Dr.Strangefate
He Sees You When You're Sleeping. He Knows When Yo
So, I'm going to come right out and say it before Planet-Man shows up with a hatchet and tries to kill me...
I saw "Wet Hot American Summer" for the first time this weekend, and while it had some great moments, some touching moments, and some ****ing hilarious moments, the film was INCREDIBLY unbalanced. It just didn't seem to know what it wanted to be.
And this is coming from someone who loves Stella. I love them at their weirdest... But the show Stella accomodated that weirdness with characters that balanced them out. They got away with the insanity....
Too much of WHAS is down to earth in the way they handle the love-stories, so that when the line gets crossed into weirdsville, its funny, but it doesn't quite work. And then at somepoint they cross over to where rather than having a normal plot expressed bizarrely, they had a bizarre plot expressed a little too close to reality. And it reaaaally seemed like David Hyde Pierce was phoning it in.
On the other hand, It made me nostalgic for camp... Which is good...
But overall I was disapointed. I expected a lot more and a much better movie than I ended up seeing.
I saw "Wet Hot American Summer" for the first time this weekend, and while it had some great moments, some touching moments, and some ****ing hilarious moments, the film was INCREDIBLY unbalanced. It just didn't seem to know what it wanted to be.
And this is coming from someone who loves Stella. I love them at their weirdest... But the show Stella accomodated that weirdness with characters that balanced them out. They got away with the insanity....
Too much of WHAS is down to earth in the way they handle the love-stories, so that when the line gets crossed into weirdsville, its funny, but it doesn't quite work. And then at somepoint they cross over to where rather than having a normal plot expressed bizarrely, they had a bizarre plot expressed a little too close to reality. And it reaaaally seemed like David Hyde Pierce was phoning it in.
On the other hand, It made me nostalgic for camp... Which is good...
But overall I was disapointed. I expected a lot more and a much better movie than I ended up seeing.
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