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Article: Summer Camp: Blissfully irreverent fun.('Wet Hot American Summer')(Arts and Entertainment)(Review)
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- August 27, 2001
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"Wet Hot American Summer" is a parody of the teen-coming-of-age movies of the '70s and '80s (think "Hardbodies" et al.), hardly a subject that would seem to require urgent comic attention. But let's not leap to conclusions. We'll take a funny movie from wherever it comes, and this shamefully underpromoted, gloriously silly romp made me laugh harder than any other movie this summer. Make that this year.
The creation of Michael Showalter and David Wain, of the MTV comedy troupe The State, "Wet Hot" transpires in 1981, on the closing day of Camp Firewood, a Jewish summer camp in Maine. A lot happens on this particular day, which will end, in time-honored tradition, ...