The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning

2007 "These are the Duke boys... from the beginning!"
4.4| 1h35m| R| en
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When mischievous teenaged cousins Bo and Luke Duke are arrested, both boys are paroled to the care of their Uncle Jesse in Hazzard, sentenced to a summer of hard work. It's not long before the Duke boys learn of Boss Hogg's plans to foreclose on Uncle Jesse's farm. Together, with help from their cousin Daisy, Bo and Luke vow to save the family's property and its storied history of producing the best moonshine in all of Hazzard.

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StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.
Rijndri Load of rubbish!!
Misteraser Critics,are you kidding us
Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
almazami-99181 I want some people to help me I want watch this movie How I can watched
jstnwrkmn For those of us who are real fans of the TV show The Dukes of Hazzard, this movie has it all wrong!In the movie Bo, Luke, Daisy are teenagers. Therefore, we all know based on the original show, there were no cellphones! The movie clearly states the Duke boys are at Uncle Jesse's for the summer, yet, they go to the high school where class is still in session. In this movie the Duke boys find the General Lee at the bottom of Hogg's Ravine covered by water. This completely goes against knowing in the TV show Bo and Luke found the Black 69 Charger that became the General Lee at a used car lot WELL after they were teenagers. I know for the sake of the Dukes of Hazzard they HAD to have the General in the movie, so I can't fault them tooooooooo much. The boars nest looks like a somewhat modern bar, which is fine by be, but they show Boss Hogg's office in the movie, WITHOUT having a pool table or a barbers chair in it....and the office looked more like a small closet!They used several new Ford Crown Vic's in the show as police cruisers, not to mention Huey has a new BMW. For the producer to be making a movie that was technically supposed to be taking place in the 1970's NO attempt was made to make it look somewhat realistic. Now we all know the Duke boys were woman crazy, so I don't fault the fact the producer used that frequently in the movie. What I do fault the producer for, is the foul language, nudity, and many many many sexual references used. Not to mention having Lulu Hogg seducing Luke..c'mon. NOT Dukes-likeThat all said...the story is right in line with the original Dukes, everything else about this movie sucked. If this were just any ol' movie NOT based on the Dukes, I could appreciate it a little more. The Dukes of Hazzard is a wonderful TV show, movies like this, just give the Dukes a bad name!
Elmware I just got it yesterday and it's not bad but a couple things just didn't quite tie in with the 2005 movie or the series, like how the Duke boys first got the General Lee was told differently in an episode in season 7. The location of Uncle Jesse's still was somewhere else on the farm and one of the doors on the General Lee opened while the other was welded shut. Also, they had the Dixie horn in the car already, but in the 2005 movie, Cooter and his friends have it installed while they are fixing the General Lee up.They only jumped the General Lee once in the whole movie. Even though it was a huge jump, it didn't seem very convincing.Most of the characters were better suited for their role, and they even had a somewhat more goofier and silly Rosco, which is the Rosco that I liked in the series. I think Cooter was too weird though.April Scott definitely looked way better than Jessica Simpson.They even had some funny jokes worth laughing at in this movie.
David Isaak Growing up The Dukes of Hazzard was one of my favorite shows. The cast had charisma, and the show had an authentic, country feel to it. The 2005 movie was part of the "re-imagination" trend in movies that started with The Flintstones and continues today with this atrocity. Instead of re-imagining them in today's times they should have cast the younger Dukes in the 1960's when they would have been legit teenagers, to keep in continuity with the show. They should have done this with the 2005 movie, too. This movie is a cynical, straight-to-DVD-and-TV, bottom-of-the-barrel hack job and it barely held my attention.The problem with the plot is that it's a low-rent version of the TV show. Aren't there any writers in Hollywood who can write an original Dukes of Hazzard movie? My guess is there are plenty, but the producers have too much contempt for their audience to think they would appreciate a gritty, true-to-the-spirit-of-Hazzard script. Fans of the original series shouldn't avoid it because of profanity, they should avoid it because it is Dukes of Hazzard in name only now.The most important thing to me is the casting of Daisy, and they failed miserably here. In the series Daisy was a smart woman who happened to wear cut-off shorts. In 2005 she was a sexpot wearing cut-off shorts, nothing more than eye candy, playing the part as a parody. There's little to say about April Scott: she isn't even close to being a young Daisy in this movie. I'm not talking about physical proportions (although I think she's too thin for a southern Belle); I'm talking about charisma and the intangibles you need to play an iconic character. She doesn't have it.The lameness extends to all aspects of the re-imagining. The characters have become lame caricatures of themselves, and Hazzard County is no longer the dusty, mythical Confederate backdrop it once was. There's no point in "re-imagining" the Dukes of Hazzard if you're going to get politically correct. The original series was uncynically proud to be Dixie, and that was a huge part of it's appeal. If this movie is a finger-in-the-wind to see if a new TV series will work, I hope it fails miserably in ratings and sales.And Willie, did you really need the paycheck?