DUDE, WHERE'S MY CAR (2000) ** I have a soft spot-for whatever reason-for teen stoner movies. To say that one is stupid is probably redundant, and this one may not be more that way than most. Actually, the genre-driven premise (young stoners can't find their car in the morning or remember what happened--wander around mixing in aliens and munchies, cultists and references to sexual indulgence and perversion) isn't bad. Yeah but, everyone's supposed to be stoned all the time but the only one I saw actually smoking pot was a dog! As it gets all whacked out an' like that, I could enjoy and almost half-admire the plot twists. Unfortunately the stoner-isms are so overstated that they're irritating, excepting the updated "Who's On First?" variation. The main reason that I didn't like it better, I think without lingering on it much, is that Ashton Kutcher and Seann William Scott never really seem like they know what they're doing, as actors. Seann gloriously overplays his part in several scenes, but it's probably only enough in, you know, Mission Viejo and Paris. They never have the whiff of authenticism delivered by say Keanu Reeves in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure . Kristy Swanson is more interesting for a little while, but all the juvenile hot babe stuff is probably going to get old for adults who actually get some and are so somewhat more removed from the big mystery.
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