Wet Hot American Summer: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 0 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 50 reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

92

A loving and meticulous re-creation of the last moment before American youth culture went permanently ironic.
Full Review » 11 years ago
A.O. Scott New York Times (Top Critic)

70

This sloppy comedy may be a pleasant reminder of days gone by.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Claudia Puig USA Today (Top Critic)

38

The writing here is rarely funny, and often trite and predictable.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Stephen Hunter Washington Post (Top Critic)

0

This is supposed to be funny? It was so depressing I almost started to cry.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

20

This movie strains so hard to be funny, it almost ruptures itself.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Jay Carr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

There's no getting around the fact that it's a hit-and-miss proposition.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Michael Atkinson Village Voice (Top Critic)

It's a comedy without a map.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Bruce Westbrook Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

34

For all its failings, Wet Hot maintains energy and high spirits over most of its length. The trouble is, such energy and spirits are not infectious, and the movies it mocks were better.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Tom Maurstad Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

0

This is an almost laughless bomb.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

25

I want to escape, / Oh, Muddah Faddah-- / Life's too short for cinematic torture.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Robert K. Elder Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

This low-budget comedy will most likely try the patience of a paying audience with its uneven pacing, wavering tone and poor production quality.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Lou Lumenick New York Post (Top Critic)

50

What the world doesn't need now is an homage to Bill Murray's 1979 summer-camp hit Meatballs.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Rick Groen Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

50

David Wain and Michael Showalter simply set up a bunch of stock characters in stock situations, and then repeatedly explode the cliches.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Charles Taylor Salon.com (Top Critic)

A spoof that manages to be even stupider than the pictures it's spoofing.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Frank Scheck Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

Simply seems like a dim-witted addition to an already undistinguished canon.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Peter Travers Rolling Stone (Top Critic)

50

The laughs are scattershot.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Rob Gonsalves eFilmCritic.com

100

This was always more or less destined to be a cult comedy, passed along enthusiastically on video/DVD.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Terry Lawson Detroit Free Press

75

Have a good summer.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Nick Schager Lessons of Darkness

59

A dumb - and fitfully funny - send-up of an already dumb genre.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Scott Weinberg eFilmCritic.com

40

A whole bunch of funny folks doing all they can to not make us laugh.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Scott Nash Three Movie Buffs

100

Destined to become a clut classic.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Marcy Dermansky About.com

60

When the jokes work, they really work.
Full Review » 9 years ago
David Nusair Reel Film Reviews

50

That whooshing sound you hear is the majority of the jokes in Wet Hot American Summer sailing right over my head.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Ron Wells Film Threat

70

Once you get into the flow with Wain and Showalter and understand what they're trying to do, the movie is pretty damn funny.
Full Review » 9 years ago
James Rocchi Netflix

60

Ensemble spoof of '80s flicks such as Meatballs and Little Darlings is a camp comedy -- in more ways than one.
Full Review » 10 years ago