Surfer, Dude (2008)
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Reviews Counted:18
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Rotten:18
Average Rating:2.8/10
Synopsis: Matthew McConaughey stars in this film as Steve Addington, an A-list surfer who comes home to find Malibu has changed. Gone are the times when surfers lived just to catch a wave; now it's all about... [More]
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Willie Nelson, Alexie Gilmore
Director: S.R. Bindler
Reviews for Surfer, Dude
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 1.5/5 |
The problem that Surfer, Dude faces is that in its attempt to be a stoner comedy, it forgot to add the comedy elements. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
A celebration of unrealistic lifestyles, which makes it exactly the wrong film for our times. [Blu-ray] Full Review |
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The film looks more like a collection of home movies as opposed to a professional piece of cinema. Full Review |
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It felt like we were watching a rough cut. Full Review |
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D |
The number of artistically successful surfing movies can be counted on one hand, and the majority of those are documentaries. Full Review |
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D+ |
I wish the finished product was as amusing as the behind-the-scenes pot-fueled merriment I imagine took place during production. Full Review |
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[A] hapless, laughless movie. Full Review |
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2/5 |
The movie is about a surfer dude (sans comma), who is an analog dude trying to fit into a digital world, which is like trying to get a square peg into a Calabi-Yau Manifold, which is to say it probably won't work, and neither does this movie. Full Review |
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You can stick around for the only funny line, which involves a breakfast burrito, but the smart surfer would head for the hills and Willie's goat ranch. Full Review |
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2/4 |
Yes, this is a movie made by stoners for stoners. Full Review |
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2/4 |
Surfer, Dude is a bizarre throwback. It feels 25-30 years out of date and seems to be meant to be watched on VHS, oops, make that DVD, while stoned. Full Review |
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D |
Willie and ganja, yes, yes, the cliches abound. Full Review |
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There's something about the mystical-spiritual aura surrounding surfing that tends to turn most movies on the subject to hippie-dippie mush. Full Review |
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A shapeless slog with virtually no tale to chase. Full Review |
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F |
A total wipeout. Full Review |
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[A] lackluster vanity production. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
I couldn't think of a less appealing advert for the way of the surf. Full Review |
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...limp and rambling picture, which crawls across the screen for about 30 minutes longer than it has any need to. Full Review |
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