Average Rating: 3.9/10
Reviews Counted: 125
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 107
Without a Paddle has a few laughs, but not enough to sustain its running time.
Average Rating: 4.2/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 25
Without a Paddle has a few laughs, but not enough to sustain its running time.
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Average Rating: 3.3/5
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Just as the old saying goes, a trio of hapless city-dwelling friends (Seth Green, Matthew Lillard, and Dax Shepard) find themselves spiraling out of control up a very brown river in this raucous comedy from Little Nicky director Steven Brill. Heading out for a weekend canoe trip in search of an elusive 200,000-dollar treasure, the trio must contend with everything from raging rapids to backwoods mountain men if they're ever going to uncover the secret of the missing booty. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
Aug 20, 2004 Wide
Jan 11, 2005
$58.2M
Paramount Pictures
All Critics (133) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (21) | Rotten (110) | DVD (20)
Without has all the freshness of moldering Playboys stashed under a mattress, but it evokes what few boys-will-be-boys larks can: chumminess.
How do you siphon the laffs from a surefire gut-busting premise like city slickers stuck in the sticks? ... you assemble a cut-rate Three Stooges, inject tired '80s nostalgia and some moralistic goo about carpe-ing the diem.
Think Road Trip meets City Slickers. Then dial the humor down a few notches, and you're left Without a Paddle.
Forget being up a raging creek without a paddle, these poor losers are lost in a wilderness that permits no comedy.
The first half of the film is enjoyable but hit and miss. After that, it's just miss.
A larky, throwaway movie.
Even a paddle can't keep this movie from sinking.
Shepard, Green and Lillard have good chemistry, and this bodes well considering there are three characters to play off each other rather than just two
I kept looking and hoping for a laugh that never came. (Blu-ray Edition)
Maybe the filmmakers should have called the picture Without a Laugh.
Gets into the male bonding mode with a casual, instinctive flair that breathes more life into the Steven Brill comedy than it may actually merit.
Gets into the male bonding mode with a casual, instinctive flair that breathes more life into the Steven Brill comedy than it may actually merit.
Without a Paddle is a sloppy effort, yet even a clichéd comedy could be fun if it actually delivered on laughs.
A sloppy, lowest common denominator comedy
Average comedy, the acting is fine, but the script is pretty lame and it doesn't have a lot of good jokes.
This is one of those comedies that though not perfect, are still very entertaining and fun. Though it isn't a perfect film, Without a Paddle is a fun, comedy that has plenty of things to offer. This is overall a mindless comedy that anyone can enjoy. Not excellent by any means, but really fun, Without a Paddle is one
December 31, 2011
Super Reviewer
I guess it's The Hangover in a completely different setting. You have Seth Green playing a doctor "the smart guy", a chilled and relaxed, rebellious guy and a not so smart, unusual guy. They are all man child characters in this very uniquely made comedy and I think it had more than enough laughs to keep one
December 24, 2011
Super Reviewer
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