Didn't Hate the Show, But the Movie SUCKED!
This movie was terrible. It was obviously just a quick money grab.
shareAs an outsider I haven't had the chance to watch the Red Green show. I read that PBS used to broadcast it. Dunno if the show is still on air or if it has been canceled already. I'd like to watch the show since I've heard only good comments about it.
Cheerios.
I love the show but not the movie because it was really divergent from the show and had several major flaws. Aside from the characters & heavy use of duct tape it wasn't really in accordance with the show. The movie's plot could easily have been done with different actors, characters, and no affiliation with the show. It's really just about a group of guys trying to raise a lot of money to fend off an evil real estate developer's plan to take their land.
A few major things stuck out at me:
1) The tired themes of the rich/greedy land developer as the lodge's nemeses and the corrupt & dim-witted sheriff. I don't know the Dukes of Hazzard was the first to combine these themes but that show milk them for all they were worth and this movie did it too.
2) Harold's sudden infatuation with Dalton's unseen-until-now-and-never-again daughter. Came out of left field as a time-filler.
3) Red, Harold, & Dalton are supposedly making this long journey, even staying overnight somewhere along the way, but it looks like nothing for the rest of the lodge members to catch up. Dalton gets a ride back to the lodge from the motel on a bicycle so they couldn't have been far away.
4) The physical depiction of the lodge itself. I realize that exterior shots of a building show rarely line up with the set and the house or whatever used for exterior shot it usually one the production crew finds that they think fits the bill. The still shot of the lodge between scenes on the show is probably just some cabin in Canada. Possum Lodge is supposedly very close to Possum Lake, if not adjacent to it, with cabin somewhere close that, at least in early season, members could stay in. It should have a fair amount of land around it for hunting, junk, and the members' shenanigans. In the show it's depicted as quite spacious with big main room where Red & Harold address the audience, a full basement, Red has an office somewhere, earlier seasons had another large room where various members would hang out. In the movie it looks kind of small and perched on a wooded hill with not much else. Again, the production crew probably just found or built something that they thought would suffice but a large rustic-looking country home, cabin, actual lodge, or summer camp would have been better.
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