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Without a Paddle (2004)

Without a Paddle

Comedy

1 hr. 35 min.

Deliverance meets City Slickers in this Hollywood comedy about three hapless city-dwellers who go on a weekend canoe trip in search of an elusive $200K treasure.

Rated PG-13 for drug content, sexual material, language, crude humor and some violence.

Directed by:  Steven Brill

Starring:  Seth Green, Matthew Lillard, Dax Shepard, Abraham Benrubi, Rachel Blanchard

Theatrical Release Date:  8/20/2004

Release Type:  Wide

U.S. Box Office: $58,156,435

Video/DVD Release Date:  1/11/2005

Distributor:  Paramount Pictures

Country:  USA

Language:  English

Offsite:  IMDB | Official Site



CRITIC
RATING
QUOTE
Chicago Tribune
Sid Smith
4 Led by a trio of dumb, dumber and dumbest, "Without a Paddle" is a testosterone comedy that might just as well be titled "Without a Brain Cell."
E!
6 Funny enough, but we've walked these trails before.
filmcritic.com
David Levine
4 Without a Paddle: The year's most ingenious title. It speaks volumes about the creek we're headed up before the film even starts.
New York Post
Megan Lehmann
5 A likable trio of actors struggles valiantly but ultimately fails to keep this dopey buddy comedy afloat.
TV Guide
Angel Cohn
4 For a while this buddy comedy sails along smoothly on elements borrowed from THE GOONIES, DELIVERANCEand ROAD TRIP, but the relentlessly unimaginative script eventually leaves it becalmed.
Reel
Kim Morgan
4 ...a gassed-out running-gag of a movie.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
2 The story of three idiots who go searching for some random dead guy's buried treasure in the wilds of Oregon after one of their childhood buddies dies, Without a Paddle panders to the average filmgoer's most juvenile hang-ups and has the audacity to end on a dishonest, ridiculously sentimental note that celebrates life but punishes marijuana.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
1 ...a loathsome comedy...
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
4 Despite some agreeably idiotic moments, Without a Paddle is also mostly without a rudder. Its few memorable highlights end up floating haplessly in a genial but uninspired and watery plot.
People
Tom Gliatto
3 ...a lazy comedy with barely a wriggle of life. You wouldn't bait a hook with it.
LA Weekly
Robert Abele
2 ...plays like something even John Hughes would have left in the drawer.
Village Voice
Nathan Rabin
3 A half-hearted cocktail of nostalgia, male bonding, and poorly choreographed slapstick...
Maxim
Tony McMenamin
6 Although the comic turns run dry at times--and the story boasts all the originality of a "yo' mama" joke--the threesome manage enough bush gags to make Michael Moore pitch a tent.
     

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ALL AVERAGE CRITIC RATING 3.7
AVERAGE USER RATING
(1 rating)
4.0
USER REVIEWS:

madmitch  4

Been there, done that. It's goofy but that's about all.