mike48128
Moonshine running hillbillies from Georgia! Worst actor award goes to Burt Reynolds. Best body award goes to Jessica Simpson. She is extremely short and it's hard to get that lean and muscular and she hasn't ever been in such good shape since! So her acting is only fair. Who cares? More skimpily under-dressed women than a Victoria's Secret fashion show! Twenty-six Dodge Chargers were used to create the illusion that the car is indestructible. The trim varies so much because both 1968 and 1969 models were used? (Pretty sloppy.) Great stunt-work and kudos to the stunt car drivers. Somehow not as thrilling as I remember it way back in 2005 when I was barely 30. A lot of dirty low-class cussin' going on and it's annoying. The TV series was not like that. An amazingly large number of continuity goofs. Car parts are dented and undented and fall off and reappear. The Confederate Flag causes a lot of trouble and is universally disliked, just like now. It's hardly shown. Unusual that the General Lee appears to be an automatic, not a shifter? Willie Nelson is a great asset as he doesn't take this movie too seriously, and you shouldn't either. Most of the cast seems to be having a good time, including "Flash" The Basset Hound. According to the critic's reviews, this is one of the most hated movies of all time? Personally, I would give that dubious "honor" to "Dune".
Davis P
The Dukes of Hazzard (2005) is a big screen adaptation of the Redneck loving 100% country 70s show. It stars Jonny Knoxville, Seann William Scott, Jessica Simpson, Burt Reynolds, and famed country singer Willie Nelson. The plot is pretty typical of movie adaptations of classic television shows. The villain is plotting a cartoon like scheme against the protagonists. Then the good guys of course thwart the villain in a big prolonged action sequence. So yes, it is predictable. If you dislike predictable films, then you might as well stop reading. To me, the first half of the movie was a waste, it could and should have been a whole lot better. The second half is better, but still not up to the standards I personally hold films to. The positives of the film are Willie Nelson, Burt Reynolds, and the final action sequence, I thought those aspects of the film were well done. The negatives unfortunately outweigh the positives. Jessica Simpson's character, Daisy Duke, was such a waste, she could've been a clever character, but instead literally the only purpose she served was to be a sex object the male characters could ogle at and make comments about. And also another negative was the fact that there wasn't a single joke that worked here, I didn't laugh or even chuckle once, every single gag/joke feel completely flat. Overall I give it a 5/10. Like I said, mixed bag, but I personally do not recommend it.
SnoopyStyle
Cousins Luke (Johnny Knoxville) and Bo (Seann William Scott) are moonshine runners driving the General Lee. With their sexy cousin Daisy (Jessica Simpson) and Uncle Jesse (Willie Nelson), they must save the family farm from the evil plans of Boss Hogg (Burt Reynolds).With the directions of Jay Chandrasekhar and Jackass' Johnny Knoxville and Stifler, I had some outside hopes of a wacky outlandish parody. The concept was always questionable. The other way would be to go serious with more dark realism which I do NOT recommend. The original Dukes of Hazzard was more of a silly TV show. Trying anything serious would be perilous. Seeing who got cast, silly was the only hope. It started meekly with gun toting angry father and brother, a bar fight, and a General Lee jump. It's a weak parroting parody of the old TV show. Then comes the evil scheme and the movie loses any chance for a laugh. Unless you're a die hard fan of the original, there's no point in watching this. If you're a die hard fan, it might hurt your memories. OK! Everybody should avoid this.
