Product: Dude Where's My Car (With Borat Preview Disc) (2000)
Rating: 1.0
Dude, Where's the Script?
Okay, I promised myself that I wouldn't expend too much energy in writing this review after having seen this film (for free, thankfully) on Showtime, but I probably will anyway, so here goes: DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR? is one of the least funny so-called 'comedies' that I have seen in the past few years. It's not just that it's a stupid movie (after all, what else would one expect from a film titled DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR?), it's that it's just not funny. A famous reviewer once said that although there are bad horror films and bad dramas, there is no kind of film that is worse than a bad comedy. I have to agree with this philosophy--and DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR? is a very painful example of it.Since humor is basically a subjective concept in the first place, let me illustrate my reaction to this movie with a comparison: I laughed throughout every single scene of BLAZING SADDLES, MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL, AIRPLANE!, THE NAKED GUN: FROM THE FILES OF POLICE SQUAD!, and SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, LONGER & UNCUT. I laughed most of the time during AMERICAN PIE and SCARY MOVIE. I laughed occasionally while watching SLUMS OF BEVERLY HILLS and ACE VENTURA: PET DETECTIVE. I chuckled sporadically at THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY and DUMB AND DUMBER. I think I kind of snickered once or twice during one scene of DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR? You get the idea.Anybody wanting to see this movie because of how funny Ashton Kutcher is as the terminally clueless stoner Michael Kelso in the very-funny TV hit "That '70's Show", please stop yourself right now. Although Kutcher does play a fairly similar character in this movie, if you expect the dialogue to be as smart and funny as on his TV show, you're going to be very disappointed. This is a flick that assumes that people will find words like "shibby", "dude" and "sweet" funny--especially when repeated over and over and *over* again. Well I didn't, you sweet shibby dude. Oh, and I'm sorry but, no matter how many times the phrase "continuum transfunctioner" is spoken--at least 50 times in this movie, believe it or not--it just doesn't get funny, either. Oh well...DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR? is probably not the unfunniest comedy I've ever seen (that distinction would go out equally to the mega-bombs HEART CONDITION and THE CABLE GUY), but it's pretty well up there in the Top Ten!P.S.: the word "shibby" never caught on as the new 'cool word' the way the director and screenwriter had obviously thought that it would. Thank God for small favors--eh, dude? :)