Both Kristopher and Oliver were terribly wasted in this movie. This was obviously something done just for the money for both of them, and there can't even have been that much money involved.
Their names were the only reason I watched this, and sadly, the movie was nowhere near as good as they were. This will ultimately be something they both try to bury on their resumes (which is saying something given Kristopher Turner was in David DeCocteau's The Brotherhood III). Oliver James will be tormented by images of him trying to pry a CGI squirrel off of his nose for the rest of his natural life.
Sadly, there were brief instances where the movie clicked, and where there were glimmers of potential. Then there'd be a jarring transition to something unbelievably awful again. With some writers whose talent matched that of the actors, there could have been a fun movie here. Replace Jerry Rice's character of "Hal Gore" and, well, the cue card-reading performance of Jerry Rice, with, say, Al Gore himself, and a big reveal could have served as one of the funniest parts of the movie rather than slam it to a halt. Tone down Nigel, add some character growth, some more city boys in the woods jokes, replace the climactic fight scene with a more clever confrontation and victory, remember that cell phones shouldn't work in the middle of the woods, and... heck, anyone here could devote ten minutes to the script and make it about three times better than what it was, sadly.
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