Critics Scoreboard
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Average Critic Score:
33
(36 sources)
33
(36 sources)
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83
Entertainment Weekly
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 » -
80
Washington Post
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 » -
75
New York Post
A lot of its jokes sputter and it doesn't contain even a hint of a chick movie, but The Dukes of Hazzard has some of the same fratty energy as "Wedding Crashers." Read Full Review » -
63
USA Today
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 » -
60
Chicago Reader
As soon as it became clear that this remake has nothing to do with real Georgia moonshiners and everything to do with car chases, smashups, and explosions, I could sit back and enjoy it as good, stupid fun. Read Full Review » -
60
Slate
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 » -
60
Variety
Loud, silly but kind of lame-brained fun with car chases aplenty, "Dukes" faithfully plays like an extended episode of the series, albeit with an additional gallon or so of fuel-injected raunchiness. Read Full Review » -
58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The bright spot is Seann William Scott ("Dude, Where's My Car?") as Bo Duke. His good-naturedly maniacal manner and early Dennis Quaid killer smile are endearing, to the point where he occasionally threatens to elevate the movie into something special. Read Full Review » -
50
Premiere
Skillfully manage to adapt some key details of the show -- namely, the high-flying car chases and hillbilly narration. Read Full Review » -
50
The Onion (A.V. Club)
It's got a few laughs and some impressive car chases, but mostly, it's just a puzzling jumble of gags and exhaust fumes. Read Full Review » -
50
Philadelphia Inquirer
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 » -
50
Boston Globe
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 » -
50
Portland Oregonian
Director Jay Chandrasekhar ("Super Troopers") will never be mistaken for an artist. But he's competent with crude humor and manages to balance affectionate parody and rote imitation. Read Full Review » -
40
Salon.com
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 » -
40
TV Guide
So outrageously, unregenerately stupid that you might be tempted to think it's smart. But it's not: It's as dumb as Georgia dirt. Read Full Review » -
40
The New York Times
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 » -
40
The Hollywood Reporter
A bigger-louder-dumber take on that good ol' CBS hillbilly hit, the movie version of "The Dukes of Hazzard" starts off on the wrong foot and keeps heading, appropriately, south. Read Full Review » -
40
Empire
Certainly not the worst of the endless stream of TV remakes, but given the unassuming, easy charm of the original, still wide of the mark by a country mile. Read Full Review » -
38
Charlotte Observer
There's nothing wrong with Simpson's performance that a head transplant wouldn't cure, and the grinning Reynolds looks Botoxed into immobility. Read Full Review » -
38
New York Daily News
Though its PG-13 rating allows for much cruder sex humor, the movie version of "Dukes" is nearly identical to the TV series in its corniness, in its incessant car chases and in its ogling of the posterior of cousin Daisy Duke. Read Full Review » -
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
In lieu of a movie, we get a series of car chases rudely interrupted by the occasional smattering of dialogue. Read Full Review » -
30
Wall Street Journal
YEEEEE HAAAAW! They've gone and done it. The feature version of The Dukes Of Hazzard turns a sow's ear into a bigger sow's ear. Read Full Review » -
30
Film Threat
Just make sure you exit the theater before Simpson's god-awful version of "These Boots Are Made for Walking" starts playing during the end credits, or you may find yourself taking the straw from your drink and puncturing your own eardrums in self defense. Read Full Review » -
30
Austin Chronicle
How can a movie narrated by Junior Brown and backed with wall-to-wall southern rock - a movie that at one point features co-stars Nelson and Carter tied together, surely a first in celluloid history - be so uneventful? Why, it's lazier than Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane's good-for-nothing hound dog, Flash. Read Full Review » -
30
Village Voice
Dukes insults not "family values," as the original Cooter claims, just general intelligence. Yee. Haw. Read Full Review » -
30
LA Weekly
Director Jay Chandrasekhar (Super Troopers, Club Dread) does a fine job with the car jumps. Just try to wake up whenever you hear "Yee-haw." Read Full Review » -
25
Chicago Sun-Times
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 » -
25
Miami Herald
The less said about Simpson's performance the better. From the neck down she fulfills all the requirements, but, honestly, I think General Lee might do a better job with the dialogue. Read Full Review » -
25
Baltimore Sun
The Dukes of Hazzard may mark some sort of nadir when it comes to movies made from TV shows. It's an overlong, under-thought and numbingly one-dimensional extrapolation of a TV show whose pleasures were, at best, marginal. See it at your own peril. Read Full Review » -
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Los Angeles Times
With no plot, character or dialogue worth experiencing, let alone remembering, the film merely occupies space on the screen and hopes for the best. Read Full Review » -
12
Chicago Tribune
Commenting on performances here is like critiquing the production design of a porno--it's beside the point. Briefly: Knoxville, bad choice, man. Reynolds, you make a good villain. Simpson, lovely posing. Scott, you're from Minnesota and it shows--but I bet stunt driving school was fun. Read Full Review » -
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10
Dallas Observer
The movie's so unfunny, it almost appears to be that way on purpose, kind of like an Ingmar Bergman film. Read Full Review » -
0
San Francisco Chronicle
In stiff competition for the lamest thing ever put on celluloid. Read Full Review » -
0
Rolling Stone
There is no wrong time to flush this turd. The only bright spot comes during the outtakes over the final credits. Read Full Review »
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