Average Rating: 4.9/10
Reviews Counted: 104
Fresh: 41 | Rotten: 63
A few funny scenes can't save the disjointed Hot Rod, which is too silly and sloppy to hold up.
Average Rating: 4.7/10
Critic Reviews: 25
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 18
A few funny scenes can't save the disjointed Hot Rod, which is too silly and sloppy to hold up.
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The comedy trio known as Lonely Island attempt their first feature-length comedy with Hot Rod. Andy Samberg stars as Rod Kimble, an inept would-be stuntman who believes his dad worked for daredevil Evel Knievel. His stepfather abuses him at every opportunity, but Rod keeps attempting tricks on his moped. After the stepfather becomes very ill, Rod gets the brilliant idea to attempt a stunt more dangerous that Knievel ever considered in order to raise the money to cure him. His master plan being
Aug 3, 2007 Wide
Nov 27, 2007
$13.9M
Paramount Pictures
All Critics (104) | Top Critics (25) | Fresh (45) | Rotten (64) | DVD (25)
What works, wonderfully, are the falls, the punch-outs (his brawls with Stepdad are brutal throw-downs) and waiting for that next accident to happen.
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.
We know from the Lazy Sunday bits Samberg's a funny guy, but he doesn't have enough to work with here.
Started to go bad about the time someone in casting said, "You know what? I'll bet America is just about ready for the comedy stylings of Sissy Spacek."
Samberg can't carry this, though director Akiva Schaffer supplies some hilarious, Jackass-style wipeouts.
Imagine a Stand by Me on wheels, with dialogue spoken by 20-something actors instead of 12-year-olds, and you have the essence of the script.
A perennial problem with comedy from regular collaborators is that the results feel too much like friends' in-jokes.
Awesomely dumb slapstick is for teens and adults only.
The results are barely worth an illegal download.
Oh, Napoleon Dynamite! What have you wrought? [Blu-ray]
...only a heart transplant can save the step-dad. What the movie needed was a script transplant. (Blu-ray Edition)
...comedy is a subjective thing, and what makes one person laugh may simply bore someone else. Hod Rod bored me.
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.
...comes off as precisely the sort of silly and nonsensical piece of work that one might've expected...
Cell phones, the Internet, '80s fashion and '70s style are all thrown together for a winning combination.
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.
The disc's extras begin with a predictably goofy chat-filled commentary by the three brains behind this movie: director Akiva Schaffer and stars Andy Samberg and Jorma Taccone.
A breath of fresh air in the comedy genre which has lately seen its fair share of movies overwrought with gross out gags. While this film doesn't reinvent the wheel, it is a delight to watch if you are bored on a thursday night. While it does drag in some parts and has many moments so stupid that one cannot force
April 4, 2010Super Reviewer
Hot Rod, have everything to be a good comedy film, but Schaffer's picture, present just a few funny scenes, become very silly and nothing funny, the dumb screenplay just get worse, what make a bad start for The Lonely Island in the movies. Rotten.
November 13, 2011Super Reviewer
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