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Strange Wilderness (2008)

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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: 2.2/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 7

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

R, 1 hr. 25 min.

Comedy

Directed By: Fred Wolf

Written By: Peter Gaulke, Fred Wolf

In Theaters: Feb 1, 2008 Wide

On DVD: May 20, 2008

Box Office:$6.5M

Paramount Classics

No snob to low-brow ridiculousness when it's actually unexpected, I'll admit to being amused exactly once.

February 5, 2008 Full Review Source: Village Voice

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Aaron Hillis

Village Voice

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This movie is designed for an audience that likes gross-out humour and endless silliness.

February 4, 2008 Full Review Source: Toronto Star

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Philip Marchand

Toronto Star

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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.

February 4, 2008 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times

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Kevin Crust

Los Angeles Times

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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.

February 4, 2008 Full Review Source: Boston Globe

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Ty Burr

Boston Globe

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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.

February 2, 2008 Full Review Source: New York Times

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Matt Zoller Seitz

New York Times

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Laughter is definitely an endangered species where Strange Wilderness is concerned.

February 2, 2008 Comment

Michael Rechtshaffen

Hollywood Reporter

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Hatefully stupid and unfunny.

April 4, 2011 Full Review Source: Movies.com

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Dave White

Movies.com

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.

November 10, 2010 Full Review Source: Suite101.com

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Nick Rogers

Suite101.com

What's strange is that this movie even got made.

August 3, 2009 Full Review Source: 3BlackChicks Review

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Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel

3BlackChicks Review

Extras on the disc include a painfully lifeless Reel Comedy episode on the film.

April 27, 2009 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide

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Brian Webster

Apollo Guide

It's just plain lazy (or incompetent or both) filmmaking from start to finish.

April 27, 2009 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide

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Brian Webster

Apollo Guide

While not as funny as the other Happy-Madison stoner comedy Grandma's Boy, Strange Wilderness has a perverse charm that oozes out of the film when watched at home.

April 18, 2009 Full Review Source: 7M Pictures

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Kevin Carr

7M Pictures

The movie starts out unfunny and gets unfunnier as it goes along. (Blu-ray Edition)

April 11, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

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.

April 11, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

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?

February 6, 2009 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile

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Louise Keller

Urban Cinefile

I would say 20% of the jokes work and the rest fell flat!

July 22, 2008 Full Review | Comment

Austin Kennedy

Sin Magazine

Players like Hill, Long, and Zahn have natural comedic ability, but there's honestly not much they can do with such weak material.

June 14, 2008 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com

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Christopher Null

Filmcritic.com

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.

May 10, 2008 Full Review Source: Movie Views

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Ryan Cracknell

Movie Views Source: Movie Views

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.

April 11, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4

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Daniel Etherington

Film4

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.

April 11, 2008 Full Review Source: Total Film

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Ken McIntyre

Total Film

There's nothing in this lame, low budget stoner flick that even peeps above the parapet of the ordinary.

April 11, 2008 Full Review Source: BBC

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Paul Arendt

BBC

A comedy wilderness.

April 11, 2008 Full Review Source: Sky Movies

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Tim Evans

Sky Movies

About as funny as watching a cute animal die a long slow death - and probably as painful.

April 11, 2008 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine

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Glen Ferris

Empire Magazine

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They could solve the world's biggest mystery, if only they had a clue.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

January 28, 2008

Manu Gino

Super Reviewer

Wow... this was so boring

September 18, 2010

Albert Kim

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