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.

Full Review | 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...

Full Review | Sep 27, 2022

The cast is unbeatable

Full Review | Original Score: 10 | Aug 12, 2020

It's one of my favorite comedies of all time

Full Review | Original Score: 10 | Aug 12, 2020

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

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | 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,

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | Mar 8, 2018

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

Full Review | Jul 19, 2014

Hilarious but raunchy parody is filled with sex, profanity.

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

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

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | Jul 28, 2011

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

Full Review | May 20, 2008

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

Full Review | Original Score: A | Jul 23, 2007

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

Full Review | 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.

Full Review | Dec 6, 2005

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

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jun 20, 2005