The setting is Camp Firewood, the year 1981. It's the last day before everyone goes back to the real world, but there's still a summer's worth of unfinished business to resolve. At the center of the action is camp director Beth, who struggles to keep order while she falls in love with the local astrophysics professor. He is busy trying to save the camp from a deadly piece of NASA's Skylab which is hurtling toward earth. All that, plus: a dangerous waterfall rescue, love triangles, misfits, cool kids, and talking vegetable cans. The questions will all be resolved, of course, at the big talent show at the end of the day.
This is supposed to be funny? It was so depressing I almost started to cry.
– Stephen Hunter,
Washington Post,
6 Jan 2002
rotten:
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.
– Bruce Westbrook,
Houston Chronicle,
8 Feb 2002
fresh:
Have a good summer.
– Terry Lawson,
Detroit Free Press,
22 Jun 2007
fresh:
The skewering of underdog sports cliches, horny teen staples and Vietnam-trauma melodrama is long overdue and perfectly irreverent in execution.