![]() I doubt the writing and humor got 3 times better. The new Netflix series has 92% critics’ approval rating. ![]() It has a 32% critics’ approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and only grossed $295,000 at the box office. Upon its release in 2001, WHAS was not well-received. I don’t know why, but people laughing at jokes can be funnier than the jokes themselves. The audience cracking up over every single joke is as hysterical as Shemper himself. Showalter pulls double duty (actually triple duty), as the show’s host, a hilarious Alan Shemper. The preppy Susie (Amy Poehler) and Ben (Bradley Cooper) organize the camp’s annual talent show, taking place that night. She tells him that he can call her “Beth” after he calls her… “Beth.” It’s some of Rudd’s finest work.Īnother big story involves Camp Director Beth (Janeane Garofalo) romancing Professor Henry Newman (David Hyde Pierce). He lets a camper drown on his watch, and gives major sass when picking up a chair and a food tray from the floor. He openly cheats on her with Lindsay (Elizabeth Banks), complete with barbecue sauce all over her face. Unfortunately though, Katie is dating Andy (Paul Rudd), also known as the biggest douche on the planet. Co-writer of the movie, Michael Showalter, plays Cooper, who has a tragic bowl cut, and is in love with Katie (Marguerite Moreau). It’s the last day of summer camp at Camp Firewood. ![]() In honor of the 8-episode prequel Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, which premiered on Netflix earlier this week, I look back on the original cult classic, and what makes a movie a cult classic. Where would we be today without October 3rd being a national holiday or Emma Stone’s priceless reaction to lobster?īasically, I’m a fan of every aspect of this movie. Did Travis Birkenstock (Breckin Meyer) ever find his Cranberries CD? I certainly hope so, but I’m just glad that another 90s alternative band gets a shout out.Ĭlueless paved the way for movies like Mean Girls (2004) and Easy A (2010). Cher gets existential, mentioning a fellow cult classic, Twin Peaks, and Christian references my 1950s boyfriend, James Dean. I mean, the lead and her best friend are named after famous singers who now do infomercials. In general, the references in this movie are killer. And can we bring back calling girls “Bettys” and boys “Baldwins”? Much better than “on fleek” and “bae.” My only other gripe: Why no dancing from Leslie - and from Vincente Minelli, that peerless director of dance sequences? I guess Lerner and Lowe must have been more in control of this one, and weren't of a mind for rug-cutting.And can I mention how great the lingo in Clueless is? “As if” has become a classic and a “Monet” sounds straight out of Parks and Recreation’s Tom Haverford’s vocabulary. ![]() And it remains superior - both "politically" and as a film - to My Fair Lady, where Eliza is implied to return and submit herself to Rex Harrison at the end, whereas Gigi at least implies that it's Gaston rather than Gigi who is going to have to change his ways. This is the only "politically" unsatisfactory thing about the movie, however. Of course, this had to be soft-pedalled for the American audience - hence the ending, which conforms nicely with middle-class morality on this side of the Atlantic. It wasn't always pretty, but there was reality in her writing about relations between the sexes that hasn't lost its relevance. She empowered women, at a time when there just weren't many other opportunities for them to establish real independence (our current categories of PC and non-PC wouldn't have meant much then). She celebrated the deals and compromises within a sexist order that allowed a lucky few high-class prostitutes to become well-to-do, independent women in fin-de-siecle Paris (and a lot of others to at least make some kind of living). But let's face it, this is Americanized Collette. Don't get me wrong, I love it - Leslie Caron and the whole cast.
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