Dukes Of Hazzard - The Beginning (DVD)

Advantages: Funny and loads of car chases
Disadvantages: Poor acting and weak plot

.... * Direction Directing "The Dukes of Hazzard" is Jay Chandrasekhar, who other than directing the middle of the road "Club Dread" has learned his craft with TV shows. To be honest he doesn't really do anything wrong with the film, and capitalizes on one of the key elements of the original show, and that is the car chases featuring the General Lee, which he does to maximum effect. I suppose anyone who takes on a remake of a classic TV series takes on the risks associated with it and stands more chance of making a box office flop than hit. In Chandrasekhar's case I think he has done an admirable job, but just lacked the experience to make this better. DVD - Bonus Features and quality **************************************** * Bonus Features First up is a feature called "Daisy Dukes: The Short Short Shorts" which is a short feature which... Read review

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Advantages: Some good stunts
Disadvantages: Boss Hogg ain't fat, lame story

...When the Hollywood ideas factory goes on strike then there's always TV…. Back in 2000 Charlie's Angels was revamped for the big screen and made a decent amount of money. It was by no means a good film but got by just by being a bit of fun. So what other small screen gems could be turned into cash cows? Well The A-Team has often been mentioned but so far it's not materialized. For what it's worth I'd gladly sit through an A-Team movie on the big screen if it were done well. The Dukes of Hazzard was never a good TV show. It was just the same old stuff every week; it just happened to pass the time and caught an audience. But does the material justify a movie? The 'Dukes' in question are cousins Bo and Luke Duke. They drive around the hick town of Hazzard in a 1969 Dodge Charger delivering moonshine for their uncle Jessie. Quite often... Read review

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Advantages: Great to see all the initial episodes back together
Disadvantages: Hasn't really aged well to todays society

...The Dukes of Hazzard highlights fast cars, truckers, citizens' band radio, moonshine, irreverent hicks, and clueless lawmen. Dukes managed seven seasons of the tale of a Deep South family of reformed whiskey-makers and their running feud with a greedy impresario and his chief lackey, a buffoonish sheriff. This three-disc set includes all 13 initial episodes of Dukes from 1979. At the center of the action are Sheriff Roscoe's nemeses, cousins Bo Duke (John Schneider) and Luke Duke (Tom Wopat), a couple of wild boys buzzing through the backwoods in the "General Lee," a souped-up Dodge Charger. Bo and Luke are good at heart but have to behave themselves while on indefinite probation, complicating but not halting their efforts to vex Roscoe and his patron, diminutive bigwig Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke). The enmity runs both ways: Roscoe... Read review

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