Originally I was supposed to see
this movie twice. Before watching it with Zack and Greg, I was
at Media Play and a friend of mine who went to my high school
saw me. She was visiting from college because of the winter break.
She asked if I wanted to go to a movie with her and her friends
and I agreed. Then I watched it with Zack and Greg! Fortunately,
it turned out when I was supposed to watch it a second time,
the guy at the ticket counter said either the film reel or the
projector was broken! We went out to eat dinner instead. This
pointless story is much more entertaining than the 90 minutes
Dude, Wheres My Car sucks out of your life. Ashton Kutcher
and Seann William Scott are stoners who wake up one morning to
discover that they remember nothing about what happened last
night. A little bit later, they remember their girlfriends
anniversaries are today. The dilemma? Their presents are in Kutchers
car! The plot gets a little bit stranger when the dudes are suspected
of carrying an alien device by several odd characters. Dude,
Wheres My Car is trying to be a comedy of the Bill &
Ted variety, although it never, ever reaches the hilarity of
either of those two films. To put it another way, the worst moment
of a Bill & Ted movie is ten times better than the best moment
in Dude, Wheres My Car? The jokes fall flat and many of
them run on for way too long, especially a bit at a Chinese drive-thru.
Im sure twenty monkeys chained to a typewriter could hammer
out a better script in two weeks! After some researching on the
Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com), I discovered that Philip
Stark, the screenwriter for Dude, Wheres My Car is also
a writer for the much funnier That 70s Show! He must have
written this one while on coffee breaks or something. The acting
is sub-par in this movie overall. Ashton Kutcher does an OK job,
but Seann William Scott is very obnoxious, especially in the
5 minute Dude, Sweet! scene between the two. Also
the actor that portrays the head of a group of geeks looks way
too much like a model on a GAP commercial than the rest of his
mega-geek squad. I give Dude, Wheres My Car *1/2 out of
****. First off, I would like to point out that Dude, Where's My Car is a horrible title for a movie. The movie follows suit. Since i assume Mat and/or Zack will give you a plot summary, i won't waste your time. This movie really had a lot of potential to be funny. It has a pretty funny plot, it has that guy from That 70s Show, and, heck, there are some genuinely funny parts in the movie. Unfortunately, you only had to watch a preview of the movie to see that this movie would not live up to this potential. This movie had maybe a handful of funny parts, and maybe a truckload of painfully unfunny parts. This movie was a painful experience. Several times throughout the movie, as Mat and Zack can vouch for, i actually found it more entertaining to examine my hand that continuing to watch the movie. I've never been to a movie for which that has been the case. This movie is not the worst movie i've ever watched, but it's the most painful movie i've seen in a long time... I give it 0.5 stars out of 4 |