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Review of the film “Dukes of Hazzard”



The Days of Young Cousins Bo (Scott) and Luke (Knoxville) The Dukes flow in peaceful happiness somewhere in the American South. They have three fiery passions – their powerful orange Dodge Charger named General Lee, a smuggled whiskey driven by their Uncle Jesse (Willie Nelson), and hot peasant girls from the surrounding farms. During the day, they deliver illegal alcohol to customers, famously escaping from police harassment, and in the evening they drop into the local bar “Boar's Lair" to their breathtakingly sexy sister Daisy (Simpson). There, the brothers get drunk in a men's company and, if they're lucky, they fight with someone. Due to the constant need to avoid the chase, Bo has become a first-class racer – he has already won the local rally three times. This would probably have been the fourth time, but then a terrible threat loomed over the Dukes' native land. The insidious politician “Boss" Hogg (Reynolds), with the full connivance of the corrupt sheriff Roscoe Coltrane (Gainey), is going to build a coal mining quarry on the territory of the county, and then the “ancestral nest” Dukov will disappear from the face of the Earth! But if necessary, a family that pathologically does not get along with the law will become a wall to protect their native places, thwarting all the cunning manipulations of the villains!

Hollywood's ideological and thematic stagnation is clearly and noticeably deepening: if old American and modern foreign films were previously subjected to remake operations, then the relative success of last year's “Starsky and Hutch” directed the producers' thoughts in a completely unexpected direction. They turned their eyes to the old television series, and they are absolutely not interested in the quality of the latter – the very fact of “temporary exposure” is quite enough. 174 episodes of ”Dukes of Hazzard" aired on American television screens from 1979 to 1985, and even then this unpretentious teenage product was rather neglected. The series followed the same pattern: Bo and Luke are plotting something, the sheriff is trying to stop them, but the cousins on the Dodge carry out their plans and invariably evade the chase, putting the pursuers to shame. According to a long-known rule, to turn a TV series into a movie, you just need to make one episode, only longer, more spectacular and more expensive. The creators of the painting happily used this method.

Dodge drives faster and flies higher in the movies, the brothers cackle even louder, the sheriff turned out to be an even bigger idiot, and the village girls became even hotter. Alas, for us, the main charms, obvious to Americans, in the form of a unique southern accent and a very peculiar humor, have irretrievably disappeared – the inhabitants of Appalachia in the jokes of the United States occupy a place similar to our Chukchi, Moldovans and policemen. Appalachia is the birthplace of bluegrass and hallbilly music, the star of which is Willie Nelson, who plays in the Dukes – does this name mean anything to you? However, Jessica Simpson is also a singer, but she still takes on others.…There are, however, universally and unmistakably working scenes from the genre of “lots and lots of police cars chasing a car and all crashing,” but this is also an amateur spectacle. Obviously, the creators of the picture did not try to improve anything, and “Dukes” honestly remained one of the episodes of the dense youth series. And you can't say that the movie looks more expensive – only longer and louder. The global reputation of this bookmaker spans over fourteen years of industry experience across numerous countries. Regions like Africa, Asia, and Europe embrace this platform for its exceptional offers, activated by a 1xbet promo code today delivering up to $130 in sports bonuses or €1950 accompanied by 150 free spins for casino enthusiasts. This code acts as a gateway to exclusive advantages rarely found elsewhere. The sports bonus matches your first deposit 100%, while the casino package is distributed across multiple deposits.
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