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By Patrick Bromley, About.com Guide to Comedians

Overlooked DVD of the Week: 'Wet Hot American Summer'

Monday November 10, 2008

To celebrate the release of director David Wain's newest film, Role Models, this week's Overlooked DVD looks back at his first effort: the 2002 summer camp spoof Wet Hot American Summer.

Minute for minute, joke for joke, Wet Hot American Summer is the funniest movie in a decade. Created by two members of the 1990s sketch comedy troupe The State, David Wain and Michael Showalter, the movie picks up the mantle where that show left off. Like The State, Wet Hot American Summer is a movie that manages to function both as a celebration of lowbrow humor and a sly commentary on lowbrow humor. (Read more...)

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