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"Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp" sees the
counselors and campers at the start of summer 1981. The original
film, which did not fare so well at the box office nor with
critics upon release, was set on the last day of that year's
summer camp.
Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler, Janeane Garofalo, David Hyde Pierce and
Bradley Cooper reprise their old roles and are joined by new
faces such as Kristen Wiig and John Hamm.
Rudd, 46, currently in cinemas as superhero "Ant-Man", said
audiences can expect "more ridiculousness".
"It's just the right amount of absurd and silliness," he said in
a video handout of the series premiere in New York on Wednesday
night. "It was just such a cool thing to go back and re-enter
that whole world ... It's a great thing to revisit."
A trailer for the Netflix series gives a taste of the chaotic
scenes at the camp starting with Rudd's character Andy making an
entrance on a motorbike.
"... The first movie tanked so bad when it first came out, then
people started to discover it and it became this proprietary
thing that people showed each other," the film's director and
series co-creator David Wain said.
"It kept growing and growing through word of mouth over the
years, it's so gratifying."
"Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp" launches on Netflix
on July 31.
(Writing by Marie-Louise Gumuchian in London; Editing by Mark
Heinrich)
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