--- title: "Wet Hot American Summer Goes Racing" description: "David Wain and Michael Showalter go pseudo-McQueen in an automotive romp." date: "2016-03-28" modified: "2016-03-28" authors: - name: "Ben Keeshin" link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/ben-keeshin" url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/wet-hot-american-summer-goes-racing-2" categories: - "News" tags: - "movies" --- # Wet Hot American Summer Goes Racing The calling card of any Michael Showalter/David Wain production is humor so multivalent, audiences don't so much laugh at punchlines as giggle nervously as they're enveloped in a swirling cloud of oddities. The trailer for [*Second Sound Barrier*](), part of a marketing campaign for Robert Graham cologne, is no different. Filmed through a haze of Seventies-style film noise, *Second Sound Barrier* is exactly what you'd expect from the guys behind *Wet Hot American Summer* and *Stella*: A beautifully nonsensical, pseudo-McQueen automotive romp about three men, each named after bravery, racing ridiculous cars towards an nonexistent physical goal. Our heroes—Thelonious Courage, Andrew Michael Fortitude, and Roger Valour—are three speed-obsessed racers obsessed with "pushing beyond those limits that mankind has already pushed beyond." Summoned to a creepy mansion, Lady Billionaire (Juliette Lewis) tasks the trio with breaking the elusive second sound barrier to save her life. Then she dresses as a table. Then an old man. Trying to describe the thing is impossible. If you like the duo's wonderfully off-kilter brand of laughs—and one-liners with all the swagger of classic racing mantras with even less of the sense—take a gander. As a bonus, you'll see a Mercedes 240D, BMW i8 and Porsche 356 racing down a runway—the first and last time in film history that group will ever meet. https://youtube.com/embed/OGJ4rQXxvVc ## Author Ben Keeshin is a former staff writer for Maxim, and before that, contributed writing to the digital sides of Road & Track and Vanity Fair. ### Author social links [Twitter]()