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Dude, Where's My Car?

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Dude, Where's My Car? (2000)

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Reviews Counted:14

Fresh:4

Rotten:10

Average Rating:4.3/10

Consensus: The movie isn't funny, the plot is too thin, and the production values feel more like a TV sitcom than a movie.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] language and some sex and drug-related humor

Runtime: 83 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:Dec 15, 2000 Wide

Box Office: $44,992,961

Synopsis: Jesse (Ashton Kutcher) and Chester (Seann William Scott) got really wasted last night. The fridge is packed with pudding, their girlfriends--"The Twins"--are ticked off, and somehow Jesse's car has... Jesse (Ashton Kutcher) and Chester (Seann William Scott) got really wasted last night. The fridge is packed with pudding, their girlfriends--"The Twins"--are ticked off, and somehow Jesse's car has disappeared. So the hapless stoners set out to find the car, which happens to have their girlfriends' anniversary presents in it. But they soon discover that losing the car isn't half the story. High school hottie Christie (Kristy Swanson) is mysteriously hot for Jesse, Chester is a favorite customer at the local topless club, and they owe a suitcase full of money to a transvestite stripper. On top of all that, they're being pursued by a minivan full of geeks, horny "space babes," and a couple of "totally gay" Scandinavian dudes--all trying to find the "continuum transfunctioner," the device that can save or destroy the universe. Duuude.... DUDE's comic formula is pretty simple: throw the dudes in one bizarre situation after another and watch them goof their way out. Given the movie's PG-13 rating, it all lands on the lighter side of the teen-comedy spectrum, and if angry ostriches, donut-loving cops, a 50-foot bimbo in a miniskirt, and a pot-smoking dog sound like a good combo, DUDE has got a deal for you. [More]

Starring: Ashton Kutcher, Seann William Scott, Jennifer Garner, Marla Sokoloff

Starring: Ashton Kutcher, Seann William Scott, Jennifer Garner, Marla Sokoloff, David Herman, Christian Middelthon, David W. Bannick, Charlie O'Connell, Kristy Swanson, Teressa Tunney, Mitzi Martin, Nichole M. Hiltz, Linda Kim, Mia Trudeau, Kim Marie Johnson, Bill Chott, Michael Ray Bower

Director: Danny Leiner

Director: Danny Leiner
Screenwriter: Philip Stark
Producer: Wayne Rice, Gil Netter, Broderick Johnson, Andrew A. Kosove
Composer: David Kitay
Studio: 20th Century Fox

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02/07/01
Robert Denerstein
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Denver Rocky Mountain News
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Daft and lovable and even kinda daring, Dude deserves its truly clueless studio's belabored support.

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12/27/00
Jessica Winter
Jessica Winter
Village Voice
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The definition of aiming low is when the John Hughes film you're ripping off is Weird Science.

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12/25/00
Owen Gleiberman
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Entertainment Weekly
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Gratingly unfunny.

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12/19/00
Michael Rechtshaffen
Michael Rechtshaffen
Hollywood Reporter
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Operates in a limbo between the relentlessly moronic and the legitimately entertaining, while almost solving the vehicular existentialism suggested by its title.

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12/19/00
Wesley Morris
Wesley Morris
San Francisco Chronicle
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Following these two clumsy, unpretentious doofuses as they jump from one brisk gag to another is a gentle, cozy experience, especially if you compare these harmless vignettes to the brutal and vitriolic spirit of, say, a comedy by the Farrelly brothers.

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12/18/00
Ernesto Lechner
Ernesto Lechner
Los Angeles Times
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To call this humor politically incorrect would be to unjustly credit its creators with any sort of ideology that could then be violated.

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12/18/00
Jan Stuart
Jan Stuart
Newsday
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I was embarrassed that I enjoyed a movie so juvenile and stupid. But then I thought, 'Dude!' and I was OK.

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12/18/00
Andy Weil
Andy Weil
Houston Chronicle
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An almost chuckle-free mess, so amateurish and lame that the cast often has that embarrassed look you see on dogs given ridiculous haircuts.

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12/18/00
Jonathan Foreman
Jonathan Foreman
New York Post
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A one-joke motion picture, and that one joke rapidly grows tiresome.

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12/18/00
James Berardinelli
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A surprisingly sweet, mild-mannered movie for a teenage comedy spoof, and that's not a good thing.

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12/18/00
Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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The majority of its gags fall woefully flat, and its brief, 83-minute running time often seems to drag for an eternity.

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12/18/00
Gary Dowell
Gary Dowell
Dallas Morning News
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Pic is transparently thin -- even at just 83 minutes, it feels desperately padded -- but fitfully amusing.

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12/16/00
Joe Leydon
Joe Leydon
Variety
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None, repeat, none of this is funny.

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12/15/00
Cody Clark
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The stupidity and the failed gags start piling up, and Dude, Where's My Car? becomes just another lame slacker comedy.

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12/15/00
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Film.com
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