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Dukes of Hazzard, The
Warner Bros.
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for sexual content, crude and drug-related humor, language and comic action violence
Starring
Seann William Scott,
Johnny Knoxville,
Jessica Simpson,
Burt Reynolds,
Joe Don Baker,
Lynda Carter,
Willie Nelson,
and
Alice Greczyn
Based on the hit television series that ran from 1979-85, the film follows the adventures of "good old boy" cousins, Bo (Scott) and Luke (Knoxville) Duke, who with the help of their eye-catching cousin Daisy (Simpson) and moonshine running Uncle Jesse (Nelson), try and save the family farm from being destroyed by Hazzard County's corrupt commissioner Boss Hogg (Reynolds). (Warner Bros.)
| GENRE(S): |
Action
|
Adventure
|
Comedy
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Jonathan Davis
John O'Brien
Broken Lizard
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Jay Chandrasekhar
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 6, 2005
Theatrical: August 5, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
105 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
83
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
It's trash, all right, but perfectly skewed trash -- a comedy that knows just how smart to be about just how dumb it is.

80
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Director Jay Chandrasekhar ... has found the perfect balance of old-fashioned charm and postmodern touches -- but not too many to overshadow the show's precious texture.

75
New York Post
Kyle Smith
A lot of its jokes sputter and it doesn't contain even a hint of a chick movie, but The Dukes of Hazzard has some of the same fratty energy as "Wedding Crashers."

63
USA Today
Mike Clark
It's for people who have always wanted to see Willie Nelson ("Uncle Jesse") lob Molotov cocktails on a freeway and smoke weed with Joe Don Baker, who plays Georgia's governor.

60
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
As soon as it became clear that this remake has nothing to do with real Georgia moonshiners and everything to do with car chases, smashups, and explosions, I could sit back and enjoy it as good, stupid fun.

60
Slate
David Edelstein
A decent-enough rambunctious Southern-drive-in sort of time-waster, missing only the bare boobs that would make it the perfect socially irresponsible sexist entertainment for rednecks and uptight liberal elites who'd like to live the country-boy dream for a few hours. (Howdy, y'all!)

60
Variety
Brian Lowry
Loud, silly but kind of lame-brained fun with car chases aplenty, "Dukes" faithfully plays like an extended episode of the series, albeit with an additional gallon or so of fuel-injected raunchiness.

58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
The bright spot is Seann William Scott ("Dude, Where's My Car?") as Bo Duke. His good-naturedly maniacal manner and early Dennis Quaid killer smile are endearing, to the point where he occasionally threatens to elevate the movie into something special.

50
Premiere
Peter Debruge
Skillfully manage to adapt some key details of the show -- namely, the high-flying car chases and hillbilly narration.

50
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
It's got a few laughs and some impressive car chases, but mostly, it's just a puzzling jumble of gags and exhaust fumes.

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Manages to rocket along at full speed. At the same time, however, the movie feels as if it's not going anywhere at all.

50
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
A cheap, greasy time at the multiplex. You leave annoyed at having been hungry enough to have ever wanted it in the first place.

50
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
Director Jay Chandrasekhar ("Super Troopers") will never be mistaken for an artist. But he's competent with crude humor and manages to balance affectionate parody and rote imitation.

40
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
The whole thing seems so perfectly good-natured that you settle in for some harmless, silly fun. But Dukes runs out of gas early on.

40
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
So outrageously, unregenerately stupid that you might be tempted to think it's smart. But it's not: It's as dumb as Georgia dirt.

40
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
It would help if the movie were actually funny - or if it actually bothered to be a movie, rather than some car chases punctuated by shots of Ms. Simpson sashaying toward the camera (or more often, away from it).

40
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
A bigger-louder-dumber take on that good ol' CBS hillbilly hit, the movie version of "The Dukes of Hazzard" starts off on the wrong foot and keeps heading, appropriately, south.

40
Empire
Simon Braund
Certainly not the worst of the endless stream of TV remakes, but given the unassuming, easy charm of the original, still wide of the mark by a country mile.

38
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
There's nothing wrong with Simpson's performance that a head transplant wouldn't cure, and the grinning Reynolds looks Botoxed into immobility.

38
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Though its PG-13 rating allows for much cruder sex humor, the movie version of "Dukes" is nearly identical to the TV series in its corniness, in its incessant car chases and in its ogling of the posterior of cousin Daisy Duke.

38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
In lieu of a movie, we get a series of car chases rudely interrupted by the occasional smattering of dialogue.

30
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
YEEEEE HAAAAW! They've gone and done it. The feature version of The Dukes Of Hazzard turns a sow's ear into a bigger sow's ear.
30
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
Just make sure you exit the theater before Simpson's god-awful version of "These Boots Are Made for Walking" starts playing during the end credits, or you may find yourself taking the straw from your drink and puncturing your own eardrums in self defense.

30
Austin Chronicle
Marrit Ingman
How can a movie narrated by Junior Brown and backed with wall-to-wall southern rock – a movie that at one point features co-stars Nelson and Carter tied together, surely a first in celluloid history – be so uneventful? Why, it's lazier than Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane's good-for-nothing hound dog, Flash.

30
Village Voice
Peter L'Official
Dukes insults not "family values," as the original Cooter claims, just general intelligence. Yee. Haw.

30
LA Weekly
Paul Malcolm
Director Jay Chandrasekhar (Super Troopers, Club Dread) does a fine job with the car jumps. Just try to wake up whenever you hear "Yee-haw."

25
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A lame-brained, outdated wheeze about a couple of good ol' boys who roar around the back roads of the South in the General Lee, their beloved 1969 Dodge Charger.

25
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
The less said about Simpson's performance the better. From the neck down she fulfills all the requirements, but, honestly, I think General Lee might do a better job with the dialogue.

25
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
The Dukes of Hazzard may mark some sort of nadir when it comes to movies made from TV shows. It's an overlong, under-thought and numbingly one-dimensional extrapolation of a TV show whose pleasures were, at best, marginal. See it at your own peril.

20
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
So loud, so long, so dumb.

20
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
With no plot, character or dialogue worth experiencing, let alone remembering, the film merely occupies space on the screen and hopes for the best.

12
Chicago Tribune
Allison Benedikt
Commenting on performances here is like critiquing the production design of a porno--it's beside the point. Briefly: Knoxville, bad choice, man. Reynolds, you make a good villain. Simpson, lovely posing. Scott, you're from Minnesota and it shows--but I bet stunt driving school was fun.

12
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Straight viewing could result in brain damage.

10
Dallas Observer
Robert Wilonsky
The movie's so unfunny, it almost appears to be that way on purpose, kind of like an Ingmar Bergman film.

0
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
In stiff competition for the lamest thing ever put on celluloid.

0
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
There is no wrong time to flush this turd. The only bright spot comes during the outtakes over the final credits.


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