It's trash, all right, but perfectly skewed trash -- a comedy that knows just how smart to be about just how dumb it is.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
Director Jay Chandrasekhar ... has found the perfect balance of old-fashioned charm and postmodern touches -- but not too many to overshadow the show's precious texture.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Mike Clark
It's for people who have always wanted to see Willie Nelson ("Uncle Jesse") lob Molotov cocktails on a freeway and smoke weed with Joe Don Baker, who plays Georgia's governor.Read Full Review »
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Slate: David Edelstein
A decent-enough rambunctious Southern-drive-in sort of time-waster, missing only the bare boobs that would make it the perfect socially irresponsible sexist entertainment for rednecks and uptight liberal elites who'd like to live the country-boy dream for a few hours. (Howdy, y'all!)Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
Manages to rocket along at full speed. At the same time, however, the movie feels as if it's not going anywhere at all.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Wesley Morris
A cheap, greasy time at the multiplex. You leave annoyed at having been hungry enough to have ever wanted it in the first place.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Dana Stevens
It would help if the movie were actually funny - or if it actually bothered to be a movie, rather than some car chases punctuated by shots of Ms. Simpson sashaying toward the camera (or more often, away from it).Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
The whole thing seems so perfectly good-natured that you settle in for some harmless, silly fun. But Dukes runs out of gas early on.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Peter L'Official
Dukes insults not "family values," as the original Cooter claims, just general intelligence. Yee. Haw.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
A lame-brained, outdated wheeze about a couple of good ol' boys who roar around the back roads of the South in the General Lee, their beloved 1969 Dodge Charger.Read Full Review »