Hot Rod emerges as a daffy, dorky summer surprise, a silly comedy of non sequiturs that feels like a cockeyed collaboration between Will Ferrell and Mel Brooks.
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Hot Rod (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 96
Fresh: 37
Rotten:59
Average Rating: 4.8/10
Consensus: A few funny scenes can't save the disjointed Hot Rod, which is too silly and sloppy to hold up.
Runtime: 88 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release: Aug 3, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $13,920,741
Synopsis: Amateur suburban stunt man Rod Kimble (SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE's Andy Samberg) believes he's destined to follow in the footsteps of his late father, who made test runs of Evel Knievel's stunts before the better-known daredevil repeated them... [More]
Starring: Andy Samberg, Isla Fisher, Jorma Taccone, Bill Hader
Director: Akiva Schaffer
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Reviews for Hot Rod
...comes off as precisely the sort of silly and nonsensical piece of work that one might've expected...
03/18/08
Cell phones, the Internet, '80s fashion and '70s style are all thrown together for a winning combination.
03/03/08
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01/14/08
Top Critic It's a simple comedy that tries to be nothing but. At times it is simple hilarity, other times it's a little too "Napoleon Dynamite" for its own good.
12/09/07
Prepare to be dazzled, we are told in the first few minutes, as fireworks are lit in eager anticipation. But the fireworks fizzle big time, as does this tedious, tired comedy that is short on appeal and laughs. Wacky and low-brow it is, but fun it ain't
10/06/07
Well worth checking out, then, if you like your comedy supremely silly, but ultimately memorable only as a series of great skits mixed in with some dead patches.
09/28/07
Dumb comedy in the Napoleon Dynamite mould with a better-than-average gag rate.
09/27/07
Though it's as disposable as a plastic razor, Hot Rod is not without a few good yuks.
09/25/07
If you're looking for plausibility, this is not your movie. If you're looking for laughs, this is not your movie. If you like seeing delusional overgrown adolescents fall down a lot, then this one's for you.
09/01/07
Top Critic Here's a strange, hit-and-miss approach to the kind of movie in which Will Ferrell usually stars.
08/29/07
Through Hot Rod's manic weirdness, its take on young suburban males is completely authentic. It's the summer's happiest screen comedy.
08/29/07
Samberg proves to be less than big screen-ready (hardly surprising, given his most notable SNL work has come in music video shorts and not any sketch work).
08/19/07
Andy Samberg is tolerable in a 90-second Digital Short on Saturday Night Live, but very, very far from tolerable in a 90-minute feature film.
08/16/07
While certainly not on the same sub-level as the other SNL flicks, Hot Rod is more like 25% inspired weirdness and 75% recycled stuff.
08/13/07
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