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'{{Infobox film | name = Dude, Where's My Car? | image = Dude Wheres My Car movie.jpg | caption = Theatrical release poster | director = [[Danny Leiner]] | producer = Gil Netter | writer = [[Philip Stark]] | starring = [[Ashton Kutcher]]<br>[[Seann William Scott]]<br>[[Jennifer Garner]]<br>[[Marla Sokoloff]]<br>[[Kristy Swanson]] | music = David Kitay | cinematography = [[Robert M. Stevens]] | editing = Kimberly Ray | distributor = [[20th Century Fox]] | released = {{start date|2000|12|15}} | runtime = 82 minutes <!-- US DVD runtime: 82:01 --> | country = United States | language = English<br>Japanese<br>French | budget = $13 million<ref>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0242423/business</ref> | gross = $73,180,723<ref>http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=dudewheresmycar.htm</ref> }} '''''Dude, Where's My Car?''''' is a 2000 American [[stoner comedy|stoner comedy film]] directed by [[Danny Leiner]].<ref name="imdb">{{imdb title|0242423}}</ref> The film stars [[Ashton Kutcher]] and [[Seann William Scott]] as two young men who find themselves wasted and forget where they parked their car. Although the film was panned by critics, it was a modest box-office success and has since managed to develop a [[Cult film|cult following]] after its home video release. The title of the film has become a benchmark of popular culture of the time of its release. It is referenced widely in many different situations, an example being ''[[Dude, Where's My Country?]]'', the title of a political book by [[Michael Moore]] criticizing post-[[September 11 attacks|9/11]] [[United States]]. The title is also a reference to a line in the 1998 film ''[[The Big Lebowski]]''. ==Plot== Jesse Montgomery III ([[Ashton Kutcher]]) and Chester Greenburg ([[Seann William Scott]]) are two slackers who awaken, at Jesse's house, with hangovers and no memory of how they got there. Their refrigerator is filled with containers of chocolate [[pudding]], and the answering machine contains an angry message from their twin girlfriends, Wilma ([[Marla Sokoloff]]) and Wanda ([[Jennifer Garner]]), as to their whereabouts. They emerge from their home to find Jesse's car missing, and with it their girlfriends' one-year anniversary presents. This prompts Jesse to ask the film's titular question: "Dude, where's my car?" Because the twins have promised them a "special treat", which Jesse and Chester take to mean sex, the men are desperate to retrieve their car. The duo begins retracing their steps in an attempt to discover just where they left the [[Renault 5|car]]. Along the way, they encounter an angry [[transgender]] [[stripper]] (Teressa Tunney), a belligerent Chinese food drive-in restaurant speaker box operator (voice of [[Freda Foh Shen]]), discover two appropriately-worded tattoos on each other's backs, run into a group of UFO cultists led by Zoltan ([[Hal Sparks]]), a [[Standard Cantonese|Cantonese]]-speaking Chinese tailor ([[Keone Young]]), the [[Zen]]-minded Nelson ([[David Herman]]) and his [[Cannabis (drug)|cannabis]]-loving dog, the aggressive [[jock]] Tommy ([[Charlie O'Connell]]) and his musclehead friends, Tommy's girlfriend Christe Bonner ([[Kristy Swanson]]), a couple of hard-nosed police detectives, and a reclusive [[ostrich]] farmer, named Pierre ([[Brent Spiner]]). The story continues as a [[buddy film]], with elements of [[science fiction]] when the protagonists meet two groups of aliens, one group being five gorgeous, long-haired women with large breasts and wearing black jumpsuits ([[Mitzi Martin]], [[Nichole Hiltz|Nichole M. Hiltz]], Linda Kim, Mia Trudeau, and Kim Marie Johnson), the other being two [[Norway|Norwegian]] accented men wearing aerobic clothing (Christian Middelthon and David W. Bannick), searching for something called the "Continuum Transfunctioner", a mysterious and powerful device, whose mystery is only exceeded by its power (something that the protagonists are reminded of continuously throughout the film). The "Continuum Transfunctioner" is capable of destroying the universe, and becomes an additional [[MacGuffin]] in Jesse and Chester's adventure. A helpful piece of information at the very beginning of the film - though Jesse and Chester do not know it at the time - appears in the form of an [[Animal Planet]]<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0242423/quotes Memorable quotes] of the film</ref> program about how [[Tool use by animals|animals 'often use sticks as crude tools']]. Adding "save all of existence" to their list of tasks, Jesse and Chester trek onward. In an arcade, they discover that the Continuum Transfunctioner was a [[Rubik's Cube]] that Chester has been working hard to solve during most of the movie, and eventually does (thus activating it). Once the five lights on it stop flashing, the universe will be destroyed. Jesse and Chester must determine which of two sets of aliens is entitled to the device. One of the groups protects the universe, the other is there to destroy it. Both claim to be the protectors of the universe, and both state that they were with Jesse and Chester the previous night (which Jesse and Chester still cannot remember) and ask for the Transfunctioner. The two correctly choose the men, because when the men were asked what the two stoners did the night before, they correctly respond that the stoners got a hole in one at the 18th hole at a [[miniature golf]] park, and won a lifetime supply of pudding. At the last second, they deactivate the Transfunctioner, thus saving the universe. Baulked, the five alien women merge together to become a [[giantess]] ([[Jodi Ann Paterson]]), called "Super Hot Giant Alien" by Chester. The protectors intervene, attempting to banish