Certainly not the worst of the endless stream of TV remakes, but given the unassuming, easy charm of the original, still wide of the mark by a country mile.
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08/26/05
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The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)
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Reviews Counted:160
Fresh:22
Rotten:138
Average Rating:3.6/10
Consensus: A dumb, goofy, and vacuous adaptation of a TV show where plot is simply an excuse to string together the car chases.
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... [More]
Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Seann William Scott, Jessica Simpson, M.C. Gainey
Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
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Reviews for The Dukes of Hazzard
After about 20 minutes, you’ll start wondering just how many times we’re going to see our two moronic leads doing handbrake turns and going “whoooo-hooo”. I counted at least 30.
08/26/05
It's a film made specifically and entirely for the purpose of extracting money out of unsuspecting customers' wallets, all marketing plan and no artistic vision.
08/25/05
Seems to take pride in being as loud, obnoxious and moronic as humanly possible.
08/23/05
One big, uninspired failure.
08/23/05
The Dukes of Hazzard better have a big opening weekend. Once the Dukes remake hits thousands of movie screens, it's got to win its own race.
08/21/05
The Dukes Of Hazzard is a movie that makes you feel unclean as a result of having seen it.
08/19/05
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08/18/05
Satire by satirists who just don’t get it -- approaching the silly outlaw charm (which satirized itself in the TV show) with the subtlety of an F5 tornado in a trailer park.
08/16/05
Mental garbage, a picture that’s so foul we question its reason for existing.
08/16/05
One Broken Down Lizard
08/15/05
Stupid, meandering, generally unfunny attempt.
08/14/05
Basically it's like a rural South edition of Jackass. But not as funny.
08/14/05
Like being stuck in the middle of a NASCAR race...without a car.
08/12/05
If this is how Bo and Luke translate to the big screen, I’d hate to see the movie versions of Coy and Vance.
08/12/05
dumb, mindless filmmaking at its most mediocre. But so was the TV show.
08/11/05
I could barely make out a word of the 'dialogue' them there Duke boys kept a-hollerin' over the roar of the General Lee and their movie's soundtrack of ineptly edited swamp rock.
08/11/05
As H.L. Mencken said, "No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."
08/11/05
Fan[s] of the ... TV series … [will] likely want to see this just to find out if it's a travesty … [Others, however] will surely wonder what they're doing watching this movie.
08/11/05
Forget the drill core, the Dukes should have had Willie Nelson's blood analyzed, because every time that guy has a blood test science adds a new element to the periodic table.
08/11/05
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