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Hands on a Hard Body director S.R. Bindler directs this wave-twisting tale of a soul-searching surfer (Matthew McConaughey) in the midst of an existential crisis. Steve Addington (McConaughey) is an herb-toking long-boarder with a keen sense of balance and a mellow outlook on life. Upon returning to his hometown of Malibu to spend the summer with old friends, Steve begins to sense that the good vibes he remembers as a boy have been hopelessly corrupted by the powers that be. When the earthen
Sep 5, 2008 Wide
Dec 30, 2008
Anchor Bay Entertainment
All Critics (18) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (0) | Rotten (18) | DVD (4)
The film looks more like a collection of home movies as opposed to a professional piece of cinema.
It felt like we were watching a rough cut.
[A] hapless, laughless movie.
You can stick around for the only funny line, which involves a breakfast burrito, but the smart surfer would head for the hills and Willie's goat ranch.
Surfer, Dude is a bizarre throwback. It feels 25-30 years out of date and seems to be meant to be watched on VHS, oops, make that DVD, while stoned.
Willie and ganja, yes, yes, the cliches abound.
The problem that Surfer, Dude faces is that in its attempt to be a stoner comedy, it forgot to add the comedy elements.
A celebration of unrealistic lifestyles, which makes it exactly the wrong film for our times. [Blu-ray]
The number of artistically successful surfing movies can be counted on one hand, and the majority of those are documentaries.
I wish the finished product was as amusing as the behind-the-scenes pot-fueled merriment I imagine took place during production.
The movie is about a surfer dude (sans comma), who is an analog dude trying to fit into a digital world, which is like trying to get a square peg into a Calabi-Yau Manifold, which is to say it probably won't work, and neither does this movie.
Yes, this is a movie made by stoners for stoners.
There's something about the mystical-spiritual aura surrounding surfing that tends to turn most movies on the subject to hippie-dippie mush.
A shapeless slog with virtually no tale to chase.
A total wipeout.
I couldn't think of a less appealing advert for the way of the surf.
...limp and rambling picture, which crawls across the screen for about 30 minutes longer than it has any need to.
Dumb but harmless. Go into it with no expectations but that it will be a throwback to late 70's-early 80's mindless flicks like The Malibu Bikini Shop and it's ilk and you're in the right frame of mind for this.
November 13, 2009
Super Reviewer
It's a pretty alright summer movie. One of those 'do what you love and the rest will fall in to place' films. I can dig it and I can't get enough of the surfer vibe ever since i saw POINT BREAK LIVE.
July 8, 2010Super Reviewer
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