Review by Johnny Mic
1/6/08
Rating: 1/20

Employs Academy Award Winner (and really funny actress?) Sissy Spacek, whose medicated performance eerily resembles the deflated sadness of Mia Farrow in 2007’s biggest comedy miss, The Ex. Hot Rod fails from the get-go as it does not star Kutcher, who would have been much better cast as a Stuntman Mike wannabe doofus. Consequently, the movie tallied a dismal $15 million at the U.S box office.

First time film star Andy Samberg conned the studio into letting his slightly-ahead-of-its-time production company co-op credit (watch them bomb on Fox). Even more unfortunate for the viewing public, Hot Rod’s screenwriter has signed on to write two more big budget comedies that will undoubtedly suck.

Who do you think were the real brains behind Lazy Sunday or Dick-In-A-Box anyway? I’ve heard that the Satanic Robert Evans used to deride Francis Ford Coppola on a daily basis, telling him his actors were terrible, that his music sucked. You don’t need to be a big shot movie producer to know that in Hot Rod, the woodland Footloose dance montage sequence goes on waayyy too long.

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