Amy Poehler's 7 Best And 7 Worst Movies Ranked

Written and directed by Michael Showalter and David Wain, "Wet Hot American Summer" is a raunchy spoof of 1980s comedies like "Meatballs" and "Porky's." The amount of talent represented by the large cast is staggering — along with Amy Poehler as over-the-top drama counselor Susie, the cast includes Bradley Cooper (in his feature film debut), Christopher Meloni, Elizabeth Banks, and Paul Rudd to name a few.

It's 1981 and Camp Firewood is about to close for the summer, but the horny college-aged camp counselors want last-minute romance. It won't be so easy to find though, as they're busy putting on epic musical productions and trying to save the camp from a piece of a NASA space station that's beelining towards Earth.

While Amy Poehler wasn't yet a household name when "Wet Hot American Summer" first came out, she owns every scene she's in — we dare you not to laugh each time she utters, "How DARE you." In the decades since the film's 2001 release, "Wet, Hot American Summer" has developed a sizable cult-following (per The AV Club). 

However, the movie was initially deemed a flop by critics, although audiences strongly disagreed (per Rotten Tomatoes). Variety declared the movie "nearly half over before it finds a consistent groove, let alone a decent hit-to-miss joke ratio." Meanwhile, Roger Ebert eviscerated the film in his 1-star review that spoofs Allan Sherman's "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh" camp song, in which he called the movie "cinematic torture."