Wet Hot American Summer 2001

Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune: This low-budget comedy will most likely try the patience of a paying audience with its uneven pacing, wavering tone and poor production quality. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Likably silly. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: This sloppy comedy may be a pleasant reminder of days gone by. Read more

Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: 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. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: A loving and meticulous re-creation of the last moment before American youth culture went permanently ironic. Read more

William Goss, Film.com: The skewering of underdog sports cliches, horny teen staples and Vietnam-trauma melodrama is long overdue and perfectly irreverent in execution. Read more

Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Have a good summer. Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: David Wain and Michael Showalter simply set up a bunch of stock characters in stock situations, and then repeatedly explode the cliches. Read more

Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News: This is an almost laughless bomb. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: I want to escape, / Oh, Muddah Faddah-- / Life's too short for cinematic torture. Read more

Charles Taylor, Salon.com: A spoof that manages to be even stupider than the pictures it's spoofing. Read more

Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: A sloppy, unhinged hellzapoppin that occasionally hits its targets but more often seems out of control and desperate to please. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: The writing here is rarely funny, and often trite and predictable. Read more

Dennis Harvey, Variety: Read more

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: It's a comedy without a map. Read more