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Without a Paddle COMEDY
Directed by....Steven Brill
Superstars: Dax Shepard (mtv-couldn't really find much more info about him), Matthew Lillard (scooby doo), & Seth Green (Buffy, AustinPowers, Party Monster...).
Let's see....
I saw this movie with two 12 year old girls and I won't lie to you dear readers...they thought it was 'really stupid'. Not me. I thought it was entirely a whole lot of 'ok'. I snickered out loud on several occasions and I do believe I got caught off guard with a lil' snort too. This in my book is a good thing.
3 friends are brought back together after a 4th adventure loving friend has a tragic parasailing (?) accident and dies. It's all memory lane from there and they all decide to go on one last adventure (for dead friend's sake).
(begin 'adventure')
Bear attack, weed harvesters, hippies, love in a cave, crazy mountian man, TREASURE. wholy shit where'd that come from? I so saw that coming a mile away. Moral fibre. Love your friends. blah blah blah. Live life don't let it pass you by.
(/'adventure')
very essence of goonies, meets I don't know what but the predicableness was made pallatable and quite frankly delicious by one Mr. Green.
I give kudos and two big fat caesarian thumbs up to Seth Green and his UBER awesomeness. This will quickly turn into a Seth Green love tribute except for the fact that he practically stole the show. I just saw him for the 3rd time in Party Monster and going from Party Monster to Without A Paddle is quite impressive.
I would see this movie for the sheer fact that Seth Green is a very admirable actor and molds himself to any character he plays.
The other lads are awesome too.
I would reccommend this movie as a group outing, or if you're in the mindset that you have some time to kill and don't care what you do. As far as 12 year old girls go they didn't appreciate it so much so I think this would be more of a male bonding kinda film.
The forests of cheese are abundant but I give my neutural 6/10 just cos it was worth it.
Oh yeah... and cos of the trailer for Team America World Police. YEAH MATT AND TREY.