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Without A Paddle (2004)

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Reviews Counted: 118 Fresh: 16  Rotten:102 Average Rating: 3.9/10
 
Consensus: Without a Paddle has a few laughs, but not enough to sustain its running time.
 

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Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins

Synopsis: In Steven Brill's WITHOUT A PADDLE, three friends embark on a hilariously dangerous adventure through the woods of the Pacific Northwest. When their childhood friend Billy dies, 30-year-old buddies Dan (Seth Green), Tom (Dax Shepard), and Jerry (Matthew Lillard) return home to pay their... In Steven Brill's WITHOUT A PADDLE, three friends embark on a hilariously dangerous adventure through the woods of the Pacific Northwest. When their childhood friend Billy dies, 30-year-old buddies Dan (Seth Green), Tom (Dax Shepard), and Jerry (Matthew Lillard) return home to pay their respects. While there, they unearth a map that Billy left behind, which may or may not lead to a hidden treasure. Dan is a germ-phobic doctor who would rather spend his time anywhere but in the wilderness, but the recently dumped Jerry and down-on-his-luck Tom are intent on fulfilling their friend's lifelong dream; and so begins the trio's journey. It isn't long before things begin to spiral out of control. Starting with a gigantic bear that mistakes Dan for one of its own, the guys are also on the run from two pot-growing maniacs (Ethan Suplee, Abraham Benrubi) who are looking for revenge after their marijuana farm is burned to a crisp. Of course, what would a wilderness expedition be without raging rapids, a towering waterfall, beautiful (but hairy) hippy chicks, and an encounter with a menacing mountain man (Burt Reynolds). Brill's madcap adventure gleefully references DELIVERANCE and 1980s pop culture, and features spot-on performances from Green, Lillard, and Shepard. [More]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Seth Green, Matthew Lillard, Dax Shepard, Burt Reynolds, Ethan Suplee

Director: Steven Brill
Screenwriter: Harris Goldberg, Mitch Rouse, Jay Leggett
Story: Fred Wolf, Tom Nursall
Producer: Donald De Line
Composer: Christophe Beck

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Sep 8, 2005

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That said, the three leads are appealing enough so that the film remains watchable and the whole thing is almost worth seeing just for Seth Green's C-3PO impressions.

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01/15/05
Matthew Turner
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While striving for a bit of liberalism (ain't we City types the real stoopid ones) almost every scene then throws in the towel and falls back on a clutch of unfunny country-livin' clichés.

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12/21/04
Ali Catterall
BBC
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Looks like yet another gross-out farce, but it's actually a genuinely engaging comic adventure.

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09/16/04
Rich Cline
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Gets into the male bonding mode with a casual, instinctive flair that breathes more life into the Steven Brill comedy than it may actually merit.

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05/15/07
Prairie Miller
Long Island Press
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12/30/06
Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel
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Without a Paddle is a sloppy effort, yet even a clichéd comedy could be fun if it actually delivered on laughs.

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11/17/06
Russ Breimeier
Christianity Today
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05/26/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
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09/30/05
Scott Nash
Three Movie Buffs
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A sloppy, lowest common denominator comedy

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04/14/05
Mark Pfeiffer
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema
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Average comedy, the acting is fine, but the script is pretty lame and it doesn't have a lot of good jokes.

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04/09/05
Robert Roten
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'Una de esas películas intrascendentes, de las que da lo mismo que existan o no'

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Jorge Avila Andrade
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The cast is pleasant, which is a reasonable adjective to describe the entire project.

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02/07/05
Forrest Hartman
Reno Gazette-Journal
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This is simply just another in a long line of lazy comedies.

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01/12/05
David Cornelius
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12/18/04
Anton Bitel
Movie Gazette
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As the three friends learn important lessons in animal husbandry and nature chicks, their biggest revelation is finding Burt Reynolds still hanging out by the river.

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10/11/04
John Larsen
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Without a Paddle is two movies -- one good and one bad -- merged together into a cinematic hodgepodge of hilarity, originality, banality and absurdity.

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09/22/04
Mike Ward
Richmond.com
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...one of the few surprises this summer.

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09/04/04
Tony Toscano
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Imagine Deliverance re-delivered as a Gen-X comedy, co-starring a hungry bear, two dope-growing rednecks and a mad mountain man (Burt Reynolds).

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09/03/04
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly
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