Dude, Where's My Car?

Dude, Where's My Car?

It's with some pride that I review Dude Where's My Car?, knowing that almost every movie critic judged  it one of the worst films of 2000 and panned it as lame-brained, stoner, teen nonsense. 

And your point is?

Dude, Where's My Car? has got a plot, a really simple plot,admittedly, but it's there. Stoners Jesse (Ashton Kutchner) and Chester (Sean William Scott) wake up after a wild night of shibby excess and ask the question:

Dude, Where's My Car?

Now, losing a car after shibby madness is not such a big deal but it is a big deal when the two really qiite nice dimwits remember that the car contained anniversary presents for their long suffering girlfriends, Wanda (Jennifer Garner) and Wilma (Marla Sokoloff) who the boys know they don't deserve because they're "...such sucky boyfriends...".

The only clue they have to what happened is that they have a fridge full of puddings.

Now if this is sounding like Dumb And Dumber, let me assure you, this ain't. Dude, Where's My Car? is a colorful crazy dream of immense imagination, in which the two heroes attempt to solve the puzzle and find their car. If I was an intellectual, I'd say it was a metaphor for something much deeper but I'm not, so I see it as more an excuse for ridiculous, harmless, juvenile fun.

Along the way Jesse & Chester encounter:

• a transvestite stripper who Jesse has an encounter with
• bullies
• a party full of cute babes in bikinis
• Fabio
• a shibby dealer who talks like Yoda and his shibbying dog 
• an infuriating Chinese checkout chick
• alien hot chicks with large breasts
• gay Scandinavian alien dudes
• Zoltan (Hal Sparks) and alien-awaiting nerds dressed in plastic-bubble suits
• a malicious lady police clerk
• a gang of mean ostriches
• a gay, seemingly-very-willing-to-be-there dungeon captive
• a 50-foot mean alien babe
• their angry pizza parlor boss

...I'm sure you get the picture. Mindless but witty and moving at a considerable pace, Dude, Where's My Car? is something of a cult success with my teenage sons and I have to admit, I've seen it several times and still find it funny, very funny in parts.

It's stupid, yes, but incredibly imaginative and any movie that resolves why you'd have a fridge full of puddings certainly gets my vote.

"...if you have any doubts about how great this movie is, the maybe try (shibbying) and watching it. You'll know what I'm talking about. It actually makes sense if you try it that way..." Amazon Reviewer Joey McDonel.

For dedicated fans of Dude, Where's My Car?, there's the shibby t-shirt, which is probably a must-have if you're into that kind of thing. 

Dude, Where's My Car? t-shirt

see also:

• wikipedia: Dude, Where's My Car? movie