elshikh4
Here's an opinion from someone who adores the TV show.Jessica Simpson isn't Daisy Duke (Horrible legs by the way, HORRIBLE!). Burt Reynolds isn't Boss Hogg; Reynolds looks like a stinking corpse, stinking as both drunk and musty. If it wasn't for his white outfit; he could have been unseen. He's deprived here of everything; presence, wit, capability of speak! Where was Danny DeVito for god's sake ?! Johnny Knoxville as Luke Duke and Seann William Scott as Bo Duke have nothing to do with the original characters unless their ages. They seem like dumb, sex maniac, and foul-mouthed kids which is faraway from the original 2 Dukes. Maybe this is the 2000s cinematic interpretation of them then! In this bothering manner, M.C. Gainey as Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane was mean, just mean; whether as a different interpretation, or a try to squeeze any comedy out of the comic series ! Junior Brown as The balladeer / narrator was palely written, with no memorable character or funny remarks. Lynda Carter as Pauline didn't do anything at all. I don't know what the need for her character was in the first place?! As long as we talk about the same TV show, I don't recall a character by the name, and of course the antics, of Derek "Sheev" Sheevington (played by Kevin Heffernan). Most probably it's an addition from this movie's director Jay Chandrasekhar inspired by his previous, absolutely UGLY, comedy (Super Troopers – 2001) where Kevin Heffernan played a very imbecile, very disgusting Vermont state trooper named Farva. So why not to remake it under the name of Sheev, and in the world of The Dukes of Hazzard, sorry; this less innocent, more filthy alternative world of The Dukes of Hazzard ?!!! So the casting sucked, rather shocked. And the changes sure stretched to damage big part of the show's authentic taste. Take for little instance the TV show's sweet elegance. It used to have the sexist gals at the time, even for the cameos, while here the 2 girlfriends of the 2 leads look away from that. For bigger instance; seeing Uncle Jesse, the head of wisdom in the TV show, smocking weed reminded me with the transformation of Huggy Bear, the street hustler / bar's owner of another 70s-80s TV show Starsky & Hutch, into florid pimp in the very show's cinematic remake, one year earlier. I was surprised (or not) when I knew that the 2 remakes were written by the same guy : John O'Brien. Clearly he wanted to take the known-by-heart characters into the next level. But why that next level had to be dirty ?! The original Dukes of Hazzard was a kids show, with teen jokes, and adult chases I suppose. Now we follow a teen everything, even Jessica Simpson looks like a 14 year old girl (who wears her mother's makeup heavily !). They thought that by adding endless, and needless, F words, pot smoking, sex jokes, plus Sheev character; the movie would work fine with the audiences of 2005, with naturally the demographic of today's teens, or – according to this movie's mindset – today's empty-headed teens. Nevertheless, they – the producers – forgot that the audiences of the from-1979-to-1985 TV show, who where kids back then, became parents by 2005, so most of them must have felt nauseated and turned off out of the casting, the changes, and the way things run this round.So aside from losing the show's moral code, the movie lost considerably the old glamorous touch, in many ways, which did annoy badly, especially without compensating it with as good or better new stuff. That's why all the original Dukes (Tom Wopat, John Schneider and Catherine Bach) declined the offer of having cameos in this movie according only to reading its script. I believe they found their show's name but not its spirit, with sauciness instead of suaveness.All that being said, the rest of the movie is a nice action. The script led the matter as unceasing light ride from start to finish, with interweaving cleverly the mission of saving the title characters' hometown, along with the big car race, and the final trial where all the facts around Boss's evilness expose. The action is very well made; hence it was entirely – if not shamefully – unfair from the Razzie's judges to nominate Jay Chandrasekhar for the worst director of the year. Without his eye for the good chases, and the heart-capturing jumps, this movie could have been far from watchable, and far from the TV show as well ! Willie Nelson as Uncle Jesse Duke was the only casting's shot to be aimed rightly. He was fit as the real Uncle Jesse, and provided fun on-screen time. I had a blast while hearing the show's beautiful theme song at the closing credits. Loyal before nostalgic that was. Yet, this movie shortly destroyed that feeling by showing the bloopers, like Burt Reynolds's car movies of the 1980s, where totally unfunny and gross stuff were being thrown at us like Seann William Scott complaining in laughter about Johnny Knoxville "He showed me his BALLS" !!! Actually that's the problem with this movie; not swerving away the harmless TV show inasmuch as making a layer of good, followed by a layer of ugly. Waylon Jennings, the TV show's balladeer, used to sing "Just two good ole boys..", well, I think they should have changed it also to be "Just two ribald teens.." ! Simply, this movie's teen glee wasn't amusing. Thank god that the movie's rest was.
