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Strange Wilderness

EMAILPRINTParamount Pictures

Strange Wilderness reviews
12
4.7 User Score:

Overwhelming dislike

Based on 12 critic reviews
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Based on 53 votes
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Comedy

Written by: Peter Gaulke
Fred Wolf

Directed by: Fred Wolf

Release Date:
Theatrical: February 1, 2008
DVD: May 20, 2008

Running Time: 87 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: R for non-stop language, drug use, crude and sexual humor

Starring Steve Zahn, Jonah Hill, Allen Covert, Harry Hamlin, Robert Patrick, Justin Long, Jeff Garlin, and Ernest Borgnine

Animal enthusiast Peter Gaulke and his sidekick Fred Wolf host an ailing wildlife TV show Strange Wilderness, which is in a steep ratings decline. Desperate to save the show, Peter hatches a Hail Mary scheme to find the one animal that could truly turn the show around and change the nature-show landscape forever - Bigfoot. (Paramount Pictures)

What The Critics Said

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...

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The Onion (A.V. Club) Steven Hyden

Strange Wilderness has three bad comic ideas for every good joke, and it botches many of those, too, thanks to slack comic timing and a nonexistent grasp of storytelling basics. But just when the flop-sweat stench is about to become unbearable, Strange Wilderness stumbles upon an uproarious, laugh-out moment, and suddenly it's tolerable again for another few minutes.

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30

Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones

This one has the feel of being penned on rolling papers, with room to spare.

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30

Chicago Reader Reece Pendleton

Aside from the waste of a talented cast, the only thing that really caught my attention was the tomblike silence of the audience--at least until the bong jokes started.

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25

Boston Globe Ty Burr

By far the funniest part of Strange Wilderness is the trailer for "Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay" that's running before it.

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20

Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust

Despite the presence of funny guys such as Zahn, Garlin, Justin Long and Jonah Hill, along with veteran character actors Ernest Borgnine, Joe Don Baker and Robert Patrick, the movie fails to be even passably funny.

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20

The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen

The result is a slacker comedy that goes slacker by the second, trying hard to be rude and crude but suggesting an old John Candy-Dan Aykroyd movie with bongs and more swearing.

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20

The New York Times Matt Zoller Seitz

What rankles isn’t the gross-out humor or the verbal non sequiturs, which are expected, even welcome, in this sort of movie. It’s the smug sense of entitlement -- that of intoxicated dweebs tittering endlessly and obnoxiously at their own supposed cleverness. “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle” is the gold standard in this genre. Strange Wilderness is a counterfeit bill.

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10

Variety Joe Leydon

Obviously the product of minimal effort by all parties involved, Strange Wilderness is a slovenly, slapped-together stoner comedy.

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10

LA Weekly Aaron Hillis

No snob to low-brow ridiculousness when it’s actually unexpected, I’ll admit to being amused exactly once, when Zahn gets deep-throated by a gigantic prop turkey who, despite the mouthful, keeps on flapping.

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0

TV Guide Ken Fox

You'd have to be more than merely intoxicated to find anything about this dismal stoner comedy remotely funny. You'd have to be unconscious.

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0

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jason McBride

The vibe isn't mellow, nor predictably, affably dumb. Rather, this is a slapdash effort whose faux-Farrelly brothers humour is papered over with an unremitting, distasteful malice, featuring a cast that's completely wasted, in both senses of the word.

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0

Film Threat Matthew Sorrento

It's a movie that manages to grow more idiotic by the scene.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 4.7 (out of 10) based on 53 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

K M gave it a5:
I'd be lying if I claimed I didn't like some parts of this movie. There were three or four moments in this movie that really delivered the laughs, I still find them hilarious. The overall movie is too stupid for its own good and ends up leaving you wondering if based off its poor dialogue and meaningless plot, if you are just as capable of writing something so bad.

metria y gave it a10:
Great movie me and my friends enjoyed it so a lot. Why is that pink thong running so fast?

michael R gave it a7:
This movie is really underrated. There were plenty of scenes worthy of my laughter.

M. T. gave it a0:
An awful, awful movie, and a waste of two hours. The film actually made me lose a lot of respect for its' cast and writers.

[Anonymous] gave it a0:
I have never watched a movie that I couldn't even bear to sit through, but this was it. I like Happy Madison movies....but this was RETARDED. It made me want to shoot myself in the face.

Will R. gave it a0:
This movie was horrible. One of those i simply couldn't make through without judging myself for how by-the-minute it was planned. They should have paid me to watch it.

Lewis Y. gave it a7:
I think what you have to remember is that this movie was so retarded that it was strangely amusing to watch, it wasn't worth the 12.50 i paid for it, but what the hell, it was a good waste of time.

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