• PG-13, 1 hr. 35 min.
  • Comedy
  • Directed By:
    Steven Brill
    In Theaters:
    Aug 20, 2004 Wide
    On DVD:
    Jan 11, 2005
  • Paramount Pictures

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Without A Paddle Reviews

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MaryAnn Johanson
Flick Filosopher

Movies don't get much more disgustingly juvenile than this...

Full Review Source: Flick Filosopher

August 26, 2004
Austin O'Connor
Lowell Sun

wholly undignified.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4

August 26, 2004
Mark Holcomb
Village Voice
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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.

Full Review Source: Village Voice

August 25, 2004
David Noh
Film Journal International

Belabored would be too kind a word for it.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International

August 24, 2004
Daniel M. Kimmel
Worcester Telegram & Gazette

Without a Paddle plays like a movie the studio greenlit 25 years ago and only now got around to making.

Full Review Source: Worcester Telegram & Gazette | Original Score: 2/5

August 23, 2004
Christian Toto
Washington Times

Cheeky trio keeps Without a Paddle afloat - barely

Full Review Source: Washington Times | Original Score: 2/4

August 23, 2004
Jackie K. Cooper
jackiekcooper.com

Also without a script, a star, or even some laughs.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10

August 23, 2004
Jeffrey Westhoff
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

August 23, 2004
Josh Larsen
Sun Publications (Chicago, IL)

...made me long for the inspired idiocy of `Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle.'

Full Review Source: Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) | Original Score: 1/4

August 23, 2004
Robin Clifford
Reeling Reviews

Helmer Steven Brill and company owe me two hours

Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | Original Score: D+

August 23, 2004
Vince Koehler
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.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Spectrum | Original Score: 3/4

August 22, 2004
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle

Director Brill makes no stylistic advances from his recent work with Adam Sandler, and shows no signs of seeking growth or improvement.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | Original Score: 0.5/5

August 22, 2004
Frank Ochieng
Movie Eye

...[a] warped and water-logged laugher...Without a Paddle is a lazy assault on one's tolerance for exaggerated cruel goofiness.

Full Review Source: Movie Eye | Original Score: 1.5/4

August 22, 2004
Bob Bloom
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

August 22, 2004
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

It could have been titled "Without a Clue."

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4

August 22, 2004
Dustin Putman
DustinPutman.com

A faux-sentimental comedy that not only isn't funny, but half the time appears to have forgotten to insert the joke.

Full Review Source: DustinPutman.com | Original Score: 1.5/4

August 21, 2004
Brian Webster
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.

Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | Original Score: 61/100

August 20, 2004
Claudia Puig
USA Today
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Think Road Trip meets City Slickers. Then dial the humor down a few notches, and you're left Without a Paddle.

Full Review Source: USA Today | Original Score: 1.5/4

August 20, 2004
Angel Cohn
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.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Original Score: 2/5

August 20, 2004
Geoff Pevere
Toronto Star
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Forget being up a raging creek without a paddle, these poor losers are lost in a wilderness that permits no comedy.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Original Score: 1/5

August 20, 2004
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