Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp

TV Mini Series
2015
15
30m

IMDb RATING

7.3/10

26K

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Parody Quirky Comedy Comedy

Follows the counselors and campers on their first day at Camp Firewood in the summer of 1981.Follows the counselors and campers on their first day at Camp Firewood in the summer of 1981.Follows the counselors and campers on their first day at Camp Firewood in the summer of 1981.

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IMDb RATING

7.3/10

26K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

4,461

127

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 6 nominations

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Trivia
In late 2014, Netflix announced that they would shoot and air this miniseries continuation of the eponymous 2001 movie featuring nearly all of the same actors and actresses. However, instead of being a sequel, the new miniseries would be a prequel, with the actors and actresses (most of whom were already up to a decade too old to play their teenage characters back in 2001) playing even younger versions of the same characters they portrayed in the first movie.

Connections
Featured in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Katie Holmes/David Wain & Michael Showalter/Sage the Gemini feat. Nick Jonas (2015)

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8/10

Great Fun

I have not seen the film this series is based on. But the series is just wonderful, charming, bizarre and a great deal of fun. Its like a parody on 80s teen movies but it ends up something much more. This alternative universe is a warm place to spend a couple of hours in. Paul Rudd is excellent as one of the lead character, he is overacting but so does everyone else in the cast, and it works. In some strange way it doesn't feel like a parody but more like a reality somewhere else. Like a movie started to become real and the characters live on far after the movie ended.

The cast is excellent and its just big names everywhere like Amy Poehler, Bradley Cooper, Jason Schwartzman, Elisabeth Banks, Chris Pine and it goes on and on. And its great fun seeing this big names and some in minor parts building up this summer camp universe.

For everyone that likes bizarre, sometimes childish but still funny movies.