Hot Rod
Self-proclaimed stuntman Rod Kimble is preparing for the jump of his life - to clear fifteen buses to raise money for his abusive stepfather Frank's life-saving heart operation.
29 September 1942, Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK
1976, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
5 February 1967, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
31 October 1970, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
7 June 1978, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
April 28, 2014
People like me who are fans of sophomoric humor, it's a hoot.
December 18, 2010
Awesomely dumb slapstick is for teens and adults only.
August 09, 2007
We know from the Lazy Sunday bits Samberg's a funny guy, but he doesn't have enough to work with here.
January 01, 2009
Oh, Napoleon Dynamite! What have you wrought? [Blu-ray]
August 03, 2007
Samberg can't carry this, though director Akiva Schaffer supplies some hilarious, Jackass-style wipeouts.
September 01, 2007
If you're looking for plausibility, this is not your movie. If you're looking for laughs, this is not your movie. If you like seeing delusional overgrown adolescents fall down a lot, then this one's for you.
August 03, 2007
Imagine a Stand by Me on wheels, with dialogue spoken by 20-something actors instead of 12-year-olds, and you have the essence of the script.
August 05, 2007
Started to go bad about the time someone in casting said, "You know what? I'll bet America is just about ready for the comedy stylings of Sissy Spacek."
November 15, 2011
A perennial problem with comedy from regular collaborators is that the results feel too much like friends' in-jokes.
December 13, 2008
...comedy is a subjective thing, and what makes one person laugh may simply bore someone else. Hod Rod bored me.
May 13, 2009
What works, wonderfully, are the falls, the punch-outs (his brawls with Stepdad are brutal throw-downs) and waiting for that next accident to happen.
July 06, 2010
The results are barely worth an illegal download.
