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Teens are calling out Dude Where's my Car? for sexism after watching movie for the first time

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Updated 13:03 21 Apr 2023 GMT+1Published 11:36 21 Apr 2023 GMT+1

Teens are calling out Dude Where's my Car? for sexism after watching movie for the first time

The cult classic 'stoner comedy' isn't having much luck among new audiences

Joe Harker

Joe Harker

Teenagers have been working their way through a few older movies and they've got a few problems with Dude, Where's My Car?

The 2000 comedy starring Ashton Kutcher and Seann William Scott as a couple of friends who have a wild night out and wake up the next morning unable to remember any of it.

As you might have guessed from the title they're trying to figure out what happened to their car and it basically just goes from there.

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When it came out it was critically panned, slammed as being annoying and unfunny with pretty much the only redeeming feature being a runtime of under 90 minutes.

However, audiences took to the movie more than critics and it became a cult hit which pulled in pretty decent numbers at the box office.

Dude, Where's My Car? wasn't really a hit with the critics back in the day and modern audiences aren't fans of it either.
20th Century Studios

If it came out today you can bet it'd be one of those movies where people post screenshots of the Rotten Tomatoes scores for critics and the audience in an attempt to win an argument.

Then again, if it came out today it might not do anywhere near as well as teenagers just discovering the movie have slammed it for being 'pretty racist', 'sexist' and transphobic.

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Vice wanted to know what modern teens thought of supposedly classic teen movies from decades gone by and Dude, Where's My Car? really did not stand the test of time with the teens who watched it.

One of the teens slammed the main characters as 'sexist losers' and argued that pretty much every woman in the movie 'exists for the two main characters’ sexual pleasure'.

Another said the movie was so bad they couldn't even make it to the end and didn't find it at all funny, they particularly didn't like a scene where Kutcher's character Jesse tries to order a Chinese takeaway, slamming it as 'not remotely funny and pretty racist'.

Ashton Kutcher and Seann William Scott in Dude, Where's My Car?
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Another scene in the movie which the teens called out was when the characters discovered that during the drunken night Jesse had received a lap dance from a trans woman.

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The reviewers found the character's reaction where he wipes his tongue and calls her a 'gender-challenged male' to be 'so disgusting'.

None of the teens really had anything nice to say about Dude, Where's My Car? and hoped a film like it wouldn't be made today.

The teens also went through a number of other 'classic' teen movies like American Pie and Clueless, and those also didn't have much the newer audiences could recommend.

Featured Image Credit: Photo 12 / Everett Collection Inc / Alamy

Topics: TV and Film

Joe Harker
Joe Harker

Joe graduated from the University of Salford with a degree in Journalism and worked for Reach before joining the LADbible Group. When not writing he enjoys the nerdier things in life like painting wargaming miniatures and chatting with other nerds on the internet. He's also spent a few years coaching fencing. Contact him via [email protected]

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