I come to bury "The Dukes of Hazzard," not to praise it. It is truly a sad state of affairs when I can say with utmost sincerity that Jessica Simpson's performance is the highlight of this movie. Though I may paraphrase Shakespeare, no sane person would expect that from this flick. Truth be told, I didn't really expect it to be any good, but the 10-year-old boy in me was kind of looking forward to it. Now the 10-year-old is ticked off. Read the full review
Based on in the 1979-85 television series, "good ol' boy" cousins Bo and Luke Duke, eye-catching cousin Daisy and moonshine-running Uncle Jesse try to save the family farm from the clutches of Hazzard County's corrupt commissioner, Boss Hogg. Along the way they elude dimwitted Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane in their famed 1969 orange Dodge Charger, the "General Lee."
Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Seann William Scott, Jessica Simpson, Burt Reynolds, Willie Nelson
Run time: 106 minutes
Release date: August 5, 2005
Rating: PG-13 for sexual content, crude and drug-related humor, language and comic action violence.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: D-
"It's every bit as bad as you thought it'd be. Only worse."
Austin American-Statesman: 3 of 5 stars
"Dukes is good fun. And I ain't just whistling Dixie."
Cox News Service: D
"Jessica Simpson could've taken off all her clothes and it wouldn't have helped this movie."
Middletown Journal: D-
"... an onslaught of stupidity — the wrong kind of stupidity."
The Palm Beach Post: D
"... an unnecessary, mind-numbing big-screen version of the good ol' boys, car-stunt TV series."
The Palm Beach Post "Flick Chick"
"Like those stupid botched remakes of Bewitched, I Spy and Wild, Wild West, ... it's gotta get cute, camping it up or dumbing it down or showing the naivete of it, or when that fails, just throwing a bunch of boobies on the screen."
