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Strange Wilderness (2008)

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Reviews Counted:41

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Rotten:41

Average Rating:2.3/10

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

Runtime: 3 hrs 7 mins

Genre: Comedies

US Box Office: $6,515,869

Synopsis: Steve Zahn 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... Steve Zahn 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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What can you say about a film when its most memorable scene is the one in which Steve Zahn's private parts get caught up in a turkey's throat?

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
02/06/09
Louise Keller
Louise Keller
Urban Cinefile
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It's just plain lazy (or incompetent or both) filmmaking from start to finish.

Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment Comment
04/27/09
Brian Webster
Brian Webster
Apollo Guide

After watching Strange Wilderness, you may want to soak your feet in a tub of live piranhas, just for laughs. You'll find it a lot more fun than anything in this movie.

Full Review Source: DVDTown.com | comment Comment
04/11/09
John J. Puccio
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com

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
Austin Kennedy
Sin Magazine

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 2 Comments
06/14/08
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

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
Ryan Cracknell
Movie Views

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
Daniel Etherington
Channel 4 Film

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
Ken McIntyre
Total Film

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
Paul Arendt
BBC

A comedy wilderness.

Full Review Source: Sky Movies | comment Comment
04/11/08
Tim Evans
Tim Evans
Sky Movies

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
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
Frank Wilkins
ReelTalk Movie Reviews

...worthless garbage...

Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment 3 Comments
02/18/08
Jim Lane
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review

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
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

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
Larry Ratliff
San Antonio Express-News

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
Scott Weinberg
Cinematical

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
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy

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 2 Comments
02/05/08
Aaron Hillis
Aaron Hillis
Village Voice

Unfunny "comedy" is crude, profane, drug-filled.

Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | comment Comment
02/05/08
S. Jhoanna Robledo
S. Jhoanna Robledo
Common Sense Media

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
Frank Lovece
Film Journal International
 
 
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