Strange Wilderness

R 5.2
2008 1 hr 28 min Comedy

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

  • Cast:
    Steve Zahn , Allen Covert , Jonah Hill , Kevin Heffernan , Ashley Scott , Jeff Garlin , Robert Patrick

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Reviews

Artivels
2008/02/01

Undescribable Perfection

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Unlimitedia
2008/02/02

Sick Product of a Sick System

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Comwayon
2008/02/03

A Disappointing Continuation

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Juana
2008/02/04

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

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thesar-2
2008/02/05

I don't want to start off on a negative note – oh, that so wouldn't be like me – so let me tell you of the positive that came out of Strange Wilderness: The few – and FAR between – stock footage scenes with (mostly) Peter's (Zahn) commentary were a tad bit funny. (I'm a stats guy, so let's say that took up 2.05% of the film.)Whew, that was hard. It's almost like I had a legal commitment to say something nice, or knew one of the producers who I owed a favor to…because I can't get rid of the bad taste this retched film left.Pineapple Express, it wanted to be. Comedy, it yearned to be labeled as. Disaster amongst all terrible films it ended up as. This horribly edited and thoughtless romp barely had a good idea to begin with and was made by the same people who used the same drugs that were found in the movie.Seriously. There can be no other explanation on how the film got funding, or how the "stars" actually agreed to almost put a stop to their careers, or how they thought any of this was funny, even on paper. Oh! I thought of another positive: this made me second-guess the other movies I rated low. Perhaps, I was just too harsh on them.Five second synopsis: Animal show host dies…son continues broadcasting show into ground…IDEA: film Bigfoot & get back on top. Fini.I think it took them less time for the rest of the screenplay and a little bit more on planning on where the characters would fall next. They couldn't have spend any time on the jokes, because even the decent ones – or, let me rephrase, the models of something similar to humor – abruptly ended before the punch line, whether by bad editing, bad execution or both. Don't even get me started on the endless, mindless and scattered subplots that went nowhere or what happened to Bigfoot or why.My friends criticize my critiques of Adam Sandler and his films. This is just by his production company, but it should drive my point home. Please, someone let me know how this didn't shut down his production company, Happy Madison, or his career. All I could add to my disdain for Sandler would be: "Your Honor, I have no further evidence or witnesses. The defense rests."

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Charles Barnard
2008/02/06

pro: I watched the entire thing.Bit w/ eyelid-eyes was great--should have used it all the way.con: I watched the whole thing hoping for another good bit.It never came.Bad timing! Stretched out.Dull. (repeated shark bit far too many times.) It's not a coherent whole, but a bunch of (not to funny) skits.Timing is key, and the timing is badly off.Even stoned it's not funny.Amazed they got money to make it.My first instinct at the end of the film was to look-up the producers to see who was nuts enough to back this lame concept poorly executed.

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kbingram
2008/02/07

My wife and I were absolutely in hysterics watching this film. It made our eyes water and really cheered us up, much along the lines of Tropic Thunder. It's very rare I laugh like that, so in my book it must have been funny. If you put your critical brains away and just watch, then you won't be disappointed.Some great one-liners such as when a shark gets their man dressed up as a sea lion you here someone shout ''let him go'' Ha Ha. or the Turkey scene or the gas induced party, ''the puffer fish inflates itself by sucking in its .....s'' Phew I'm aching just thinking about them and there's lots more gags to be had.

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Floated2
2008/02/08

Strange wilderness is one of the worst movies I have witnessed to watch. The acting is awful, the direction is way off and the jokes went flat and were completely unfunny. Seeing the comedic talent from the cast, I was expecting something funny, along the lines of Superbad (though not as funny or good), accepted and somewhat grandma's boy. But this was by far worst then all of those films. The plot in this film is ridiculous. It's basically about a guy- Peter (Steve Zahn) trying to keep his father's dream of a televised animal program afloat, which has plummeted in the ratings. Peter come across a map to the home of Bigfoot. Seizing this opportunity, Peter and his crew (Allen Covert, Ashley Scott, Justin Long, Jonah Hill, Kevin Heffernan, Peter Dante) race to the wilds of South America to find Bigfoot, filming their substantial misadventures along the way. I didn't laugh at really anything, maybe a few of the voice overs from the video show (the shark one at the end was actually kinda funny), but apart from that everything else was just annoying, gross, disturbing and awful.

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