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Without a Paddle (2004)

Comedy | 95 minutes
2,75 680 votes

Genre: Comedy / Adventure

Duration: 95 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Steven Brill

Stars: Seth Green, Matthew Lillard and Dax Shepard

IMDb score: 5,9 (53.684)

Releasedate: 20 August 2004

Without a Paddle plot

"The call of the wild. The thrill of adventure. The mistake of a lifetime."

Three big-city friends (Green, Lillard, Shepard) take a canoe down the Columbia River, which flows through the forests of Washington. Their recently deceased friend, Billy, was obsessed with the story of the 1971 airliner that crashed with $200,000 on board. In 1980, 5,800 were recovered, the story goes that the pilot tried to steal the rest by jumping from the plane with a large part of the money, probably resulting in death. The three want to see if they can find the money, but they soon find out that their canoe trip goes wrong ........

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Finding a good American comedy is like looking for a four-leaf clover: picking grass at random and hoping you don't have too many weeds with you. A 'Without a paddle' is a thistle, which painfully exposes what is wrong with the humor from across the pond: a total lack of subtlety. The canoe trip is a series of crass jokes and silly adventures, including a passage past Burt Reynolds. This seems to be a reference to that other canoe film Deliverance, which was slightly better.

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scorsese

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Mediocre film about three old childhood friends who go on a journey to find a crashed plane with a load of money. A comedy with an adventurous slant (which is still somewhat entertaining, especially for that reason). The humor is mostly on the bland side and the characters don't know how to captivate (something the cast doesn't really improve on either). A narrow 2.5 stars.

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Shadowed

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Mme.

Nice comedy film to fill an average Friday night. These kinds of films have to rely mainly on the adventure and the cast, because otherwise there will be nothing to it. What the film does well in any case is to find the right basis. In this way we quickly have an adventurous event that also has a real direction.

As a director, you do quite well when you can get Green, Lillard and Shepard side by side. Separately, they are also quite nice actors that I can regularly appreciate. In this case, they disappointed me a bit. They certainly try their best, but I get the impression that all the buzz in the background repeatedly overwhelms their acting skills.

This makes the comedy a bit of a downer, which fortunately is partly compensated with a lot of adventurous images. There's always something going on in the universe of this movie, whether they're sailing on a whitewater river, being attacked by bears or walking into some sort of cult. You can't even think of it that it appears in this movie.

Ultimately, it is a smooth film that can only offer too little in the area of comedy. It also lacks some extras or memorable. Visually, I can't really pick a scene that left a strong impression. I think I like the poster even better than all the scenes in this movie, but the pace is fast and the events follow each other quickly, so it works as entertainment to some extent.

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