Product: Dude Where's My Car (With Borat Preview Disc) (2000)
Rating: 3.0
Dude...
Hmm... okay... where to begin...This is the kind of self-babble I'm left with in trying to think of things to write about in this, my review of "Dude, Where's My Car?," a movie so ridiculously conceived and scripted, so reundant in it gags and one-liners, so absolutely mind-melting that to watch it is to realize a new level of stupidity. But that doesn't mean it's not fun.There's the most basic of plots: Jesse and Chester, two stoners whose vocabulary consists of relentless utterings of "dude" and "sweet," wake up one morning to realize that Jesse's car is missing, and they have no recollection of the previous night. As they set out to find the car, they begin to piece together the silly, unbelievably outrageous events of the previous night, from a tryst in a strip club with a transsexual stripper who gave them a suitcase full of cash, to encounters with different groups of nerdy, busty, and macho aliens, all demanding from them a device known as the continuum transfunctioner.And that's it, the entire plot of the movie, mixed in with some truly hearty laughs and some good yet goofy acting from two guys who know what they're doing. The movie works for the simple reason that Ashton Kutcher (Jesse) and Seann William Scott (Chester) do such a good job of acting completely stupid that they sell us on the whole stoner appearance of the movie. A film like this can't work without the mentality to back it up, and the absence of that mentality is just what it needs.There are laughs, and while some of them are forced, there are those that succeeded in getting more than just a chuckle out of me. The two guys' mentality is one gag, but the movie also makes us laugh by playing their girlfriends, known as "The Twins," to be just as air-headed as they are. A chinese fast food drive-thru results in an hilarious explosion of anger, while the whole girls-with-big-hoo-hoos mentality runs throughout.There's really not a whole lot more to say about this movie... it's stupid, it's ridiculous... it makes its characters out to be heroes in the most contrived situations imaginable, and there's no shortage of brainless dialogue and actions. But, for what it's worth, it's not a total waste of time, and I found myself laughing in all the right places.