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Review: 'Dukes of Hazzard' is roadkill
Cheesecake, car chases and idiocy
By Paul Clinton
Friday, August 5, 2005 Posted: 1954 GMT (0354 HKT)

Burt Reynolds, as Boss Hogg, crows over the incarceration of Bo and Luke Duke ( Seann William Scott and Johnny Knoxville ).

(CNN) -- "The Dukes of Hazzard" is a prime example of a sad Hollywood habit: taking a popular -- but rather dumb -- TV show and turning it into a totally stupid and meaningless film.

This flick is a car wreck with boobs.

Now, let me just say, if your idea of a good film is a nearly naked Jessica Simpson and completely over-the-top chase scenes, then this movie is for you.

If, however, you're not a teenage boy with raging hormones -- and you like films with an actual plot (instead of walking and talking clichés) -- this movie may put you into a coma.

The storyline is so dumb and predictable it wouldn't have even made the grade for an episode of the original TV series.

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/05/review.hazzard/index.html

>. Man, am i glad i saw a preview of this dud before i wasted my money on such kitschy Hollywood tripe.

[itaewonguy]

soon as I heard they were making it into a movie and jessica simpson was gonna be daisy I knew it was gonna be a BAD MOVIE!
then hearing that knoxville and that other loser actor was gonna be it that was just the cheery on top of the worse movie of the year!
man all this movie does is hurt the image of the classic TV SHOW!
whats next- CHIPS with Wilmer Valderrama and Ashton Kutcher
PLEEEAASEEE will hollywood stop trying to find fuel for these terrible teenie bopper actors to satisfy there 12 year old fans!!!

[death from above]

hollywood is so risk-adverse it's sickening.

that said, i'll bet this tripe makes a profit.

[Ya-ta Boy]

I will never understand the logic of investing millions to make a movie out of a so-so TV series 30 or 40 years after the show went out of production. Maverick; Wild, Wild West; I Dream of Jeannie; Dennis the Menace...

[itaewonguy]

[Bulsajo]

I was in Toronto last weekend and saw people lined up for 2 blocks for eight hours or more in sweltering heat to get autographs from Jessica Simpson and the 2 guys and then to be part of a tv show audience they were hosting. WTF?

[pegpig]

[mishlert]

[hypnotist]

[Freezer Burn]

Opening weekend. dah

Its not suppose to be a thinker, most summer movies are no brainers, if you liked the series or you want to kill a hour and a half go and see it, otherwise see something else, its no big deal.
I don't think they are aiming at the Oscars here.

[Alias]

[Bulsajo]

TV Guide's movie critics generally set the bar pretty low...


"The film's ambitions are so low that it's hard to imagine how it fell short of them."
-- Maitland McDonagh, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE

[PolyChronic Time Girl]

[quote="pegpig"[/quote]

You're criticizing a movie you haven't seen? Ah yes, those movie critics. They're always bang-on.
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I don't think it takes ESP or even half a brain to tell if a movie is going to bad by seeing the previews. If the previews look real bad, particulary for an action movie (like this new movie, Stealth) , I'm sure the movie will suck. Besides, Hollywood has made so much no-brainer crap (Fast and the Furious, Triple XXX) that I can guaranttee it sucks without having to watch it because the previews were unbearable to watch in the first place.

Yeah, and this Dukes of Hazzard looks like sheeaatte too. Won't see it.

[Bulsajo]

Or to put it into terms the Dukes might understand- I don't need to know what shit tastes like to know that I don't want it for supper.

[pegpig]