Dude, Where's My Car?

Perhaps I’ve completely missed the point, or maybe I’m just too old, but Dude, Where’s My Car? has got to be one of the worst films I’ve ever seen. It has surpassed The Out of Towners in its idiocy; it has exceeded Stigmata in its ability to irritate me, and it is even less interesting than Battlefield Earth. Its only redeeming factor is its length, which is only an hour an a half, but seems much longer. The story is about two dudes who wake up one morning with no memory of the night before. They can’t remember where their car is, and their car contains some anniversary gifts that they have to give to their girlfriends that day. The dudes go out in search of any clues they can find to help them figure out what happened last night, so that they can find the car and retrieve the gifts.

Now, it’s clear to me that the film is making fun of itself, and making fun of other films such as Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure and Wayne’s World, but the kind of fun it makes is not at all funny. It’s actually rather tedious. Consider the scene where the dudes try to order a Chinese meal from a drive-in. After completing the order, the waitress’s voice continues to ask "And then?". They repeat the order, carefully explaining that they don’t want to order anything else. And again, the voice asks "And then?". As if this isn’t enough of the same old joke (which is not even funny), they proceed to reiterate the order again, and you guessed it — still the same reply. This just keeps going on and on until it becomes quite embarrassing. This endless repetition of stupid jokes that don’t work is the main problem in the film. Another example: a group of alien women (yes, that’s right) when asked "who are you guys?" constantly reply "we are not guys, we are hot chicks".

The film is so not funny that it resorts to looking for laughs in the most inappropriate places. I personally don’t think it’s funny to make fun of blind children, but this film apparently does. I’m not a fan of political correctness, and I’m not easily offended, but this film tries hard to offend. It has a crude fixation with women’s breasts and other parts of their anatomy, and makes subtle fun of homosexuality.