Follow the counselors and campers on their first day at Camp Firewood in the summer of 1981. It’s the first morning at Camp Firewood, and the horny counselors are already making their moves, while something sinister is going on in the woods.
26 August 1980, Los Angeles, California, USA
17 June 1970, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
1 March 1978, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
12 May 1969, Easton, Maryland, USA
13 November 1968, Bangor, Maine, USA
20 January 1970, Westport, Connecticut, USA
19 December 1968, Long Island, New York, USA
5 January 1975, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
12 December 1991, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
28 September 1964, Newton, New Jersey, USA
4 June 1969, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
13 November 1975, Brooklyn, New York, USA
15 September 1971, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
July 27, 2015
Fans of the original are likely to enjoy this follow-up, which improves in succeeding episodes after the somewhat lackluster first entry.August 03, 2015
Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp is a rarity: a sitcom that is funnier than the movie that inspired it.August 02, 2015
Too often "jokes" were laboured in this vein, while a conveyor belt of fine actors, from Jason Schwartzman to Janeane Garofalo, were left with little space to act.July 24, 2015
A majority of the storytelling gags rise above the purely juvenile, although sometimes just barely.August 02, 2015
Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp gets a lot of mileage out of funny names, ridiculous pop culture references and wildly inconsistent accents.July 22, 2015
Beyond the inside jokes, WHAS:FDoC succeeds because it doubles up on the nothing-is-sacred promise of the film, and proceeds to absorb every beat, cliché, or overused trope ever put to film in its [Andy voice:] "whatever, man" orbit.July 23, 2015
Fear not, Wet Hot fans: First Day of Camp is fantastic.July 23, 2015
Clearly, Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp still has the gloriously raunchy, proudly stupid comic tone that made the movie a cult hit.July 22, 2015
Good things can sometimes come out of that sort of chaos, but that chaos could use some boundaries.August 02, 2015
The 8-episode series mostly succeeds by sheer force of will. The viewers are so bombarded by jokes that something is bound to tickle you eventually-though truth be told it may take awhile.