The Dukes of Hazzard (Unrated) [HD DVD]
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• Dolby
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• Subtitled
• Widescreen
In Theaters : 01 January, 2005
DVD Release : 11 July, 2006 |
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The Dukes of Hazzard (Unrated) [HD DVD] Customer Reviews
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Not as bad as you would think, not as good as you might hope
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I'm not a fan of the old show, but enough of it floated through the cultural ether for me to get the general jist: two wily Southern boys with a outlaw mentality outwit the local corrupt establishment in a cool car. The movie is only vaguely related to that concept. Here, two guys with Southern accents as consistent as a flickering bulb bumble around doing mildly illegal stuff and are once again set against a corrupt local establishment. They are no longer smooth characters, they are, as another reviewer noted, kinda dumb (as Seann Williams notes in the outtakes when his cousin shares a pretty intense liplock with the girl he has secretly been shagging supposedly behind the back of smitten Williams's character--Oh, I'm a moron!), and rescued from the consequences of all their actions by deux ex machina.
A particularly awkward set of scenes is where they take heat for the politically incorrect Southern battle flag on the roof of the General Lee. If the filmmakers wanted to take on the split cultural significances of the Stars and Bars, they should not simply played them for cheap laughs.
But cheap laughs are the best part of this movie. And on that basis, I was well amused. I'm not surprised to learn that the director of the gutbusting (and far superior) Supertroopers was involved here. At its best, Dukes of Hazzard has that devil may care absurdist glee about it. It would have been a lot better if they had gone the whole hog and taken a really meta-revisionist axe to the project, making Williams and Knoxville latter day romantics about the legendary Dukes. For one thing, then we'd be spared the accents.
So, on the one hand, this is the worst kind of shallow strip mining of cultural artifacts. On the other, its an entertaining romp with a likeable cast and a deft comedic hand at the stern. If in doubt, catch it on cable. I doubt I'll ever watch it again, but I don't regret the time spent with it either. |
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