DVD Review

user submitted pictureWe thought we were up sh*t creek for the evening’s entertainment when our couch potato partner rented Without A Paddle because three dudes looking for lost treasure sounds just so dumb. But it stars J-man Seth Green, whom we adore for his self-effacing brilliance, as well as Matthew Lillard, who can be creepy (Scream) but funny in an attention deficit disordered kind of way (Scooby Doo.) Then there’s the smart guy from MTV’s Punk’d, Dax Shepard, who could make a paper bag explode into guffaws, even without a lighter. So these guys plus good dialogue, some rockin’ action/adventure scenes, a killer soundtrack and a cameo by Burt Reynolds as a grizzled mountaineer (“You got a purty mouth, boy”) beats out any comedy we’ve seen since the Hebrew Hammer. Even the meathead redneck villains go above and beyond stereotype

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