Wet Hot American Summer Critic Reviews

The film keeps being yanked back from nothingness by this or that clever sendup, delivered by a small army of invigorated performers who seem to push off from one another's energy levels.Read the full review

I want to escape, Oh, Muddah Faddah -- Life's too short for cinematic torture.Read the full review

The movie is so hilariously sly about something so fetishistically trivial that at times it appears to take in an entire culture through a lens made of cheese.Read the full review

It's nice, once in a while, to come upon a movie that knows it's nothing special, proves it and doesn't care so long as its target audience feels good enough to have a refreshing beverage or two afterward.Read the full review

Lulls aside, Wain and Showalter deserve camp kudos for getting the details right.Read the full review

Harmless enough, and its team of actors so frisky and enthusiastic that it manages to deliver a modicum of laughs despite itself.Read the full review

In essence, it's a ragged collection of bits and sketches cobbled into about a dozen plots, most of which call upon the cast to do a lot of tongue and neck-spraining French kissing.Read the full review

The writing here is rarely funny, and often trite and predictable. A couple of scenes are downright disturbing:Read the full review

Nearly half over before it finds a consistent groove, let alone a decent hit-to-miss joke ratio.Read the full review