Fifteen years after the original movie, our friends at Camp Firewood are back in Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp. Launched earlier this month, the eight-part Netflix series is nonsense of the best order that is, in some respects, superior to the film.

In other ways, though, it's almost unbearable.

Below, I dig though the best and worst First Day of Camp has to offer.

THE BEST

 1. Paul Rudd is 16 years old.

I suppose it’s not such a stretch because, um, when doesn’t Paul Rudd act like he’s 16? That’s the entire point of his career. (Plus, the man does NOT age.)

But inviting the whole cast of now-fortysomething actors back to squeeze themselves into the old outfits is a stroke of absurd genius. (Lesson from Elizabeth Banks: The trick to looking 16 is pulling back four strands of hair and turning to the side.)

Having these middle-aged people running around shouting “Wow! My first kiss!” is an A+ with me. The only problem: It’s still just a little too close to reality. We all remember pretending the cast of Glee looked believable as sophomores.

2. Janeane Garofalo saves a talking can of mixed vegetables—and the world

No one can bend at a 45-degree angle and urgently shout “OH MY GOD!” about government secrets quite like Janeane. Her aggressively exaggerated panic is 99% of what makes WHAS's send up of corporate espionage and conspiracies so damn hilarious.

The moment Garofalo and Jason Schwartzman hack into the government mainframe to uncover that page of "truth numbers" is when everything turns magical. The robot boy running into court with last-minute evidence (“Evidence, you say?!? I’ll allow it!”) so that Michael Cera can become the hottest lawyer of the year is just a bonus.

What else are you supposed to do when your beloved gets turned into talking mixed vegetables by toxic goop?

 3. Amy Poehler’s costume.

That’s all. Seriously. The world ended because of this little number. The belt really brings it together.

4. There’s actually, you know, a plot this time.

Wet Hot the movie might as well be called The ADHD Story for the way it bopped from topic to topic.

I worried whether the series could hold up for eight whole episodes, since it barely held together as a movie. But it did. In fact, the show gets better as it goes along, establishing a few major storylines and allowing each to develop and pay off via musicals and explosive court cases.

There are actual beginnings and endings to character arcs (all ridiculous gibberish, but they exist), without giving away the sense of messy, carefree silliness that made the movie fun in the first place.

5. “Zoot Suit” is the greatest love story ever Bradley Cooper-ed.

“Let’s have Bradley Cooper and Michael Ian Black fall in love while waddling around in a giant two-man zoot suit.” Correct. I know the word hero gets thrown around a lot these days, but we can all agree that whoever spoke that sentence is truly the hero of our age.

Sadly nothing in First Day of Camp quite lives up to the pool-shed sex scene from the movie, the show makes up for it with a backstage first kiss and the completely wonderful and ridiculous Ben/McKinley origin story we didn’t know we needed.

Somehow, it just had to involve conjoined twins singing a duet about how cute they look: “I had no idea until I put on the zoot suit” is the new “I wish I knew how to quit you.”

 6. Electro/City

I need to see the cast perform a full-length version of Electro/City. Immediately. The camp’s one-day musical extravaganza tells the moving story of all the greatest things in life: One-legged unitards, bedazzled police shorts, aggressive high-school acting, dramatic hand-ography, and daredevil figure-skating holds. All the Emmys. (And Tonys.)

Everything about Electro/City is so fanatically theatrical that I just want to squeeze it forever. But a special shout out goes to John Early’s musical maven Logan, whose fabulous “I GOT THIS” of an audition, theatrical hyper-seriousness and painfully accurate facial expressions steal the show.

THE WORST

1. A child???? Get rid of it!

What are these strange creatures? Why are they so small?

While our beloved gang defeats Ronald Reagan through the power of song and friendship (Hooray!), First Day of Camp also tries to introduce a fairly straightforward coming-of-age story about one of the boy campers having a crush on a girl and dealing with his spawn-of-Satan bunkmate. (Uh... meh?)

The age-appropriate actors do a perfectly fine job, but it’s not funny. It just sits there, wasting time that could have been better spent watching Electro/City. No one should ever not be watching Electro/City.

2. Coop, Donna, and Yaron

It’s somehow fitting that, with a million different storylines, we would end up spending the most time with the one that falls the flattest. This old love triangle routine (manipulative girl, puppy dog boy, exciting Israeli) doesn’t have the same joyfulness, energy, or over-the-top dynamic of the others. It’s long. And repetitive. And frustrating. Not even the occasional turd joke can save it.

It’s tough to squeeze eight episodes of content out of “you’re wearing a dumb hat because girls,” and it doesn’t really make it.

 3. They all got too famous.

On the one hand, it’s amazing that the show was able to corral so many movie stars—but that also means a few of them suddenly disappear for episodes at a time, leaving some “huh?”-shaped holes in major scenes.

Poehler evaporates three-quarters of the way through for no apparent reason, and, at one point, Bradley Cooper just goes, “Hi, I wear a ski mask now so my face doesn’t have to be in these scenes!” (I admit, that one was kind of funny. But still.)

What about you? What are your highs and lows from Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp?