You can actually see the actors straining to figure out how to play this stuff.
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08/02/07
Hot Rod (2007)
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Reviews Counted:99
Fresh:38
Rotten:61
Average Rating:4.9/10
Consensus: A few funny scenes can't save the disjointed Hot Rod, which is too silly and sloppy to hold up.
Theatrical Release:28-09-2007
Synopsis: Amateur suburban stunt man Rod Kimble (SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE's Andy Samberg) believes he's destined to follow in the footsteps of his late father, who made test runs of Evel Knievel's stunts before... [More]
Starring: Andy Samberg, Isla Fisher, Jorma Taccone, Bill Hader
Director: Akiva Schaffer
Reviews for Hot Rod
Dementedly random moments make up for some of the more sluggish, thuggish elements.
08/02/07
A mashup of the random violence of Adam Sandler movies with the dimwittage of Will Ferrell's - and lacking the charms of both - Hot Rod never establishes its own personality.
08/02/07
Still, Hot Rod keeps a sweet tone that's filled with affection for its characters, and enough laughs to become this summer's most mildly recommendable comedy.
08/02/07
An oddball comedy that only seems to be funny for the people who made it. The audience, unfortunately, is left out on the joke.
08/02/07
Wait until the best parts pop up on YouTube.
08/02/07
Aims to be goofily anarchic...but it's sloppily written, lazily staged and annoyingly dumb...like a home movie slapped together by a bunch of half-addled bar pals.
08/02/07
Like a stuntman, Hot Rod is willing to screw up big time in its pursuit of total awesomeness.
08/02/07
There's no question Samberg has a future in movie comedy, but this caper amounts to a false start.
08/02/07
There are perhaps 10 to 15 minutes of good, gag-worthy material here stretched out to interminable lengths.
08/02/07
It isn't just throwing joke darts at a board in the hopes that a few stick. It's throwing them at the pool table, the bartender, your face, then dynamiting the wall to go after the building next door.
08/02/07
Here's a comedy with a Napoleon complex.
08/02/07
...just the sort of stuff an unapologetically idiotic comedy needs.
08/02/07
The absolute dregs of American comedy.
08/02/07
No one seems to have told the Lonely Island boys that the stakes are a little higher in features than they are in music videos, and that underlighted shots and sloppy editing are more distracting on the big screen than the TV monitor.
08/01/07
Andy Samberg falls down a lot in this high-concept, low-witted comedy.
08/01/07
Top CriticUltimately it’s Samberg, whose youthful enthusiasm and infectious goofiness has been one of SNL’s strongest assets of late, who makes the whole thing work.
08/01/07
The movie resorts to ripping off gags and jokes from other people and doesn't seem to be able to come up with anything on its own.
08/01/07
Samberg’s penchant for subversively silly asides certainly hints that he’s capable of being more than a Will Ferrell or Adam Sandler clone. Now he just needs to find a film that won’t fall apart around him.
08/01/07
Silly at best, stupid at worst, and surprisingly unfunny overall, Hot Rod is a classic example of what's wrong with 'SNL.'
07/31/07
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