Strange Wilderness
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: February 1, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
12
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
1
Negative:
11
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
42
The A.V. ClubSteven Hyden
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. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleKimberley Jones
This one has the feel of being penned on rolling papers, with room to spare. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderReece Pendleton
Aside from the waste of a talented cast, the only thing that really caught my attention was the tomblike silence of the audience--at least until the bong jokes started. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeTy Burr
By far the funniest part of Strange Wilderness is the trailer for "Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay" that's running before it. Read full review
20
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
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. Read full review
20
The New York TimesMatt Zoller Seitz
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. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesKevin Crust
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. Read full review
10
VarietyJoe Leydon
Obviously the product of minimal effort by all parties involved, Strange Wilderness is a slovenly, slapped-together stoner comedy. Read full review
10
L.A. WeeklyAaron Hillis
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. Read full review
0
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
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. Read full review
0
Film ThreatMatthew Sorrento
It's a movie that manages to grow more idiotic by the scene. Read full review
0
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jason McBride
The vibe isn't mellow, nor predictably, affably dumb. Rather, this is a slapdash effort whose faux-Farrelly brothers humour is papered over with an unremitting, distasteful malice, featuring a cast that's completely wasted, in both senses of the word. Read full review
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