her to [[Hoboken, New Jersey]], but are knocked out. The giantess then crawls out of the amusement center and chases Jesse and Chester, almost stepping on a table at which a young boy is having a birthday party. The cultists tell them to activate the Photon Accelerator Annihilation Beam on the Transfunctioner. However, the button that activates it is too far in to reach. At the last second, Chester remembers the nature show with the tool-using chimps and uses a straw to push the recessed button, thus destroying the alien. The two protectors erase everyone's minds concerning the events and time is reversed to the beginning of the film. The events come full circle as Jesse and Chester wake up with no memory of what happened to them much like the beginning of the film. However, they recover the car (a [[Renault 5|Renault Le Car]]), which turned out to be hidden behind a mail truck, the whole time, and salvage their relationships and discover the special treat from the girls turns out to be matching knitted caps and scarves. The protectors leave a gift for their girlfriends (and, indirectly, for the two young men): [[Breast implant|Breast Enhancement]] Necklaces. ==Cast== * [[Ashton Kutcher]] as Jesse Montgomery III * [[Seann William Scott]] as Chester Greenburg * [[Jennifer Garner]] as Wanda * [[Marla Sokoloff]] as Wilma * [[Kristy Swanson]] as Christie Boner * [[David Herman]] as Nelson * [[Hal Sparks]] as Zoltan * [[Charlie O'Connell]] as Tommy * John Toles-Bey as Mr. Pizzacoli * [[Timmy Williams]] as Jeff * [[Jodi Ann Paterson]] as Giant Hot Alien Chick * [[Freda Foh Shen]] as Chinese Foooood Voice * Teressa Tunney as Tania * Christian Middelthon and David W. Bannick as Alien Nordic Dudes * [[Keone Young]] as Mr. Li * [[Fabio Lanzoni|Fabio]] as Himself * [[Mitzi Martin]], [[Nichole Hiltz|Nichole M. Hiltz]], Linda Kim, Mia Trudeau, and Kim Marie Johnson as Alien Jumpsuit Chicks * [[Mary Lynn Rajskub]] as Zelmina * [[Pat Finn (actor)|Pat Finn]] as Officer Rick * [[Brent Spiner]] (''uncredited'') as Pierre * [[Andy Dick]] (''uncredited'') as Mark ==Critical reception== Critical reception of the film was poor. The BBC Film review gave it 1 star, calling the direction "a lame-brained travesty" and "intensely irritating" and the film as a whole "painfully unamusing".<ref>{{cite news |title=Dude, Where's My Car|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2001/01/29/dude_wheres_my_car_2001_review.shtml#rating|author=BBC Films}}</ref> [[Rotten Tomatoes]] reports that 19% of critics gave the film a positive review, based on 52 reviews with the consensus that "the movie isn't funny".<ref>{{cite news |title=Dude, Where's MyCar|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dude_wheres_my_car/|author=Rotten Tomatoes}}</ref> The review aggregator [[Metacritic]] gave the film a score of 30, based on 17 reviews.<ref name="Metacritic">{{cite news |title=Dude, Where's My Car|url=http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/dudewheresmycar|author=Metacritic}}</ref> [[The Austin Chronicle]] concluded, "Dude, Your Movie Sucks". [[USA Today]] said: "Any civilization that can produce a movie this stupid probably deserves to be hit by famine and pestilence." [[The Chicago Tribune]] said: "At the end of 83 unmerciful minutes, audiences will be exclaiming, "Dude, I can't believe I sat through that movie!?"" and the [[New York Post]] said that it was: "An almost chuckle-free mess, so amateurish and lame that the cast often has that embarrassed look you see on dogs given ridiculous haircuts."<ref name="Metacritic"/> However, the [[New York News]] did praise the "surprisingly sweet-natured pairing" of Kutcher and Scott.<ref>{{cite news |title=Dude, Where's My Car|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/index.html|author=New York News | work=Daily News}}</ref> ==Box office== Despite the poor critical reception, the film opened at #2 at the North American box office making $13,845,914 [[USD]] in its opening weekend behind ''[[What Women Want]]'', which opened at the top spot, the opening of ''Dude'' just barely beat ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas (film)|How the Grinch Stole Christmas]]''{{'}}s fifth weekend by about $40,000.<ref>http://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/chart/?yr=2000&wknd=50&p=.htm</ref> ==Soundtrack== {{See also|Dude, Where's My Car? (soundtrack)}} ==Other releases== The DVD was released on June 26, 2001 with 7 [[deleted scene|deleted and extended scenes]], an [[audio commentary]] with Kutcher, Scott, and Leiner, a behind-the-scenes featurette, the [[music video]] for Grand Theft Audio's "Stoopid Ass", TV spots, and the [[film trailer|theatrical trailer]]. On TV, when Jesse and Chester first see Christie Boner, they say her name, but when they get to "Bon-", the words are cut and the shot moves to Christie.<ref>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0242423/alternateversions</ref> ==References== {{reflist|2}} ==External links== * {{imdb title|0242423}} * {{Amg movie|228185}} * {{mojo title|dudewheresmycar}} * {{rotten-tomatoes|dude_wheres_my_car}} {{Danny Leiner}} [[Category:2000 films]] [[Category:2000s comedy films]] [[Category:2000s science fiction films]] [[Category:American comedy science fiction films]] [[Category:American teen comedy films]] [[Category:English-language films]] [[Category:Alien visitation films]] [[Category:Buddy films]] [[Category:Cannabis-related films]] [[Category:Films which are set within one day]] [[Category:Snowclones]] [[Category:20th Century Fox films]] [[cs:Hele vole, kde mám káru?]] [[da:Dude, Where's My Car?]] [[de:Ey Mann, wo is’ mein Auto?]] [[et:Kutt, kus mu auto on?]] [[es:Dude, Where's My Car?]] [[fr:Eh mec ! 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