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Strange Wilderness (2008)

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Reviews Counted: 38

Fresh: 0

Rotten:38

Average Rating: 2.3/10

Consensus: Strange Wilderness is a laugh-free comedy that's both aimless and overly crass.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for non-stop language, drug use, crude and sexual humor.

Runtime: 3 hrs 7 mins

Genre: Television

Theatrical Release: Feb 1, 2008 Wide

Box Office: $6,515,869

Synopsis: From the production team that brought you HAPPY GILMORE and BILLY MADISON comes this amiable, foul-mouthed "nature" comedy. Steve Zahn--sporting his best burned-out surfer dude drawl--leads a ragtag crew of wasted nature... From the production team that brought you HAPPY GILMORE and BILLY MADISON comes this amiable, foul-mouthed "nature" comedy. Steve Zahn--sporting his best burned-out surfer dude drawl--leads a ragtag crew of wasted nature documentarians deep into the Ecuadorian forest on a quest for the legendary Bigfoot. Constantly being rousted for their drunken ineptitude and ill-informed voiceover narrations, the boys need a break to boost their ratings and Bigfoot might be it; all they have to do is remember to load the camera and not get eaten (especially by a certain turkey). Allen Covert, SUPERBAD's Jonah Hill, Justin Long, and Kevin Heffernan are the crew. Harry Hamlin is a rival bigfoot tracker. Ashley Scott (INTO THE BLUE) provides the ubiquitous foxy babe interest. Ernest Borgnine, Robert Patrick, and Joe Don Baker show up in bit parts. A sort of low-rent LIFE AQUATIC, WILDERNESS is such a fall-down farce that viewers might forget they're not cracking jokes while watching ANIMAL PLANET with their cronies instead of seeing a real movie, but maybe that's a good thing. Former SNL scribe Fred Wolf (JOE DIRT) directs, keeping it as ramshackle and rough around the edges as the law will allow. STRANGE WILDERNESS may not be pretty, but it earns a load of laughs through its sheer mullet-headed recklessness. [More]

Starring: Steve Zahn, Allen Covert, Jonah Hill, Kevin Heffernan

Starring: Steve Zahn, Allen Covert, Jonah Hill, Kevin Heffernan, Ashley Scott, Peter Dante, Harry Hamlin, Robert Patrick, Joe Don Baker, Justin Long, Jeff Garlin, Ernest Borgnine

Director: Fred Wolf

Director: Fred Wolf
Screenwriter: Peter Gaulke, Fred Wolf
Producer: Peter Gaulke
Composer: Waddy Wachtel
Studio: Paramount Pictures

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Release:

May 27, 2008

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DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Anamorphic Widescreen

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English, French, Spanish
  • Subtitles - English, French, Spanish - Optional

Additional Release Material:

  • Additional Footage - 1. Four Things
  • 2. Pete Yells at Debbie
  • 3. Judy
  • 4. Lawson
  • 5. Pet Perv
  • 6. Interviews
  • 7. Not Fans
  • 8. Cooker Song: America
  • 9. Dentist
  • 10. Immigration
  • 11. Tattooed Boobs
  • 12. Pier
  • 13. Beaver/ Moose
  • Featurettes - 1. COOKER'S SONG
  • 2. THE TURKEY
  • 3. WHAT DO WE DO?
  • 4. REEL COMEDY: STRANGE WILDERNESS

Reviews for Strange Wilderness

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I would say 20% of the jokes work and the rest fell flat!

Full Review Source: Sin Magazine | comment Comment
07/22/08
Austin Kennedy
Sin Magazine
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Players like Hill, Long, and Zahn have natural comedic ability, but there's honestly not much they can do with such weak material.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment 1 Comment
06/14/08
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com
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After watching Strange Wilderness, you may want to soak your feet in a tub of live piranhas, just for a few laughs.

Full Review Source: DVDTown.com | comment Comment
05/17/08
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com
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A few cute gags aside, this is an exercise in stupidity aimed at those who find 15 different names for a bong to be funny.

Full Review Source: Movie Views | comment Comment
05/10/08
Ryan Cracknell
Movie Views
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Really not very funny. Unless you're a moronic frat boy who's been smoking a lot of wacky backy, in which case it's probably hilarious.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
04/11/08
Daniel Etherington
Channel 4 Film
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Strange Wilderness is a never-ending bundle of self-consciously raunchy skits aimed at under-achieving slackers who are too high to notice how desperately pathetic it all is.

Full Review Source: Total Film | comment Comment
04/11/08
Ken McIntyre
Total Film
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There's nothing in this lame, low budget stoner flick that even peeps above the parapet of the ordinary.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
04/11/08
Paul Arendt
BBC
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A comedy wilderness.

Full Review Source: Sky Movies | comment Comment
04/11/08
Tim Evans
Sky Movies
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About as funny as watching a cute animal die a long slow death - and probably as painful.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
04/11/08
Glen Ferris
Empire Magazine
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'Strange Wilderness' isn't funny enough to produce anything more than a few slight chuckles. We mostly groan and squirm in our seats while watching it.

Full Review Source: ReelTalk Movie Reviews | comment Comment
03/16/08
Frank Wilkins
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
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...worthless garbage...

Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment 1 Comment
02/18/08
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review
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Maybe the screenwriters were chemically altered when they decided that this stoner comedy was funny.

Full Review Source: Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) | comment Comment
02/09/08
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
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Even though this raucous, low-low-lowbrow comedy hits theaters early in the year, I'm thinking the race for bottom-feeder of 2008 is, if not over, at least well under way.

Full Review Source: San Antonio Express-News | comment Comment
02/08/08
Larry Ratliff
San Antonio Express-News
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The thing looks like it was shot over the course of six random (weed-filled) weekends, probably for fun at first, but then someone got the idea to release this glorified home movie into theaters. Bad idea.

Full Review Source: Cinematical | comment Comment
02/08/08
Scott Weinberg
Cinematical
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Slinks its way in and out of theaters without leaving any trace of its passage besides a distinct tang in the air of flop sweat and sorrow.

Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | comment Comment
02/07/08
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy
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No snob to low-brow ridiculousness when it's actually unexpected, I'll admit to being amused exactly once.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment 1 Comment
02/05/08
Aaron Hillis
Village Voice
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This farcical comedy is a Morlock of a movie--an ugly, subhuman dirt-dweller.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
02/05/08
Frank Lovece
Film Journal International
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The cinematography and sound work are mediocre, but still far better than the material deserves: you can still see and hear what's happening on the screen.

Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion | comment Comment
02/05/08
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion
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At least Gaulke and Wolf didn't have to go far to kill their reputation: During the jungle piranha attack scene, a mallard floats by in the background.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
02/05/08
Amy Nicholson
Boxoffice Magazine
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This movie is designed for an audience that likes gross-out humour and endless silliness.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
02/04/08
Philip Marchand
Toronto Star
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