Good, stupid fun.
The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:8
Rotten:28
Average Rating:3.7/10
Consensus: A dumb, goofy, and vacuous adaptation of a TV show where plot is simply an excuse to string together the car chases.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for sexual content, crude and drug-related humor, language and comic action violence
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Theatrical Release:Aug 5, 2005 Wide
Box Office: $80,206,743
Synopsis: It was inevitable that THE DUKES OF HAZZARD would leap onto the big screen, and now, thanks to Broken Lizard's Jay Chandrasekhar (SUPER TROOPERS, CLUB DREAD), it finally has. Slipping into the... It was inevitable that THE DUKES OF HAZZARD would leap onto the big screen, and now, thanks to Broken Lizard's Jay Chandrasekhar (SUPER TROOPERS, CLUB DREAD), it finally has. Slipping into the boots made famous by John Schneider and Tom Wopat, Seann William Scott and Johnny Knoxville play moonshine-selling cousins, Bo and Luke Duke. Along with their ridiculously gorgeous cousin Daisy (Jessica Simpson) and joke-telling Uncle Jessie (Willie Nelson), the Duke boys love to get the goat of Hazzard County's most crooked law enforcement officials, including Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane (M.C. Gainey) and county commissioner Boss Hogg (Burt Reynolds). But when they discover that Boss Hogg is using his leverage to run them off their farm in order to turn Hazzard County into a strip mine for coal, things get personal. With the help of their faithful friends, Bo and Luke set off on their riskiest adventure yet. Showing his reverence for the classic 1980s show, Chandrasekhar incorporates freeze-frames, humorous narration, and extended action sequences, resulting in a crowd-pleasing romp that promises to introduce a whole new generation of fans to the Duke boys. While Scott, Knoxville, and the scantily clad Simpson deliver the goods, it is The General Lee--the pair's electrifying orange Charger--that steals the show. [More]
Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Seann William Scott, Jessica Simpson, M.C. Gainey
Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Seann William Scott, Jessica Simpson, M.C. Gainey, Burt Reynolds, Willie Nelson, James Roday, Lynda Carter, David Koechner, Kevin Heffernan
Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
Screenwriter: John O'Brien
Producer: Bill Gerber
Composer: Nathan Barr
Studio: Warner Bros.
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Reviews for The Dukes of Hazzard
I hated this movie. It represents everything that’s wrong with the studio system.
After the first chase scene, it's obvious that Scott and Knoxville don't have enough charisma to carry the film, or to even make anarchic destruction and evading the law into something if not sexy at least endearing.
Like most movies based on old television shows, Dukes is all concept, with a few jokes written into its crevices.
You can't blame the millions who will fantasize about Gen. Sherman burning the movie's negative, but when it comes to the home market, this will be a good one for its target audience to pass out to.
Delivering exactly what it promises -- car chasing, girl gazing and yee-hawing -- it takes the high road to low art by remaining faithful to the TV series that spawned it.
For a movie that posits itself as a celebration of rebel excess, Dukes is pretty tame.
Why fans of the series would pay good money to see something they can see free in TV reruns escapes me.
In lieu of a movie, we get a series of car chases rudely interrupted by the occasional smattering of dialogue.
Amazing. Incredible. Unbelievable. Astonishing. Painful. All these words come to mind in just the first 10 minutes of viewing this film, none of them in a good way.
Purports to be a remake of a TV show but is more accurately a remake of Jessica's vapid modeling career.
The storyline is so dumb and predictable it wouldn't have even made the grade for an episode of the original TV series.
Not even a sexy, toned and blossomed blond can distract from the vapid ugliness that is The Dukes of Hazzard.
Hard to imagine a movie more mind-numbingly pointless and instantly forgettable.
There's a stink coming off the big-screen Dukes of Hazzard that even fans of the TV series (1979 to 1985) won't be able to shake out of their nostrils.
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