Strange Wilderness: Critic Reviews

Underachieving even by the standards of stoner comedies, Strange Wilderness is so inert that it doesn't so much unreel on screen as loiter there, giggling at its own outrageousness.

There are stupid stoner comedies and then there are stupid stoner comedies that ain't funny, and the latest effluvium from Adam Sandler's Happy Madison production company is mostly a bummer.

No snob to low-brow ridiculousness when it's actually unexpected, I'll admit to being amused exactly once.

Obviously the product of minimal effort by all parties involved, Strange Wilderness is a slovenly, slapped-together stoner comedy.

This movie is designed for an audience that likes gross-out humour and endless silliness.

Laughter is definitely an endangered species where Strange Wilderness is concerned.

Despite the presence of funny guys such as Zahn, Garlin, Justin Long and Jonah Hill, along with veteran character actors Ernest Borgnine, Joe Don Baker and Robert Patrick, the movie fails to be even passably funny.

Any resemblance to comedy is purely coincidental and unintentional. The only reason to chuckle is to prove you haven't died while watching it. Its credits should be handed to a mercenary. It's not a film. It's the Zeroes' worst pop-culture excretion.

It's just plain lazy (or incompetent or both) filmmaking from start to finish.

After watching Strange Wilderness, you may want to soak your feet in a tub of live piranhas, just for laughs. You'll find it a lot more fun than anything in this movie.

What can you say about a film when its most memorable scene is the one in which Steve Zahn's private parts get caught up in a turkey's throat?

I would say 20% of the jokes work and the rest fell flat!

Players like Hill, Long, and Zahn have natural comedic ability, but there's honestly not much they can do with such weak material.

A few cute gags aside, this is an exercise in stupidity aimed at those who find 15 different names for a bong to be funny.

Strange Wilderness is a never-ending bundle of self-consciously raunchy skits aimed at under-achieving slackers who are too high to notice how desperately pathetic it all is.

There's nothing in this lame, low budget stoner flick that even peeps above the parapet of the ordinary.

About as funny as watching a cute animal die a long slow death - and probably as painful.

A comedy wilderness.

Really not very funny. Unless you're a moronic frat boy who's been smoking a lot of wacky backy, in which case it's probably hilarious.

'Strange Wilderness' isn't funny enough to produce anything more than a few slight chuckles. We mostly groan and squirm in our seats while watching it.

...worthless garbage...

Maybe the screenwriters were chemically altered when they decided that this stoner comedy was funny.

The thing looks like it was shot over the course of six random (weed-filled) weekends, probably for fun at first, but then someone got the idea to release this glorified home movie into theaters. Bad idea.

Even though this raucous, low-low-lowbrow comedy hits theaters early in the year, I'm thinking the race for bottom-feeder of 2008 is, if not over, at least well under way.