I love the Television show, and I couldn't watch the movie until I bought it on-line. I saw the movie and thought that it was okay, but definitely not as funny as the movie. Then I saw the featurette "Red Green goes Hollywood" and that special alone was worth the price of the movie. Wondered what everybody else thinks.
shareI love the TV show too and one night I was watching my local PBS station and they were having a telethon from Possum Lodge and that's when I found out about the movie. During the telethon they showed the Red Green Goes Hollywood to promote the movie and I was excited as well that it was on the DVD.
However, I loved the movie. I thought that it was cool cause it is family friendly, but it also has the great Red Green humor that we all love, like saying "That car was a threat to planned parenthood" and "You could really peel rubber in that car, and not the tires". Good stuff.
I had to order it on-line as well, and I've had no regrets since. Classic flick!
I haven't seen it yet and I'm considering renting it today if it's available at my local video store. I think it looks good and I'm sure I'll atleast enjoy it a lot. (Maybe not love it but we'll see!)
shareI thought this movie just plain old sucked. It was no where near what the TV show offered and I had hoped Steve Smith would have gone all out for a movie. Quite the opposite. More than disappointed. So much so I had to shut it off a little more than half way in.
Wish I had more hands, Give it 4 thumbs down.
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I agree with the headline (all these years later). I finally saw it. The show is a scream and I can't get enough of it. The movie was weaker than the show. It reminded me of a 1960's comedy feature akin to something Don Knotts would have done or more likely along the lines of Disney films like "Computer That Wore Tennis Shoes" or "The Million Dollar Goose." I really didn't laugh as much as I do for the TV show.
I think it was the fact that it had a movie aura to it with incidental music and all. What makes the show so special is that it is a collection of short skits intertwined with a kind of over arching theme. This was all over-arching theme and missed the freshness of the TV show.
Deputy Dawn was a babe though.
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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