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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for drug content, sexual material, language, crude humor and some violence
Starring Seth Green, Matthew Lillard, Dax Shepard, Ethan Suplee, Abraham Benrubi, Rachel Blanchard, and Burt Reynolds
This comic adventure begins when three childhood buddies decide to pursue their boyhood dream of finding legendary bank robber DB Cooper's stash in the Oregon wilderness. (Paramount Pictures)
| GENRE(S): | Comedy |
| WRITTEN BY: |
Jay Leggett
Mitch Rouse Fred Wolf, Harris Goldberg and Tom Nursall (story) |
| DIRECTED BY: | Steven Brill |
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: January 11, 2005 Video: January 11, 2005 Theatrical: August 20, 2004 |
| RUNNING TIME: | 97 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: | USA |
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The average user rating for this movie is 7.0 (out of 10) based on 34 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Steve P. gave it a9:
I don't understand why critics hate this type of film. It was fun, comidic, and at times suprisingly exciting. The meaning, thought light, is not a half bad one. The action was good. Thought it was not a roll on the floor comidy, like Dodge Ball, it was funny. Give this film a chance.
Joshua H. gave it a7:
Despite it's shortcomings, this is truly a good movie. Not only is there a buddy film here, but a couple of good lessons, a couple of hotties in a tree, and a couple of gruesom redneck villians. Poop jokes and potfields aside, I enjoyed the film.
Mark B. gave it a7:
This buddy comedy/ slapstick extravaganza/ coming-to-maturity meditation/ Deliverance parody was more or less thrown away by Paramount near the end of summer 2004...and I think even they were surprised at how long its box office legs ended up being compared to expectations. Deservedly so, I think; despite the mostly silly resumes of its three leads (Seth Green in the Austin Powers movies, Matthew Lillard in the Scooby-Doos and Dax Shepard in Punk'd) I was nicely surprised to see them working together realistically as actors rather than as comedians hogging the spotlight; they really did seem as though they'd known each other a lifetime. Lots of early 1980s culture--movies, music and sports--is cannily and amusingly referenced, but interestingly one 80s film that isn't mentioned is The Big Chill, though it may certainly be implied: the fourth pal, Billy, is like Chill's Alex in that his death forces the rest of the gang, now thirtysomethings, to evaluate their lives and make some decisions as they embark on one last quest to find legendary thief D. B. Cooper's hidden swag. Lightly enjoyable until the guys encounter some vicious pot farmers (the equivalent of moonshiners in 1970s drive-in fare), a couple of spacey nature chicks and Burt Reynolds as Grizzly Adams Redux, and then often utterly hilarious after, Without A Paddle does what it does well, and is what it is: a modest pleasure. Having said that, I have to also admit that the trio spends far, far too much screen time in just their skivvies than I needed to see, and that Adam Sandler director Steven Brill (Mr. Deeds, Little Nicky) really didn't have any call to pay tribute to the most notorious scene in Big Daddy, an even worse Sandler flick he may have WISHED he'd done, by including the three in a group-whizz-as-male-bonding sequence.
Marcus M gave it a3:
A few Really GOOD laughs, but overall worth skipping. You'll catch the best parts of this movie in the trailor.
cailyn k gave it a10:
Greatest movie ive seen in a long time. some people just dont know how to laugh when it comes to GOOD comedy.
bobbie g gave it a10:
I liked this movie because it reminded me of alot of my friends and the things that we may do like that.
emily s. gave it a10:
The funniest film i have seen in a long time. i have seen 3 screenings of it and the audience were cracking up in all of them.
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