Movie Review- Without a Paddle
RiftTraveler, on host 66.245.70.218
Wednesday, August 18, 2004, at 23:49:23
Tom, Billy, Dan, and Jerry are best friends. They've been together since playing together since they were younger, graduated high school together, and then went their own seperate ways over the course of ten years. At the end of that decade, one of them has died in a parasailing accident, and the others come together and visit their childhood haunts, including a treehouse at which they all used to hang out.
There, they find an old box, with a promise they all swore to, that they would not claim their greatest treasures until they discovered DB Cooper's lost treasure. They further discover that their recently deceased friend had deduced where DB had gone, and left the information in the box for them to find.
And so they set off to find the money, and the adventure begins. An adventure which includes a bear, two crazy marijuana farmers, two EarthChildren, and one slight plot twist at the end.
I had no initial feelings coming into this movie one way or another, but coming out, I was left feeling happy, and satisfied. This was a surprisingly good movie, for the initial way it starts. In the beginning, things were a little too easy for me. Things happened that seemed to exist just so the movie could get started, with little or no relevance to whether or not it made sense in the context of the movie.
That, however, is only in the first eighth of the movie. After that, things begin to pick up, and we see each character's personality emerge. Matthew Lillard has some of the best lines in the movie, while Seth Green has the best expressions and nonverbal communication. Dax Shepherd is the heady down to earth guy, and each personality remains strong throughout the movie, much to my enjoyment.
The plot gets going strong, and holds together, resulting in a piece of work that I throughly enjoyed, and would suggest to everyone.
4.5/5 Stars.
Rift "That's Culture Club....... I went through a new wave phase." Traveler
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