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Wet Hot American Summer: Comedy
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Masters of comedy David Wain (“Wet Hot American Summer”) and Ken Marino team up behind the scenes and in front of the camera to create THE TEN: a lively, smart, and irreverent film about breaking all the rules. Directed by Wain and written by Wain and Marino, THE TEN presents a series of interconnected comic sketches designed to reinterpret – and reinvent – the Ten Commandments, making them “meaningful” (and funny) to a young, hip, audience of contemporary sinners. With each story told in a different style, but containing overlapping characters and themes, the film is a grand burlesque boasting an all-star cast that puts the sin back in cinema.
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The only downfall of Wet Hot American Summer is that it sometimes plays dumb just a little too convincingly. The subplot revolving around Gene, for instance, is not an example of good comedy, instead coming across as just plain stupid. Luckily, the moments that do not work are greatly outweighed by those that do, thanks to a talented cast of underrated actors and comediennes.
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More like a cold shower on a dreary winter day, Wet Hot American Summer is meant to be a wacky — and nostalgic? — teen sex comedy about counselors on the last day of camp in 1981.
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As comedy, Wet Hot American Summer is a slapdash, fragmented affair that misses more often than hits. As parody, it fails because it attempts to satirize something ridiculous and self-parodying in itself.
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