This movie has many of the elements that make up a bad movie: It is a remake of a bad TV show, it features Jessica Simpson and the gimmick of the move is a car with a big Confederate flag on the roof. And white-trash chic is getting really old.
The Dukes of Hazzard, however, was not a bad movie. It parodies the bad TV show and Jessica Simpson is only featured in the movie enough to feature her features, and then she gets out of the way. The flag on top of the General Lee is dealt with comically when the boys (Johnny Knoxville and Seann William Scott) leave podunk Hazzard County to visit the progressive city (ha!) of Atlanta. As far as the white-trash chic, well, deal with it.
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Thursday, August 04, 2005
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