Product: Dude Where's My Car (With Borat Preview Disc) (2000)
Rating: 4.0
Dude, Where's My Clue?
Sometimes, you just need a totally stupid movie, a movie that doesn't aspire to be anything more than it is, to make your day. Dude, this is one of those films. In fact, this and "Road Trip" are two of the films I've enjoyed most lately, because they're so on-the-surface. You don't have to sit and think about subtext; you don't have to worry about the social dilemmas we've all faced since September 11; you don't have to worry about amything more than what these two idiots did the night before, leading to the loss of their car. The film actually plays a little like "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World," in that it expands beyond the search for the car, but to the added search of a "continuum transponderer" and introduces more characters in that quest. It's an enjoyable peace of fluff. It is well-made, with a script that flows, and the two main characters are played as sympathetic idiots. The direction is such that it alerts you to the fact that the film isn't taking itself so seriously, so neither should you.