Without A Paddle Reviews
Flick Filosopher
Movies don't get much more disgustingly juvenile than this...
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.
Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Without a Paddle plays like a movie the studio greenlit 25 years ago and only now got around to making.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Washington Times
Cheeky trio keeps Without a Paddle afloat - barely
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| Original Score: 2/4
jackiekcooper.com
Also without a script, a star, or even some laughs.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/10
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
I'm not saying Without a Paddle shouldn't be a comedy, but it didn't have to be a stupid comedy.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4
Sun Publications (Chicago, IL)
...made me long for the inspired idiocy of `Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle.'
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| Original Score: 1/4
Reeling Reviews
Helmer Steven Brill and company owe me two hours
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| Original Score: D+
Entertainment Spectrum
These guys get in way over their heads stuck in the wilderness. The characters are developed so the audience cares for the guys.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Austin Chronicle
Director Brill makes no stylistic advances from his recent work with Adam Sandler, and shows no signs of seeking growth or improvement.
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| Original Score: 0.5/5
Movie Eye
...[a] warped and water-logged laugher...Without a Paddle is a lazy assault on one's tolerance for exaggerated cruel goofiness.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Director Steven Brill fails to sustain a steady comedic pace; the movie lurches rather than flows from scene to scene.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
It could have been titled "Without a Clue."
Full Review | Original Score: 1/4
DustinPutman.com
A faux-sentimental comedy that not only isn't funny, but half the time appears to have forgotten to insert the joke.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Apollo Guide
It looks like the filmmakers just don't realize that they've embarked on the movie making exercise with their comedic tank just barely half full.
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| Original Score: 61/100
Think Road Trip meets City Slickers. Then dial the humor down a few notches, and you're left Without a Paddle.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
TV Guide's Movie Guide
For a while this buddy comedy sails along smoothly on elements borrowed from The Goonies, Deliverance and Road Trip, but the relentlessly unimaginative script eventually leaves it becalmed.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Forget being up a raging creek without a paddle, these poor losers are lost in a wilderness that permits no comedy.
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| Original Score: 1/5

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