Wet Hot has endured based on its particular humor—that of sketch-comedy cohort The State. This means, of course, that the best jokes go on far too long. See: Paul Rudd's endless temper tantrum at being asked not to leave his lunch on the cafeteria floor.

| Jan 22, 2025

Wet Hot American Summer only seems to get better with time. Part of this can be chalked up to its stellar cast...

| Sep 27, 2022

The cast is unbeatable

| Original Score: 10 | Aug 12, 2020

It's one of my favorite comedies of all time

| Original Score: 10 | Aug 12, 2020

Wet Hot American Summer is gleefully, wonderfully stupid in the absolute best way.

| Aug 4, 2020

But like many a "Saturday Night Live" gag, Wet Hot American Summer also can overstay its welcome and drag interminably on, its joke about the longest day in the world backfiring as it moves sputteringly toward a resolution.

| Jan 30, 2020

But even with its tackiness arched at an ironic angle, "Wet Hot American Summer's" long-term fate is to become at best a last-minute accessory to a Blockbuster night of pizza and beverages.

| Mar 31, 2019

The title of this inventive absurdist comedy (2001) is meant to mislead-it's not a sex movie but a parody, and the loose feel is part of its genius.

| Mar 31, 2019

Structured only by its time frame (the last day of camp) and total commitment to casualness, the movie feels tossed off in the most appealing way,

| Mar 31, 2019

This shamefully underpromoted, gloriously silly romp made me laugh harder than any other movie this summer...this blissfully unimportant movie starts in a deceptively low key, gradually unveiling its total lunacy.

| Mar 8, 2018

Where is Jason Voorhess, the hockey-masked killer of Camp Crystal Lake, when you really need him?

| Jul 19, 2014

Hilarious but raunchy parody is filled with sex, profanity.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 8, 2014

...has its moments, but considering the cast there should be far more of them.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 23, 2012

The skewering of underdog sports clichés, horny teen staples and Vietnam-trauma melodrama is long overdue and perfectly irreverent in execution.

| Jul 28, 2011

Fairly hilarious -- if still scattershot -- final reels will leave auds feeling they've gotten their money's worth.

| May 20, 2008

This was always more or less destined to be a cult comedy, passed along enthusiastically on video/DVD.

| Original Score: A | Jul 23, 2007

The writers decided to load the film with a school busload of one-joke characters.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 14, 2007

Have a good summer.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 22, 2007

Few genres could lend themselves less readily to satire, much less a satire arriving 20 years too late... [but] one quality of comedy is that if it's funny, it needs no further justification, and Wet Hot American Summer is funny enough.

| Dec 6, 2005

A dumb - and fitfully funny - send-up of an already dumb genre.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 20, 2005