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67There are some genuinely clever moments of physical comedy, and the inevitable crudeness is offset by winning whimsy. Without has all the freshness of moldering Playboys stashed under a mattress, but it evokes what few boys-will-be-boys larks can: chumminess.
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Extremely dumb, sporadically funny.
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50There are a few gross-out laughs, but Without a Paddle's gang-written script doesn't know what it wants to be.
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50A likable trio of actors struggles valiantly but ultimately fails to keep this dopey buddy comedy afloat.
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50Dax Shepard from MTV's "Punk'd," in his first major big-screen role, steals Without a Paddle. Not that it's too hard to do.
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50Even in a world where stupidity mixed with cliche is all too often mistaken for humor, this movie barely meets expectations.
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50An unstable -- if mostly painless -- mix of low comedy, stabs at higher silliness, and schmaltz.
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The cheesy, unconvincing moments centered on the characters' serious discussions of life and friendship really seem unnatural and ruin the flow of the physical comedy.
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40While the likable Seth Green, Matthew Lillard and Dax Shepard are definitely up to the comic excursion, the picture charts an uncertain course between wild and mild, eventually running aground in a pile of male-bonding muck.
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40Bart the Bear shows more versatility in his gender-bending role than Lillard, who trots out his old, tired slacker shtick.
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40Burt Reynolds, whose near-vaudevillian comic timing, is refreshing but not enough to carry the picture.
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Despite some agreeably idiotic moments, Without a Paddle is also mostly without a rudder. Its few memorable highlights end up floating haplessly in a genial but uninspired and watery plot.
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Led by a trio of dumb, dumber and dumbest, Without a Paddle is a testosterone comedy that might just as well be titled "Without a Brain Cell."
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38This so-called comedy is a frayed string of anxious jokes about whether male bonding is manly or sissy.
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38In a summer filled with dumb comedies, this might prove to be the dumbest. Think "Road Trip" meets "City Slickers." Then dial the humor down a few notches, and you're left Without a Paddle.
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30Buddy comedies rely heavily on their leads' chemistry, and in this regard, Without A Paddle fails.
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30Every situation, every bit of dialogue, comes straight out of the Big Book of Movie Clichés.
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30Pushes its ugly humor further than most.
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Aside from a few good zingers the humor is crude and homophobic, and you could drive an ATV through the holes in the plot.
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25Never quite as dumb as "Harold & Kumar," but it's nowhere near as smart, and that's what kills it.
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25Yet another raunchy, gross-out farce, this one about smart-alecky city boys who have wacky adventures while exposing themselves in -- I mean to -- the great outdoors.
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20Disappointing.
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20Burt Reynolds turns up as scruffy mountain man, sparking unfulfilled expectations of some primo Deliverance jokes.
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Well, incredibly stupid is certainly what is delivered to audiences.
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20At least it cares enough to steal from the very best. Unfortunately, that's about all it cares about.
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12So bad that it will annoy and/or bore those who have minimal standards and a high tolerance for sewage.
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11Director Brill makes no stylistic advances from his recent work with Adam Sandler (Little Nicky, Mr. Deeds), and shows no signs of seeking growth or improvement.
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