Dukes of Hazzard, The

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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!)

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.

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.

Premiere Peter Debruge

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Village Voice Peter L'Official

Dukes insults not "family values," as the original Cooter claims, just general intelligence. Yee. Haw.

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."

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.

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.

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.

Washington Post Stephen Hunter

So loud, so long, so dumb.

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.

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.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

Straight viewing could result in brain damage.

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.

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

In stiff competition for the lamest thing ever put on celluloid.

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.