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Strange Wilderness

Overwhelming dislike
Based on 12 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
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)
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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...
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.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones
This one has the feel of being penned on rolling papers, with room to spare.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Variety Joe Leydon
Obviously the product of minimal effort by all parties involved, Strange Wilderness is a slovenly, slapped-together stoner comedy.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Matthew Sorrento
It's a movie that manages to grow more idiotic by the scene.
Read Full Review >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.
