What is Dude, Where's My Car? about?
Two stoners wake up after a night of partying and cannot remember where they parked their car.
Does it have a happy ending? (spoiler-safe)
Yes. It lands on a happy note.
Two stoners retrace their raunchy, absurd night through a brisk, darkly comic, sci-fi mystery.
Absurdist and pulpy, with big broad humor. A party watch at a brisk pace.
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Dude, Where's My Car? parents guide
Moderate sex and nudity, which is more than most PG-13 titles carry. Beyond that, some strong language and some violence.
Our estimate: fine from about 16, higher than the PG-13 suggests, because of the sex and nudity.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- Some violence
- Some fighting or peril.
- Sex and nudity
- Moderate
- Moderate means a sex scene or nudity on screen, even brief, or sexual violence that is described or implied but never shown.
- Language
- Moderate
- Some strong profanity, a few f-words.
How we rate: an AI reads what is known about each title and tags it 0 to 3; we check the tags against a hand-rated set and correct them by hand when readers tell us. Estimates, not a scene-by-scene review. Spot a mistake? Tell us.
Cast and crew
Directed byDanny Leiner
StarringAshton Kutcher, Seann William Scott, Jennifer Garner, Marla Sokoloff, Kristy Swanson, David Herman
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