Genre: Mystery, Adventure, Comedy, Suspense, On The Road, Love, Animals, Doctor
Tagline: The call of the wild, the thrill of adventure. The mistake of a lifetime.
Plot: When childhood buddies Dan (Seth Green), a successful but neurotic doctor; Jerry (Matthew Lillard), a business high-flier on the edge of burnout; and Tom (Dax Shepard), a Harley-riding wild child; reunite in Oregon at their friend Billy’s funeral, their reunion kicks off more than a little nostalgia. While reminiscing in their childhood tree house, the trio discovers that Billy had been pursuing their boyhood dreams of finding legendary bank robber DB Cooper’s $200,000 stash. Now with the map Billy left behind and a cereal box compass, Dan, Jerry and Tom decide to fulfill their friend’s dream and go on a canoe trip to find Cooper’s cash.But when they find themselves hassled by the sheriff at “the corner of Podunk and you-got-a-purty-mouth,” treed by a huge brown bear who mistakes one of them for her cub, chased by vicious Rottweilers named Lynyrd and Skynyrd, hunted as prey by pot farmers whose crop they accidentally destroy, and battling terrifying rapids down a raging river in a canoe about to plummet over a waterfall, they begin to wonder which of their ideas was worse searching in the wilderness for Cooper’s cash, or believing it ever existed in the first
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 Without a Paddle is so bad that it will annoy and/or bore those who have minimal standards and a high tolerance for sewage. This is such an affront to good cinematic taste that those involved should find themselves unable to work in Hollywood for a long time. And the best thing for the potential consumer to do is to avoid it during its hopefully brief theatrical run and when it makes its appearance on video store shelves. Let the flies buzz around it instead.  --James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
You can say of "Without a Paddle" that at least it cares enough to steal from the very best. Unfortunately, that's about all it cares about.--Stephen Hunter (Washington Post)
A perfect example of a late August summer comedy, "Without a Paddle" is a disastrous collection of hackneyed jokes, clumsy and unfunny performances, and the film actually goes to fecal matter for a sight gag. The filmmakers even try to hammer home a message of friendship in the middle of all this garbage. "Paddle" is as unpleasant as a throwaway comedy can get. D---Brian Orndorf (FilmJerk.com)
‘Without a Paddle’ utilizes a well-worn framework to create a totally refreshing comedy of fellowship.  --Joe Rickey (Movie-Gurus.com)
Although it has its moments, Without a Paddle ultimately disappoints by not being nearly as good as the tales from which it draws inspiration. My recommendation -- if you absolutely must see it, -- wait for video, and fast forward through every scene in which the hillbillies rear their ugly heads. Without a Paddle is also without solid laughs, without fresh characterizations, and for much of the running length, without much of a clue.  --Vince Leo (Qwipster.net)
Without a Paddle: The year’s most ingenious title. It speaks volumes about the creek we’re headed up before the film even starts. Paddle finds its roots in Deliverance, though this updated version clearly has no intention to follow the gravity of its master. To compare the two would be shameful.  --David Levine (FilmCritic.com)
Stupid, juvenile, silly, simplistic, moronic...any of these shortcomings can be easily forgiven when a movie truly makes with the LAUGHS. "Without a Paddle" has maybe two - the ones from the trailer. And those are more like charitable chuckles than sincere giggles.  --Scott Weinberg (eFilmCritic.com)
...an unfunny, outrageously simple-minded adventure-comedy that irritates, offends and bores, all at once. F--Eric D. Snider (EricDSnider.com)
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Fred Wolf
Black Sheep, Saturday Night Live, Saturday Night Live | Harris Goldberg
Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, The Master of Disguise, Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo |
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| It looks like the filmmakers just don’t realize that they’ve embarked on the movie making exercise with their comedic tank just barely half full. 61/100 --Brian Webster (Apollo Guide)
The story suggests a satire of "Deliverance," but its humor is not satirical. It plays like a juvenile coming-of-age farce - "Stand by Me" meets "American Pie" - but the main characters are close to 30 years old!  --Elizabeth Weitzman (New York Daily News)
All in all, nobody's going to win an Oscar for this movie, but it does get the job done in terms of providing some easy-going, immature laughs, three personable leads, sexual innuendo & redneck jokes and an inspired choice in Dax Shepard. 5/10--'JoBlo' (JoBlo.com)
Less slapstick than its trailers would suggest, "Without a Paddle" benefits from the camaraderie of its three lead actors but never rises above the level of harmless video fare --Megan Lehmann (New York Post)
Without a Paddle won't be known for being a great comedy or even a hilarious one, but has a few nice moments and a harmless air about itself; you could do a lot worse at this time of the year. C+--Craig Younkin (Lee's Movie Info)
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