I watched the Dukes of Hazzard growing up as a little kid and loved the show. When I heard they were remaking it, I was ambivalent when I saw the cast as they didn't fit my idea of what the Duke family should look like. Jessica Simpson especially was a bad casting mistake I thought.
Well, last night Kim and I were vegging and had taped the movie from earlier in the summer and decided to watch it. Let me tell you, Jessica Simpson was not the worst part of the movie. Yes, sadly its true.
In the old TV show Bo and Luke Duke may have been rednecks but they also had class, honour, and respect for other people along with the good-guy heart of gold. Sure they had fun dissing the law but they respected justice. In the movie, they cousins were classless, dishonourable, disrespectful towards women as well as the law, and caused property damage on a scale that speaks of hoodlums or criminals rather than boys having fun. I know it was done all in fun and laughs but it was "humour" aimed at the lowest common denominator. Shallow, crude, and infantile.
Additionally, the Dukes have always been protrayed as rural but not stupid on TV. In the movie, they were a few bricks short of an outhouse and I can't believe could pass the drivers test to get their licenses. Morons.
It was sad to watch an institution to seventies TV be mangled in the Hollywood of today.
On the upside, I loved Burt Reynolds take on Boss Hogg. That was cool.
1 comment:
I totally agree...I loved that tv show as a kid and this movie isn't fit to share the same name. The only thing that was the same was the car.
...stupid movie...there's 2 hours I'll never get back...at least we didn't pay to watch it!!!
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