An Exercise In Nonsense

Amateur movie with Big budget

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

This is done in the vein of "Dukes of Hazzard" with cops chasing drug runners. It is at best, hokey fun, at worst, unwatchable. The Watson brothers meet an airplane carrying marijuana and a little cocaine and the cops are always waiting for them. Not much in the way of script or acting.Guide: No swearing, sex, or nudity. Available on 50 DVD packs.

Yes, I'm a "B" movie freak. But this cinematic epic goes so much further into the "black hole" of low budget projects I could not help but enjoy the heck out of it. "No stunt men were used" - well Junior, you don't need stunt men to pick up a cardboard box painted up like a 2-ton safe and toss it into the trunk of an old Chrysler for Pete's sake. But there are plenty other gut-busting "beyond slapstick" antics to make up for the cheese and a surprising feel of reality in some of the dark corners of the picture.The one aspect of this film that captured my attention is the down and dirty honesty in the acting - even in scenes where unbelievable things are happening you get the feeling that you're seeing exactly how these people would react in the moment and somehow the phoniness drains off in a really weird way. It's kind of like the 8mm shoot 'em up you made as a kid and you're lying face down on the sidewalk knowing full well it's ketchup - "but it sure looked like blood to me..." I just couldn't help but enjoy this one "warts and all" as they say; maybe it's fitting that this was the one and only performance nearly all the actors ever produced. You just couldn't top it - even if you tried.

Apparently, according to a couple other commentators. But trust me, if you're not highly goosed you will be pretty bored. The amateur performances, dated styles etc. can only go so far in alleviating the tedium of a movie so steadily flatfooted it isn't even unintentionally funny. To its credit, there are some decent car stunts where they clearly really did wreck automobiles, if only for lack of any FX budget or expertise. (A final credit claims "No stunt men were used in this film.") But otherwise, this is incredibly monotonous and unexciting. I love excavating old regional exploitation movies, but this one would only hold your interest if you'd lived in the locations or had some connection to the original real-life story.

Boy, they just don't make them like this one anymore. Thank God for that! This is a pathetically dreary film about a "gang" of drug smugglers and their not-so-funny misadventures as they are hounded by the Georgia State Patrol while first in a beat up camper and then a huge rig. I would guess that at least half of the film is made up of lame chases, which is considerably better than having the acting "leads" on screen for any time at all. The police are portrayed as complete idiots as they have multiple cars unable to derail a camper until a fifteen minute chase has ended - only to have the "gang" break out of prison by a helicopter. The two leads are long-haired non-actors Don Watson and Bobby Watson playing Oosh and Boosh. They are criminals with no redeeming attributes and live to have a joint. The other performers are just as talented with some really bad turns by the likes of James Crews as "Bubble Eye, " Sandy St. Armour as the head of "the Organization, " and in the most ridiculous role we have Jim Whozitt(sometimes credited as Big Jim - c'mmon this is the only film he ever did) as the Pilot. He is flying to Columbia to get 10 million's worth in cocaine and pot and wears the most God-awful sansabelt slacks even for the 70's. This is a bad movie all around and very amateurish, but unlike other inept efforts in film-making - this one is just no fun at all to sit through. It plods on and on, trying to funny in some spots and failing miserably. It fails when it tries to shock a few times as well. This makes the Smokey and the Bandit series almost look like art.