Strange Wilderness (2008)
Average Rating: 2.2/10
Reviews Counted: 44
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 44
Strange Wilderness is a laugh-free comedy that's both aimless and overly crass.
Average Rating: 2.5/10
Critic Reviews: 8
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 8
Strange Wilderness is a laugh-free comedy that's both aimless and overly crass.
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A pair of animal enthusiasts desperate to boost the ratings of their failing television series "Strange Wilderness" set out for the Andes in search of the elusive Bigfoot in this comedy directed by Fred Wolf and starring Justin Long, Steve Zahn, Kevin Heffernan, and Ernest Borgnine. Peter Gaulke (Zahn) and Fred Wolf (Allen Covert) are the energetic hosts of "Strange Wilderness" -- television's most unconventional nature show. When the ratings take a nosedive and they are confronted with
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Steve Zahn
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Allen Covert
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Jonah Hill
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Kevin Heffernan
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Ashley Scott
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Peter Dante
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Harry Hamlin
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Robert Patrick
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Joe Don Baker
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Justin Long
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Jeff Garlin
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Ernest Borgnine
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No snob to low-brow ridiculousness when it's actually unexpected, I'll admit to being amused exactly once.
Top CriticThis movie is designed for an audience that likes gross-out humour and endless silliness.
Despite the presence of funny guys such as Zahn, Garlin, Justin Long and Jonah Hill, along with veteran character actors Ernest Borgnine, Joe Don Baker and Robert Patrick, the movie fails to be even passably funny.
There are stupid stoner comedies and then there are stupid stoner comedies that ain't funny, and the latest effluvium from Adam Sandler's Happy Madison production company is mostly a bummer.
Underachieving even by the standards of stoner comedies, Strange Wilderness is so inert that it doesn't so much unreel on screen as loiter there, giggling at its own outrageousness.
Laughter is definitely an endangered species where Strange Wilderness is concerned.
Hatefully stupid and unfunny.
Any resemblance to comedy is purely coincidental and unintentional. The only reason to chuckle is to prove you haven't died while watching it. Its credits should be handed to a mercenary. It's not a film. It's the Zeroes' worst pop-culture excretion.
It's just plain lazy (or incompetent or both) filmmaking from start to finish.
After watching Strange Wilderness, you may want to soak your feet in a tub of live piranhas, just for laughs. You'll find it a lot more fun than anything in this movie.
What can you say about a film when its most memorable scene is the one in which Steve Zahn's private parts get caught up in a turkey's throat?
I would say 20% of the jokes work and the rest fell flat!
Players like Hill, Long, and Zahn have natural comedic ability, but there's honestly not much they can do with such weak material.
A few cute gags aside, this is an exercise in stupidity aimed at those who find 15 different names for a bong to be funny.
Really not very funny. Unless you're a moronic frat boy who's been smoking a lot of wacky backy, in which case it's probably hilarious.
Strange Wilderness is a never-ending bundle of self-consciously raunchy skits aimed at under-achieving slackers who are too high to notice how desperately pathetic it all is.
There's nothing in this lame, low budget stoner flick that even peeps above the parapet of the ordinary.
A comedy wilderness.
About as funny as watching a cute animal die a long slow death - and probably as painful.
'Strange Wilderness' isn't funny enough to produce anything more than a few slight chuckles. We mostly groan and squirm in our seats while watching it.
...worthless garbage...
Maybe the screenwriters were chemically altered when they decided that this stoner comedy was funny.
Even though this raucous, low-low-lowbrow comedy hits theaters early in the year, I'm thinking the race for bottom-feeder of 2008 is, if not over, at least well under way.
The thing looks like it was shot over the course of six random (weed-filled) weekends, probably for fun at first, but then someone got the idea to release this glorified home movie into theaters. Bad idea.
Slinks its way in and out of theaters without leaving any trace of its passage besides a distinct tang in the air of flop sweat and sorrow.
Audience Reviews for Strange Wilderness
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- Peter Gaulke: Bears have been known to attack man, although the fact is that fewer people have been killed by bears than in all of world war 1 and 2 combined.
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- Peter Gaulke: It is estimated that bears attack 2 million salmon a year. Attacks by salmon on bears are much more rare.
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- Peter Gaulke: When a shark appears in the area sea lions will leave the water immediately. Luckily there are no tigers on the shore waiting for him, or he wouldn't know what the fuck to do.
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- Peter Gaulke: These birds are saying howdy to the zebra. Actually, they're not saying howdy. They're eating the shit out of him.
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- Peter Gaulke: Monkeys make up over 80% of the world's monkey population.
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- Peter Gaulke: No matter how many sea lions are killed each year by sharks, it never seems like enough.
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Entertaining movie which was dumb most of the times but was funny too at times and made me laugh. It depends on your sense of humor if you'll enjoy this movie or be a waste of time for you, watch at own risk and if you do watch it don't take it so seriously.
When his father dies, Peter Gaulke inherits "Strange Wilderness," dad's TV show about animals. After ratings plummet and the show is canceled, we watch a long flashback to see its demise. The studio head gives the show two more weeks. An old friend brings a story about Bigfoot in Ecuador, so a long road trip ensues with stops along the way and enough problems, misjudgments, and deaths to sink a less intrepid band. Peter's team faces competition from a better-funded and more practiced set of rivals. Who will find Bigfoot first, and will they get it on tape and save the show? Can Peter make dad proud?