Synopsis
Three friends, whose lives have been drifting apart, reunite for the funeral of a fourth childhood friend. When looking through their childhood belongings, they discover a trunk which contained details on a quest their friend was attempting. It revealed that he was hot on the trail of the $200,000 that went missing with airplane hijacker D.B. Cooper in 1971. They decide to continue his journey, but do not understand the dangers they will soon encounter.
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Cast
- Seth GreenDan Mott
- Matthew LillardJerry Conlaine
- Dax ShepardTom Marshall
- Ethan SupleeElwood
- Abraham BenrubiDennis
- Antony StarrBilly Newwood
- Burt ReynoldsDel Knox
- Christina MooreButterfly
- Rachel BlanchardFlower
- Bonnie SomervilleDenise
Recommendations
- 50
Variety
An unstable -- if mostly painless -- mix of low comedy, stabs at higher silliness, and schmaltz. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
While the likable Seth Green, Matthew Lillard and Dax Shepard are definitely up to the comic excursion, the picture charts an uncertain course between wild and mild, eventually running aground in a pile of male-bonding muck. - 40
L.A. Weekly
Burt Reynolds, whose near-vaudevillian comic timing, is refreshing but not enough to carry the picture. - 40
Los Angeles Times
Despite some agreeably idiotic moments, Without a Paddle is also mostly without a rudder. Its few memorable highlights end up floating haplessly in a genial but uninspired and watery plot. - 38
Chicago Tribune
Led by a trio of dumb, dumber and dumbest, Without a Paddle is a testosterone comedy that might just as well be titled "Without a Brain Cell." - 38
Philadelphia Inquirer
This so-called comedy is a frayed string of anxious jokes about whether male bonding is manly or sissy. - 30
The A.V. Club
Buddy comedies rely heavily on their leads' chemistry, and in this regard, Without A Paddle fails. - 30
Dallas Observer
Every situation, every bit of dialogue, comes straight out of the Big Book of Movie Clichés.
