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Python Hyena Strange Wilderness (2008): Dir: Fred Wolf / Cast: Steve Zahn, Alan Covert, Ashley Scott, Kevin Hefferman, Jonah Hill: A pitiful comedy about man's relationship with nature. Too bad the screenwriter didn't get it on quite as well with the screenplay. Steve Zahn and Allen Covert host a nature program that is threatened with termination so they set out to film Bigfoot. Lame setup fades into routine road movie clichés and gross humour. Director Fred Wolf does his best but production is cheap right down to the rubbery looking Bigfoot costume. The idea of Zahn and Covert as nature hosts is appealing but they quickly becomes props to the clichés and juvenile humour. Zahn storms into a hospital after a turkey tried to "gobble" his penis. Covert is seen but does little. Ashley Scott serves no other purpose other than to be presented as a sex object for the guys. Kevin Hefferman scores a few laughs as a former mechanic and alcoholic but perhaps if the film was about this guy then maybe its chances of being funny would increase. This is a major deduction for Jonah Hill after his hilarious work in Superbad. Unfortunately he too becomes lost within a parade of idiocy. This is Fred Wolf's second unfunny comic mess this year. He also helmed the extreme xeroxed bunny brained House Bunny as well. This is a stupid comedy that should be stomped upon by Bigfoot itself. Score: 2 ½ / 10

thesar-2 I don't want to start off on a negative note – oh, that so wouldn't be like me – so let me tell you of the positive that came out of Strange Wilderness: The few – and FAR between – stock footage scenes with (mostly) Peter's (Zahn) commentary were a tad bit funny. (I'm a stats guy, so let's say that took up 2.05% of the film.)Whew, that was hard. It's almost like I had a legal commitment to say something nice, or knew one of the producers who I owed a favor to…because I can't get rid of the bad taste this retched film left.Pineapple Express, it wanted to be. Comedy, it yearned to be labeled as. Disaster amongst all terrible films it ended up as. This horribly edited and thoughtless romp barely had a good idea to begin with and was made by the same people who used the same drugs that were found in the movie.Seriously. There can be no other explanation on how the film got funding, or how the "stars" actually agreed to almost put a stop to their careers, or how they thought any of this was funny, even on paper. Oh! I thought of another positive: this made me second-guess the other movies I rated low. Perhaps, I was just too harsh on them.Five second synopsis: Animal show host dies…son continues broadcasting show into ground…IDEA: film Bigfoot & get back on top. Fini.I think it took them less time for the rest of the screenplay and a little bit more on planning on where the characters would fall next. They couldn't have spend any time on the jokes, because even the decent ones – or, let me rephrase, the models of something similar to humor – abruptly ended before the punch line, whether by bad editing, bad execution or both. Don't even get me started on the endless, mindless and scattered subplots that went nowhere or what happened to Bigfoot or why.My friends criticize my critiques of Adam Sandler and his films. This is just by his production company, but it should drive my point home. Please, someone let me know how this didn't shut down his production company, Happy Madison, or his career. All I could add to my disdain for Sandler would be: "Your Honor, I have no further evidence or witnesses. The defense rests."

kbingram My wife and I were absolutely in hysterics watching this film. It made our eyes water and really cheered us up, much along the lines of Tropic Thunder. It's very rare I laugh like that, so in my book it must have been funny. If you put your critical brains away and just watch, then you won't be disappointed.Some great one-liners such as when a shark gets their man dressed up as a sea lion you here someone shout ''let him go'' Ha Ha. or the Turkey scene or the gas induced party, ''the puffer fish inflates itself by sucking in its .....s'' Phew I'm aching just thinking about them and there's lots more gags to be had.

tompernon I actually signed up on IMDb just to share how absolutely horrible this "movie" is. Wow I just couldn't take it until the end, American Pie Book of love (which I couldn't finish either) is better. This is just a waste of time, Steve Zahn is just the worst actor ever. I can deliver the same kind of dialogs every morning after my coffee on the can... This movie is just a waste of time. I would be very interested if someone who liked the movie could tell me what they enjoyed, what actually made them laugh. I am usually a very easy movie critic and enjoy stupid movies (e.g the monster truck killer) but this just has nothing going for it. So if you want to watch a nice little movie, avoid at all costs, go watch Van Wilder the Rise of Taj, yes even that movie is better ...