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Strange Wilderness

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Strange Wilderness (2008)

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Reviews Counted: 35 Fresh: 0  Rotten:35 Average Rating: 2.2/10
 
Consensus: Aimless and laugh-free. Strange Wilderness is a laugh-free comedy that's both aimless and overly crass. more
 
Rated: 15
Runtime: 3 hrs 7 mins
Theatrical Release: 11-04-2008
Synopsis:
From the production team that brought you HAPPY GILMORE and BILLY MADISON comes this amiable, foul-mouthed "nature" comedy. Steve Zahn--sporting his best burned-out surfer dude drawl--leads a ragtag crew of wasted nature documentarians deep into the Ecuadorian forest on a quest for the... [More]
From the production team that brought you HAPPY GILMORE and BILLY MADISON comes this amiable, foul-mouthed "nature" comedy. Steve Zahn--sporting his best burned-out surfer dude drawl--leads a ragtag crew of wasted nature documentarians deep into the Ecuadorian forest on a quest for the legendary Bigfoot. Constantly being rousted for their drunken ineptitude and ill-informed voiceover narrations, the boys need a break to boost their ratings and Bigfoot might be it; all they have to do is remember to load the camera and not get eaten (especially by a certain turkey). Allen Covert, SUPERBAD's Jonah Hill, Justin Long, and Kevin Heffernan are the crew. Harry Hamlin is a rival bigfoot tracker. Ashley Scott (INTO THE BLUE) provides the ubiquitous foxy babe interest. Ernest Borgnine, Robert Patrick, and Joe Don Baker show up in bit parts. A sort of low-rent LIFE AQUATIC, WILDERNESS is such a fall-down farce that viewers might forget they're not cracking jokes while watching ANIMAL PLANET with their cronies instead of seeing a real movie, but maybe that's a good thing. Former SNL scribe Fred Wolf (JOE DIRT) directs, keeping it as ramshackle and rough around the edges as the law will allow. STRANGE WILDERNESS may not be pretty, but it earns a load of laughs through its sheer mullet-headed recklessness. [Less]

Genre: Television

Starring: Steve Zahn, Allen Covert, Jonah Hill, Kevin Heffernan, Ashley Scott

Director: Fred Wolf
Screenwriter: Peter Gaulke, Fred Wolf
Producer: Peter Gaulke
Composer: Waddy Wachtel

DVD Info

Release:

Mar 5, 2010

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Anamorphic Widescreen

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English, French, Spanish
  • Subtitles - English, French, Spanish - Optional

Additional Release Material:

  • Additional Footage - 1. Four Things
  • 2. Pete Yells at Debbie
  • 3. Judy
  • 4. Lawson
  • 5. Pet Perv
  • 6. Interviews
  • 7. Not Fans
  • 8. Cooker Song: America
  • 9. Dentist
  • 10. Immigration
  • 11. Tattooed Boobs
  • 12. Pier
  • 13. Beaver/ Moose
  • Featurettes - 1. COOKER'S SONG
  • 2. THE TURKEY
  • 3. WHAT DO WE DO?
  • 4. REEL COMEDY: STRANGE WILDERNESS

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Really not very funny. Unless you're a moronic frat boy who's been smoking a lot of wacky backy, in which case it's probably hilarious.

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04/11/08 09:34 AM
Daniel Etherington
Channel 4 Film
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Strange Wilderness is a never-ending bundle of self-consciously raunchy skits aimed at under-achieving slackers who are too high to notice how desperately pathetic it all is.

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04/11/08 09:19 AM
Ken McIntyre
Total Film
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There's nothing in this lame, low budget stoner flick that even peeps above the parapet of the ordinary.

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04/11/08 08:32 AM
Paul Arendt
BBC
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A comedy wilderness.

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04/11/08 08:06 AM
Tim Evans
Sky Movies
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About as funny as watching a cute animal die a long slow death - and probably as painful.

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04/11/08 04:40 AM
Glen Ferris
Empire Magazine
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A few cute gags aside, this is an exercise in stupidity aimed at those who find 15 different names for a bong to be funny.

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05/10/08 05:01 PM
Ryan Cracknell
Movie Views
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'Strange Wilderness' isn't funny enough to produce anything more than a few slight chuckles. We mostly groan and squirm in our seats while watching it.

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03/16/08 05:52 AM
Frank Wilkins
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
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...worthless garbage...

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02/18/08 12:02 AM
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review
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Maybe the screenwriters were chemically altered when they decided that this stoner comedy was funny.

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02/09/08 07:13 PM
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
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Even though this raucous, low-low-lowbrow comedy hits theaters early in the year, I'm thinking the race for bottom-feeder of 2008 is, if not over, at least well under way.

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02/08/08 12:34 PM
Larry Ratliff
San Antonio Express-News
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The thing looks like it was shot over the course of six random (weed-filled) weekends, probably for fun at first, but then someone got the idea to release this glorified home movie into theaters. Bad idea.

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02/08/08 08:28 AM
Scott Weinberg
Cinematical
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Slinks its way in and out of theaters without leaving any trace of its passage besides a distinct tang in the air of flop sweat and sorrow.

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02/07/08 08:49 PM
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy
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No snob to low-brow ridiculousness when it's actually unexpected, I'll admit to being amused exactly once.

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02/05/08 04:23 PM
Aaron Hillis
Village Voice
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This farcical comedy is a Morlock of a movie--an ugly, subhuman dirt-dweller.

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02/05/08 07:10 AM
Frank Lovece
Film Journal International
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The cinematography and sound work are mediocre, but still far better than the material deserves: you can still see and hear what's happening on the screen.

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02/05/08 05:56 AM
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion
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At least Gaulke and Wolf didn't have to go far to kill their reputation: During the jungle piranha attack scene, a mallard floats by in the background.

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02/05/08 04:34 AM
Amy Nicholson
Boxoffice Magazine
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This movie is designed for an audience that likes gross-out humour and endless silliness.

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02/04/08 02:12 PM
Philip Marchand
Toronto Star
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The use of found footage intended to match-edit their locales, along with the use of wildlife animal scenes, is so crude that I want to call this an exploitation film. (Of nature, that is.)

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02/04/08 10:04 AM
Matthew Sorrento
Film Threat
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Despite the presence of funny guys such as Zahn, Garlin, Justin Long and Jonah Hill, along with veteran character actors Ernest Borgnine, Joe Don Baker and Robert Patrick, the movie fails to be even passably funny.

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02/04/08 09:55 AM
Kevin Crust
Los Angeles Times
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There are stupid stoner comedies and then there are stupid stoner comedies that ain't funny, and the latest effluvium from Adam Sandler's Happy Madison production company is mostly a bummer.

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02/04/08 09:50 AM
Ty Burr
Boston Globe
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