Strange Wilderness

    Strange Wilderness
    2008

    Synopsis

    With the ratings dropping for a wilderness-themed TV show, two animal fans go to the Andes in search of Bigfoot.

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    Cast

    • Steve ZahnPeter
    • Allen CovertFred
    • Jonah HillCooker
    • Kevin HeffernanWhitaker
    • Ashley ScottCheryl
    • Jeff GarlinEd Lawson
    • Robert PatrickGus Hayden
    • Blake ClarkDick
    • Oliver HudsonTJ
    • Jake AbelConservationist

    Recommendations

    • 42

      The A.V. Club

      Strange Wilderness has three bad comic ideas for every good joke, and it botches many of those, too, thanks to slack comic timing and a nonexistent grasp of storytelling basics. But just when the flop-sweat stench is about to become unbearable, Strange Wilderness stumbles upon an uproarious, laugh-out moment, and suddenly it's tolerable again for another few minutes.
    • 25

      Boston Globe

      By far the funniest part of Strange Wilderness is the trailer for "Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay" that's running before it.
    • 20

      The Hollywood Reporter

      The result is a slacker comedy that goes slacker by the second, trying hard to be rude and crude but suggesting an old John Candy-Dan Aykroyd movie with bongs and more swearing.
    • 20

      The New York Times

      What rankles isn’t the gross-out humor or the verbal non sequiturs, which are expected, even welcome, in this sort of movie. It’s the smug sense of entitlement -- that of intoxicated dweebs tittering endlessly and obnoxiously at their own supposed cleverness. “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle” is the gold standard in this genre. Strange Wilderness is a counterfeit bill.
    • 20

      Los Angeles Times

      Despite the presence of funny guys such as Zahn, Garlin, Justin Long and Jonah Hill, along with veteran character actors Ernest Borgnine, Joe Don Baker and Robert Patrick, the movie fails to be even passably funny.
    • 10

      Variety

      Obviously the product of minimal effort by all parties involved, Strange Wilderness is a slovenly, slapped-together stoner comedy.
    • 10

      L.A. Weekly

      No snob to low-brow ridiculousness when it’s actually unexpected, I’ll admit to being amused exactly once, when Zahn gets deep-throated by a gigantic prop turkey who, despite the mouthful, keeps on flapping.
    • 0

      TV Guide Magazine

      You'd have to be more than merely intoxicated to find anything about this dismal stoner comedy remotely funny. You'd have to be unconscious.

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