The Dukes of Hazzard
2005 Directed by Jay Chandrasekhar
Synopsis
Cousins. Outlaws. Thrillbillies.
Bo and Luke Duke are southern cousins. In Hazzard County, Bo and Luke help their Uncle Jesse and their sexy cousin Daisy run the Moonshine business and always getting into trouble with Sherriff Roscoe P. Coltrane and recklessly driving in their orange car "General Lee". Boss Hogg, the mean and corrupt local county commissioner who hates The Dukes evicts The Dukes from their farm. Bo and Duke travels to Atlanta and meets up with old friend Katie Johnson and her friend Annette as they set out to find out why Boss Hogg has evicted them from their farm and what he plans to do. With local ace race car driver Billy Prickett in town to take part in the Annual Hazzard Road Race rally, Bo and Luke sets out to save their farm and foil Boss Hogg's scheme
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The world has misjudged this film because they are not the audience for it. They don't get it, and it's not their fault.
See, there's a group of people who don't care for the idea of the Dukes. They're not amused one bit. This film is not for them.
Then there's a group of people who grew up liking the show. But they grew up on seasons 2-7, when the boys were honorable, Roscoe was an idiot, Jesse was a wise chieftain, and everything worked out in the end. Those people took offense at this movie. They see it as defecating on their family-friendly memories -- the very problem about which the actor who played the original Cooter complained. This…
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Magnificent. Fun for the whole family. I found myself jubilant with every rev of the General Lee's engine! Knoxville proves he's no jackass with his moving performance in the role of Luke.
Two Thumbs Up.
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I don't have any connection to the original tv series whatsoever. I have seen a few clips, might recognise a few actors in it if they were shown to me but other than that, it's not something I could identify with. So I basically went into this film without any knowledge/baggage (however you want to look at it).
What I am then presented with is a rather silly, occasionally funny, kinda bland buddy-movie. Knoxville and Scott seemed to have good chemistry but the impression I had was that Chandrasekhar didn't seem to have very much faith in Knoxville. He was there to provide a few laughs and jokes, which left an awful lot of the film that needed to be…
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Pretty entertaining. Nothing special. Would have given it a 3 but Jessica Simpson playing Daisy Duke just made that extra star.
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So much potential. So much talent. Where did all of it go wrong? This should've been one of my favorite movies of all time, but it lands on the shit list. Jessica S was still hot, Stiffler should always be hilarious, Knoxville is Knoxville and the Bandit is the baddie. M.C. Gainey is completely miscast. David Koechner should've been Rosco not Cooter. Sometimes when you put all the right pieces together they just don't fit. Oh, and the fact that there are no jokes in the film also hurt it's chances.
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Magnificent. Fun for the whole family. I found myself jubilant with every rev of the General Lee's engine! Knoxville proves he's no jackass with his moving performance in the role of Luke.
Two Thumbs Up.
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1.5/10
With all due respect to mentally disabled people, this movie seems to have been made by a retarded guy. It was absolutely horrible and ridiculous in every possible way. Actually, if there was one thing that at least made me chuckle a couple of times was Seann William Scott, but just because I like the guy, not because of something related to this crap.
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Okay, I was a huge fan of the show as a child, had the toys, etc etc. I may be biased, but this one was pretty good. I liked Knoxville and Scott as the Dukes, but it was Willie that stole the show: he was great. I even thought Simpson did alright, but her only real job in this film was to look hot, which she did.
The chase scenes were great and I even love the bit they did with that famous car in today's PC world.
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Pretty entertaining. Nothing special. Would have given it a 3 but Jessica Simpson playing Daisy Duke just made that extra star.
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It's nothing special, but there are some amusing stunts, and it's kind of a stealth Broken Lizard film, with most of those guys showing up at one point or another (including a fun SUPER TROOPERS scene reference with some campus cops).
Also, Burt! and Willie!
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Thinking back to this film I wonder if having a better lead actor than Johnny Knoxville would have improved this film. The answer would probably be no, but it might have helped.
The film fails to capture what the TV show did - the right blend of humour and action. Instead the jokes are preticable and the action is poor at best. -
Did anyone think this was going to be the next Amadeus or Schindler's List when they saw it? No. It does though,do exactly what it says on the tin,it makes you smile and transports you back to the eighties and a time when a cool car and a hot chick were all that mattered.
This return to a series and those ideas of tongue-in-cheek humour ,and lets face it an iconic car known the world over this delivered what anyone who had seen the series expected. Lots of fun and Jessica Simpson was smokin in those denim shorts. Another guilty pleasure,just enjoy the car chases and Daisy's arse. -
The world has misjudged this film because they are not the audience for it. They don't get it, and it's not their fault.
See, there's a group of people who don't care for the idea of the Dukes. They're not amused one bit. This film is not for them.
Then there's a group of people who grew up liking the show. But they grew up on seasons 2-7, when the boys were honorable, Roscoe was an idiot, Jesse was a wise chieftain, and everything worked out in the end. Those people took offense at this movie. They see it as defecating on their family-friendly memories -- the very problem about which the actor who played the original Cooter complained. This…
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I don't have any connection to the original tv series whatsoever. I have seen a few clips, might recognise a few actors in it if they were shown to me but other than that, it's not something I could identify with. So I basically went into this film without any knowledge/baggage (however you want to look at it).
What I am then presented with is a rather silly, occasionally funny, kinda bland buddy-movie. Knoxville and Scott seemed to have good chemistry but the impression I had was that Chandrasekhar didn't seem to have very much faith in Knoxville. He was there to provide a few laughs and jokes, which left an awful lot of the film that needed to be…