Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling
Venturing into the woods causes nothing but trouble and hilarity for three misguided males in this straight to video spin-off of 2004's "Without A Paddle".
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- Cast:
- Oliver James , Kristopher Turner , Rik Young , Madison Riley , Amber McDonald , Jerry Rice , Madison Bontempo
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Absolutely brilliant
A Masterpiece!
The acting in this movie is really good.
Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
With out a paddle natures calling was a terrible movie i disliked it very much. it took the old movie which was awesome and made a complete knock off of it. it had the same story with a few quarks to it. the director Ellory Elkayem took and ruined the first (directed by Steven Brill) now if they had the original cast it would have been a great sequel. or if Steven Brill was directing it at least. but why take a great movie and completely destroy its title! i thought the movie was bad. if there was a zero rating for this movie i would have gave it that! alls i would want is the original cast i don't even think they tried to get them in the project. therefore without a paddle natures calling was bad!
I'll be the first to admit, I'm VERY tolerant when it comes to movies. I will watch almost anything at least once. This movie was no exception, and after the first movie (which I have to admit I liked) I figured there was no harm in watching this one.I almost never say this... but, I wish I'd turned the channel. Seriously, that is saying a LOT for me. I willingly sit through movies that most people cannot stand. I knew from the start that this was not actually a sequel to the second as far as characters and events; but rather of concept and idea. I have no problem with that. My problem is, the things that made the first movie endearing to me (a halfway decent script, fairly likable characters, and a nice good feeling at the end) were completely missing from this one. Add in goofy CGI squirrels (such things have a proper time and place people, come on!) and it was bordering on unwatchable.I will say, you just cannot blame this on the actors, because that part wasn't bad - the material they had to work WITH was the problem. This movie started off on the wrong foot with a shaky script. And the actors are really the only reason I've rated this even as high as I have.
I have to admit, I did not like the original Without a Paddle movie. I watched it with my brother and our friends, and I just wasn't impressed. I'm not a Seth Green fan, really. Anyway - I saw the commercial for this, and I just had to watch it. I absolutely adore Kristopher Turner and Oliver James, and seeing them together? Sounded great! I laughed a lot, it was good to see Oliver away from chick flicks and Kristopher away from Instant Star. If you're expecting a remake or something building upon the original, you're going to be disappointed, but if you go into this looking for a laugh, you're going to get it. It's not going to be named movie of the year, but it's certainly not a waste of time or money.
When I heard a a sequel had been made to "Without a Paddle," I was kind of excited. Dax, Matt Lillard & Seth Green were pretty fun in the first movie, so I expected a decent flick. With a cast of relative no names, this movie seems to be a more straight to DVD type of movie. The biggest name had to be Hall of fame football player Jerry Rice, playing crazy woodsman "Hal Gore." Two lifelong friends (a laid back nurse and a stressed lawyer) and a Limey-Brit must take raft down river, in search of a beautiful hippie girl, who lives deep in the Oregon woods. Adventures unfold with white rapids, crazy squirrels and angry mobsters making things tough on the guys.All in all, the movie is pretty entertaining throughout. Very simple and kind of silly plot, with a fair amount of laughs. This is a movie that kids will enjoy a lot more than adults and overall I found the first movie in this series to be better than this one.