Yes, I saw the movie for the first time yesterday. Vero had another one of those "I'm doing something after work so I'll be home late" where, taking advantage of it, I rent a movie she doesn't want to see.
There was nothing else in the store that I hadn't seen...
I got the unrated version of The Dukes of Hazzard (at the time of this writing, this site SUCKS).
From what I can tell, "unrated" means they added three or four scenes with half-naked women. Like when Bo and Luke go to find Katie at the Atlanta university, they look for her by barging into three bedrooms, each of which containing a number of good looking young women wearing nothing but bikini bottoms and doing, what I can only guess to be, normal sorority girl stuff -- like playfully boxing with each other.
That left me sitting there, stunned, thinking: "WTF?!?"
So one of two things: either I completely missed what university is like (and I really should go), or they decided that the target audience for this movie is 14 year old boys. Which, as I realized yesterday, I no longer am.
For long portions of the movie I really wondered if I really was the target audience -- I mean, I'm a guy who likes movies with pretty girls and fast cars, but last I checked I had more than two brain cells that aren't driven entirely by hormones.
The best part of the movie, therefore, ended up being the stunt driving. They got the reining drifting champion to drive the car around, and it shows through a lot of really good looking slides. "Drifting", if you don't know, is this thing whereby a driver enters a turn by sliding the back of the car and goes through that turn with the car at an angle, the back wheels sliding the whole time. And this guy can really do it: in one of the special feature you can see him drive the car TWICE around this circle, through traffic no less, in a slide the entire time. Quite impressive.
Like the director said in an interview in the special features, the movie is mostly about the car. The car isn't that great, but the driving is pretty cool and the drifting is very, very well done.
And the girls? They do have a lot of pretty young things in the movie, but after the couple of scenes you quickly realize they have no actual personality (other than to arouse 14 year old boys) and it's pretty much a turn-off. And Jessica Simpson shows that, no matter how much practice you have, it is basically impossible to move without wobbling in six inch heels.
So it was a night of stunned consternation and nice slides. But not a movie I recommend... if you're not a 14 year old boy.
