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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES EAN: 0097363518846 Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Item Dimensions: Label: Paramount Languages: Manufacturer: Paramount MPN: 351884 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Paramount Region Code: 1 Release Date: May 20, 2008 Running Time: 84 minutes Studio: Paramount Theatrical Release Date: February 01, 2008 Editorial Review: Product Description: Animal enthusiast Peter Gaulke (Steve Zahn) and his sidekick Fred Wolf (Allen Covert) host an ailing wildlife TV show Strange Wilderness which is in a steep ratings decline. Desperate to save the show Peter hatches a Hail Mary scheme to find the one animal that could truly turn the show around and change the nature-show landscape forever Bigfoot.System Requirements:Running Time: 87 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY/BUDDY FILMS Rating: R UPC: 097363518846 Manufacturer No: 351884 Amazon.com: As lunkhead comedies go, Strange Wilderness never creates the necessary frisson to keep a viewer engaged by the film's endless parade of marijuana jokes, gross-out sight gags, and celebrations of rank stupidity. Which is too bad, because the cast would be ideal for a smarter version of a stupid movie, but they come off as largely wasted here. Steve Zahn (That Thing You Do) plays Peter Gaulke, heir to a wild animal television program called "Strange Wilderness," but too out of it to keep up his late father's congenial yet focused legacy. With the show's ratings plummeting (even at a 3 a.m. broadcast time), Peter attempts to rescue the series by traveling to Ecuador in search of Bigfoot. Accompanied by a crew of idiots (Allen Covert, Jonah Hill, Justin Long) and one comely lass (Ashley Scott of TV's Jericho), Peter heads into one obstacle after another: sharks, piranha, pygmies, Mexican border guards, a crazy tracker (Robert Patrick), and a nitrous high. After awhile, the lowbrow hijinks all run together and one feels a bit trapped, desperately awaiting final credits. But there are a couple of recurring comic ideas that salvage the movie somewhat, especially the use of stock footage of animals accompanied by Peter's absurd voiceovers. ("The shark can be found only in two places: the northern and southern hemispheres.") --Tom Keogh Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A movie that's short length makes it better.I have my theory on movies. Most of the time, if a film is under 90 minutes. It is going to lack quality. Now don't get me wrong. This is not true 100 percent of the time. But 9 our of 10 times it is for me. So even though I saw that the time was only 84 minutes I still decided to buy it. I paid like 20 dollars for this and I feel that I got ripped off. 20 dollars for a good movie that is about and hour and 40 minutes is a lot. But for a movie that after the previews is about 82 minutes ... Read More Rating: - inspired silliness***1/2 "Strange Wilderness" is a good-natured, frequently hilarious takeoff on all those nature documentaries that play on the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet, and whose pedigree stretches all the way back to the granddaddy of them all, "Mutual of Omaha`s Wild Kingdom." Peter and Fred are the producers of a wildlife series entitled "Strange Wilderness" that has been foundering in the ratings ever since Peter's father, a Steve Irwin-type naturist and the original host of the show, ... Read More Rating:  - StupidPretty much a bunch of potheads trying to find bigfoot. They try to insert some funny one-liners, but they aren't funny. I hoped that it was going to be a good movie, but it wasn't. Rating: - Pretty funny if you are in the mood!This certainly does not rank very high among Happy Madison's productions, but if you are game for raunchy, irreverent and mostly downright juvenile humor, you will probably enjoy this movie. The cast (Steve Zahn, Jonah Hill, Allen Covert, Peter Dante and other Happy Madison/Broken Lizard regulars) have the comedic chops to make any poorly-written scene funny, but there was obviously a lack of well thought-out material available, and this film plays like a series of thrown-together SNL ... Read More Rating: - bad reviews are not surprising, but I'm not sure the movie was aiming very high anywayI had no hope for this film. The trailer had a couple of goofy moments and simply promised a great cast, but considering it came and went in the theater, I didn't expect much. Still, as far as dumb comedies goes, this could be worse. There are a couple of great moments (the best moment: the turkey gag -- oh, that's a pun; the rival wilderness film teams' death scene) worth the price of rental. I'm not sure about some of the other stupid jokes (a guy just named "dick" whom the cast then makes a bunch ... Read More |
