Last Updated on 04:34 AM by Lilliana Tseka
I really don’t how to start writing for this series ‘Wet Hot American Summer” and how to explain that one shinny day in Hollywood someone woke up and said… hey, let’s make a prequel to this movie we created 15 years ago with exactly the same actors that everyone or almost everyone are the It names on Hollywood.
Netflix never stops to amaze us and give us material to stand in front of our screens and do marathons to finish each TV series season. And for those that leave on Mars and not here with us on this planet, Netflix is an online channel service – not like our own here in Greece… I mean real online channel service – that releases the whole TV series season episodes at once… of course with the right amount of monthly subscription. It’s in some way the evolution of cable TV.
After this small Netflix bio, back to this incredible series. For those that haven’t seen the 2001 movie, the scenery is set to a camp back in 1981 and so as the series. The difference as we said before is that we are talking about a prequel and to be exact on the arrival day or even better the first hours of this first day in camp “Firewood”.
Yes, some things are going to seem crazy. Yes, it won’t make any sense whatsoever and half of the jokes won’t even be jokes, however seeing all these stars having roles of thirteen and fifteen year old teenagers although they are at their 40’s or even 50’s is quite funny. At first the cast team will just leave you speechless because you kind of wonder who doesn’t participate, as almost the whole Hollywood passes through your eyes even for a small guest, Bradley Cooper, Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation, Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Ken Marino, Christopher Meloni are only a few of the names.
Of course this cast will make you instantly wonder where they found the time and be there. So I did a small research and I found that there were in fact problems, especially with Bradley Cooper that at the moment had a play on Broadway and had his nomination for the Oscars. So the movie went to Bradley and did in one take whole of Bradley’s scenes the last day of the production. Quite a few times you can understand that but it doesn’t really creates such a fuzz because his role doesn’t really interact so much with the other cast members.
To convey such a film into the small screen is not an easy task and considering that we weren’t leaving in America the time that the film’s myth was been created. Certainly the series problem is not really that, because we’ve nurtured ourselves with such films. Maybe it’s the pointless extravagance or even their choice of keeping the original actors , not taking in consideration nowadays status.
I literally try to understand whether I really liked the series or not… I think that we are having a love it or hate it situation here, as we are talking about a stretched TV series. Ok, I know what you are going to say The Naked Gun was stretched, so were Airplane but you laugh your heart out each and every time you see them. It’s weird, that’s the word I’m searching for, they tried so hard to make it funny that became weird, maybe with lots of drugs and booze the movie becomes clearer. Now that I’m thinking about it referring myself to drugs and booze kind of gives me the idea that I didn’t really went crazy about it. However I still find the idea ingenious, innovative and bold from Netflix’s part.