Dude, Where's My Car?
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Dude, Where's My Car? is a 2000 comedy film in which two slackers wake up from a night of wild partying to find their car missing.
The movie received poor reviews from critics, even from many who stated that they enjoy dumb movies. However, Dude, Where's My Car? has managed to develop a cult following.
It was directed by Danny Leiner, and starred Ashton Kutcher and Seann William Scott.
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Cast
The Dudes:
Ashton Kutcher (Jesse) Seann William Scott (Chester)
The Girlfriends:
Marla Sokoloff (Wanda) Jennifer Garner (Wilma)
The UFO cult:
Hal Sparks (Zoltan)
Plot
At the movie's outset, Jesse (Kutcher) and Chester (Scott) awaken with hangovers and no memory of how they got there. Their house is filled with containers of pudding, and there's an angry message from their girlfriends on the answering machine. 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 title question: "Dude, where's my car?"
The duo begins retracing their steps in an attempt to discover just where they left the car. Along the way, they encounter a transgender stripper, UFO cultists, and a reclusive ostrich farmer. The film continues as a buddy film, but takes on a few elements of science fiction when "the dudes" meet two groups of aliens searching for the "Continuum Transfunctioner", a device capable of destroying the universe.
Adding "save all of existence" to their list of tasks, Jesse and Chester trek onward. By the end of the film, they have recovered the car, salvaged their relationships, and discovered just where all the pudding came from. And the universe isn't destroyed, which is pretty sweet.
Where's the car?
What truly happened to Jesse's titular car is never revealed. It was originally impounded, then sold at a police auction to a militant ostrich farmer. Jesse and Chester are captured by him for trespassing, but he later agrees to let them go and give Jesse his car. However, when the ostrich farmer arrives at his garage (where he parked the car 5 minutes before) the car has disappeared without a trace.
When the climax of the movie occurs, the benevolent aliens rewind time so that everything resets to the events of the beginning of the movie, except this time Jesse's car is parked in front of his house.
How the car disappeared from the ostrich farmer's garage in the original timeline and where it went is left completely unexplained.
Sequel
A planned sequel, Seriously Dude, Where's My Car? has reportedly been cancelled after Scott refused to take part.
