The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning (2007)

What a beautiful movie!

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

hyped garbage

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

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!

Recap: Bo and Luke Duke are cousins that have an uncanny ability for getting in trouble. To get them straightened out their parents send them to Uncle Jesse and his farm. But Uncle Jesse is pretty good at finding trouble himself, being in the moonshining business like he is. But now the town's major Boss Hogg want to maneuver him out, so the whole family must work together to save the farm. But what about young cousin Daisy, the good girl in the family… Comments: A really juvenile and poor attempt to make a prequel of the "Young… " kind. Supposed to follow in the wake of Dukes of Hazzard (2005) but compared to that the previous looks like a masterpiece of class and intelligence. And that is saying some. The jokes in this prequel is crude, and mostly not funny at all. It is very juvenile and tries to cover up the lack of good jokes or serious story with a bunch of bare breasts and semi-nudity.If you have seen the modern remake you might have found it rather silly. Then you might find it hard to believe that this much, and I mean much, sillier than that. It is really stupid actually. Almost all characters, apart from Uncle Jesse, that is played by Willie Nelson, and Daisy, have regressed back to being immature teenagers. Everything for being as silly as possible and desperate for (accidently) falling over a cheap joke. The result is of course that it is tiresome and boring instead.Can't really imagine why Willie Nelson agreed to do this, I thought he had more class than this. The only other actress to leave this movie with her respect mostly intact is (beautiful) April Scott. The character Daisy seem to have some intelligence and depth, even if she too suffers from the juvenile-disease.I liked the Dukes of Hazzard (2005). Sure, it was a little immature and silly, but in all managed to balance it pretty good. In this sequel they have lost it all and tipped over completely.3/10

I mean yeah, it doesn't have what I expect from the TV series that we grown to love and sure that most of the former dukes cast including Bo duke himself John Schneider didn't really like this or the other movie, but it's still good I mean it's pretty obvious they'd start out as moonshiners why do you think the TV's rosco keeps an eye on them in the series and come on all the guys that watched this movie and the seires you got to admit you liked when they uncensored daisy. and come on it's the 21st century what the filmmakers did was what the guys who made the series have been dying to do but can't because the FCC had a tighter stranglehold back then. I've seen this movie I laughed and I liked it. and I bet you guys didn't even watch it you guys just listen to what others said and thought "oh ya he's right I never seen this movie I guess because he's right I should boycott it" if that's true then watch the damn movie before you can criticize it. Oh and just so you know the moon shining business plot is not only true to the TV series but to the movie "Moonrunners". if not for that then there wouldn't be the Good ole boys.

My wife is a huge Dukes of Hazzard fan, and I enjoyed it as a kid as well. When I found out they made this 'sequel' to the movie, I really was looking forward to watching it. We sat down and watched it last night. Although I found the first 1/3 engrossing, the second third of the movie went downhill, and the final 1/3 was just plain boring. I got out a book and ended up reading and not paying very much attention towards the end. Yes, I thought it was that bad. I figured that maybe it had a fantastic ending or something that might have made up for how far downhill it slid, but my wife says no. The main reasons I have for not liking this thing at all are 1) predictability - just about everything in this movie goes by the book, and is terribly formulaic 2) the acting - over the top, not very believable 3) the writing, and some of the lines are particularly unbelievable and off putting. They could have made a great movie out of this if they had simply paid the writers for Frasier (or some equally talented folks) to come up with a witty take on the whole concept. One thing that really made me mad was the fact that my favorite character from the series was the most annoying in this - Cooter. I just found myself hating this clueless buffoon, yet also feeling sorry for him because he was in this movie. Please skip this one - you've been warned.