Without a Paddle

Hello my friends A friend of mine and me have just watched this movie... After 10 minutes have passed, we noticed that 6 of 6 jokes were not funny at all.. So we decided to drink some well tasty German beer in order to make us enjoy this crap! That didn't work out as well... We finally came to the conclusion that it isn't worth paying 3 € for a DVD, we've hardly seen.. After an hour of yawning, counting sheeps and snoring in the end, we realized that it wasn't worth the trouble! We hope we could have help you with your decision! Thomas and Jan from Germany :P

This is one of the worst movies i have ever seen. The plot is stupid and the actors are even worse. The humor is pathetic at best, this movie is in no way funny. Seth Green is a terrible actor and Matthew Lillard and Dax Sheppard are just as bad. This movie is so bad it makes a movie like "Good Burger" look like it should win an Oscar. Just when you think this movie cannot get any worse, Burt Reynolds appears. He has officially ruined the career he once had. This is the kind of movie that ruins an actor's future. I wish the obese men who chase them around the forest throughout this movie had succeeded in killing the three of them, it would have been the best ending to this catastrophe. This movie truly steals time from your life, i would rather watch "will and grace" for an hour and twenty minutes. When a movie like this comes out you need to wonder if the apocalypse is coming. Shame on everyone in involved in making this sad,shameful film.

this movie was like a mix of The Big Chill and City Slickers with a younger demographic. i really enjoyed this film and laughed quite a few times. i'm a fan of Seth Green's too and he was up to his usual standard. i have this film in my collection of DVD's and i'm glad i do. it's a fun, clever, pop-corn movie with some genuine laughs and light social satire. i was pleasantly surprised. i didn't even mind the two women in the tree, which fit the ambiance of this film. and that bear was hilarious too! was that Bart the bear? he works a lot! good to see what's his name get away from those Scooby-Doo films as well. it's a re watchable film in my opinion and i wouldn't mind seeing a sequel.

Total guy movie... it wasn't hilarious every second but i don't think it was supposed to be. 3 guys grow up together and then grow together on a long trip through the mountains. What they encounter and how they deal with it is what this is all about. Burt Reynolds has a small but not insignificant part and plays it out well. Something I noticed is that our culture is being exposed more and more the older it gets. The guys celebrate things that they were raised with and I'm sure will bring back any older "guy" to his past. And it wasn't "chick-ified"! 8/10.

An adventure of 3 guys doing a light hearted 'Deliverance' manages to fail in the adventure stakes. And every other one. This was absolutely tragic. Quite what Matthew Lillard and Seth Green, in particular, were thinking when they agreed to this is beyond me. 3 childhood friends united in their early 30s when their 4th member dies decide to realise his 'legacy' by going on a treasure hunt he planned in meticulous detail. It involves a canoe trip which goes predictably awry before the 3 are left to fend for themselves all the while being hunted by 2 rednecks with guns. And a bear. The plot is so feeble the above is a fairly generous synopsis, but it's not the only spectacular catastrophe on display. Every performance is absolutely artificial and vomit inducing. A little bit of OTT acting is to be expected in a popcorn adventure flick of this nature, but the portrayals should be sufficient for the audience to at least get sucked into the story. They're simply paltry here and nauseatingly unbelievable. Then you have the staple and boring direction which never grabs the pace of the film at all. This should be a fast and exciting movie, but its direction is purely default and bog standard. Then there's the 'comedy'. Sure, there are one or 2 genuinely amusing moments, heck one which actually got a laugh out of me, but overall the jokes are infantile. Actually, that's an insult to immature humour. The jokes are here simply contrived and painful. Add a vacuous and pointless cameo from Burt Reynolds and you have a completely dumb movie which fails miserably at everything it tries. Its only redeeming feature is the lovely Rachel Blanchard. Avoid.

