Movie Review: Without a Paddle
Without a Paddle features 3 actors that I kinda dig in random comedies...Dax Sheppard (of PUnk'd fame), Matthew Lilliard (sp) (from Hackers) and Seth Green (hello...can you say Austin Powers??)...so I actuallyhad pretty high hopes for this comedy.
WELL...let me tell you...formulaic doesn't even begin to explain the half of it.
The 3 guys were childhood buddies and are forced to reunite upon the death of their 4th childhood buddy. They find their old treehouse and decide as a group they're going to find some Random Old Dude's Lost Treasure...jobs and girlfriends and real life be damned.
Let's see...Seth Green plays the piddly nerdy guy...BAD choice of roles. He's better off being the snot-faced brat we've seen him as. Matthew Lilliard plays this responsible wall-street type...wtf is that about?! Did the casting director not SEE Hackers or Scoopy Do? This guy is best at playing oddball freaks. And Dax playing the screwup of the bunch is just depressing.
So of COURSE Seth Green thinks it's a bad idea and complains the entire time. And of COURSE their journey into nature goes downhill...apparently when this movie was made (2004?), cell phones were very rare because only one of the three guys had one. Which...NATURALLY...gets consumed by a bear.
Hijinx ensue, including being chased by some pot growers with guns, meeting gorgeous tree hugging hippies, and getting saved by some wilderness dude played by Burt Reynolds.
I can't tell you exactly how it ends because at this point my netflix rental totally got jacked up in the DVD so I had to return it. Needless to say, the moral of the movie was that the "treasure" isn't money...it's about appreciate life, this moment, and making it last.
Whatever. Try telling a homeless person to choose between a meaningful life or money and i'm sure they'll pick the latter. Heck, I would.
2 comments:
Sabina sabina Sabina. I really loved that movie. I thought it was way funny. I seen it a long time ago though when it came out. I think I actually rented again when I 1st joined nexflix. Anyway what they're trying to say is. Unlike a homeless person they already had some decent regular things in life. The wealth or "riches" aren't everything.
Of course if the choice is being homeless or having money of course my choice is going to be take money..who wouldn't. But the "treasure" of life is the personal relationships & memories you have along the way in your life...cheesy enough for you.
Come on now. If you didn't live in such an expensive part of the United States you wouldn't need as much money to have the type of life style you lead right now. Because we live here in this incredibly expensive state is why usually households need dual incomes to afford the lifestyles we lead.
I am right here with you though living in a relatively expensive area.
Yeah, and I'm saying that it was overly contrived. I expect ALOT more from movies with Seth Green in it, because it was very 80s-ish...by now, that kind of comedy should have more humor and wit to it.
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