A shapeless slog with virtually no tale to chase.
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09/11/08
Surfer, Dude (2008)
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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:0
Rotten:18
Average Rating:2.8/10
Runtime: 85 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Matthew McConaughey stars in this film as Steve Addington, an A-list surfer who comes home to find Malibu has changed. Gone are the times when surfers lived just to catch a wave; now it's all about... [More]
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Willie Nelson, Alexie Gilmore
Director: S.R. Bindler
Reviews for Surfer, Dude
1 - 18 (sorted by comments; UK critics are listed first)
The film looks more like a collection of home movies as opposed to a professional piece of cinema.
11/05/08
It felt like we were watching a rough cut.
11/05/08
I wish the finished product was as amusing as the behind-the-scenes pot-fueled merriment I imagine took place during production.
09/15/08
[A] hapless, laughless movie.
09/15/08
Top CriticThe number of artistically successful surfing movies can be counted on one hand, and the majority of those are documentaries.
09/17/08
A total wipeout.
09/10/08
Yes, this is a movie made by stoners for stoners.
09/12/08
The problem that Surfer, Dude faces is that in its attempt to be a stoner comedy, it forgot to add the comedy elements.
03/05/09
I couldn't think of a less appealing advert for the way of the surf.
09/05/08
...limp and rambling picture, which crawls across the screen for about 30 minutes longer than it has any need to.
09/05/08
Surfer, Dude is a bizarre throwback. It feels 25-30 years out of date and seems to be meant to be watched on VHS, oops, make that DVD, while stoned.
09/12/08
Willie and ganja, yes, yes, the cliches abound.
09/12/08
You can stick around for the only funny line, which involves a breakfast burrito, but the smart surfer would head for the hills and Willie's goat ranch.
09/12/08
A celebration of unrealistic lifestyles, which makes it exactly the wrong film for our times. [Blu-ray]
12/28/08
There's something about the mystical-spiritual aura surrounding surfing that tends to turn most movies on the subject to hippie-dippie mush.
09/11/08
[A] lackluster vanity production.
09/09/08
Top CriticThe movie is about a surfer dude (sans comma), who is an analog dude trying to fit into a digital world, which is like trying to get a square peg into a Calabi-Yau Manifold, which is to say it probably won't work, and neither does this movie.
09/15/08
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