If you're looking for a film that requires little or no thought but delivers good laughs in a "Road Trip" wilderness-type setting, then this is for you. Three idiosyncratic guys (includes Seth Green from "The Italian Job" and Matthew Lillard from "Scooby Doo")decide to go on an expedition in search of a lost treasure. Armed with a map, meager supplies, and generally no clue, they embark on their journey. On the way, you get the typical self-discoveries that can obviously only be made out in the middle of nowhere. Good footage is given of mountain terrain and whitewater rafting. "Without A Paddle" is abundant with silly laughs that make for good no-brainer adolescent entertainment. 6/10

And guess what? Without a Paddle's got one! Don't worry, it's got still got plenty of limp comedy where that came from. Let's count the clichés from the beginning eh? Three boys jump on a ramp, the last one (who happens to have asthma) FALLS DOWN! A timid doctor can't find the courage to ask a colleague out on a date! A well-meaning but negligent husband forget's his anniversary! Well if these aren't the signs of a promising movie. However, I'll hand it to you. Comedy movies don't need to be original. No, the only thing a comedy has to to is make you laugh, and Without a Paddle fails. The preview gave me a chuckle, this movie gave me social awkwardness as the nine to twelve year olds giggled at the surprisingly tame (considering the territory) humor. I've seen plenty of gross-out and teen comedies which I liked that were universally abhored by critics, but this is one instance where I can agree with them.

Out of all the movies I've seen, you can count the movies I've completely hated on one hand. 'Without a Paddle' just made that list. I have never been so tempted to walk out of a movie in my life. Within 30 minutes of 'Without a Paddle' I desperately wanted to get up and leave. But since I was with a group of friends, I had no choice but to squirm in my seat through the whole movie. It's one of those terrible movies where, instead of trying to be funny, it just tries to be gross, and it succeeds way too often. The main characters are a delinquent (Dax Shephard), a nerd (Seth Green), and a philosopher (Matthew Lilliard). Shephard's character is so degenerate and Green's character is so dorky that they are hard to like, while Lilliard's character is so less solid than the other two that it's hard to care. The movie starts out with the three, along with their best friend Billy, as children. Then the three grow up, Billy dies, and the whole movie goes down hill from there. As kids, the boys had planned a treasure hunt to find an escaped burglar and the place where he'd stashed his loot. After Billy dies, the other three decide to actually attempt the treasure hunt. They get into a canoe, get lost, and encounter a pair of psychotic marijuana farmers that chase them through the woods with guns and knives the rest of the movie, which is all stoner jokes, poop jokes, pee jokes, gay jokes, lesbian jokes, erection jokes, and gross-out jokes that AREN'T funny. 'Without a Paddle' attempts to develop a heart at the end of the movie, throwing in a moral about friendship and living life to its fullest, but it's already too late by then. 'Without a Paddle' does have its funny parts, BUT THEY'RE ALL IN THE PREVIEW! (Pardon my shouting.) If you're looking for a laugh, save yourself the time and money and just watch the trailer instead.

A junk movie, build on clichés pretending to be knowing allusions to earlier movies. Three friends meet in their tree-house after the fourth friend's funeral and agree to go on a quest to find D.B. Cooper's treasure. They get messed up by a whitewater river, a bear, gigantic biker pot-growers (better actors in their way than the main three guys), and a renegade sheriff. They get help from two beautiful hippy tree-huggers and Cooper's friend, a hermit in the mountains (Burt Reynolds, who has the best part in the movie). Along the way there is a lot of puerile humour, a lot of jokes and pratfalls, and self-discovery. There are a few very funny lines and a couple of clever situations, but it's largely a waste of time. The main actors are competent but not notable—Seth Green, who can be very funny, is wasted as the little timid small guy. Though the movie purports to take place in the Pacific Northwest—in Oregon—there are palm trees to be seen along the river-banks. The credits reveal it was shot on location in New Zealand.

I absolutely loved Without a Paddle.I was cracking up almost the entire movie. At first I saw it because I'm in love with Matthew Lillard and Seth Green, but now I'm seeing it again cause it was so funny.The movie had really great actors who really brought the movie to life. the jokes were hilarious. especially the teeth jokes.And I know for a fact that I wasn't the only person who enjoyed it. The entire theater was cracking up with me. The only people who left the movie were people who were more focused on the own conversations then the movie which is really idiotic anyway.And I still love Seth even though he was portrayed as a total dork and looks better as a guitar player and willow's boyfriend in Buffy.And I thought that Matt's proposal was the sweetest, even though his best performances are as an insane psychopath.