Strange Wilderness (2008): Dir: Fred Wolf / Cast: Steve Zahn, Alan Covert, Ashley Scott, Kevin Hefferman, Jonah Hill: A pitiful comedy about man's relationship with nature. Too bad the screenwriter didn't get it on quite as well with the screenplay. Steve Zahn and Allen Covert host a nature program that is threatened with termination so they set out to film Bigfoot. Lame setup fades into routine road movie clichés and gross humour. Director Fred Wolf does his best but production is cheap right down to the rubbery looking Bigfoot costume. The idea of Zahn and Covert as nature hosts is appealing but they quickly becomes props to the clichés and juvenile humour. Zahn storms into a hospital after a turkey tried to "gobble" his penis. Covert is seen but does little. Ashley Scott serves no other purpose other than to be presented as a sex object for the guys. Kevin Hefferman scores a few laughs as a former mechanic and alcoholic but perhaps if the film was about this guy then maybe its chances of being funny would increase. This is a major deduction for Jonah Hill after his hilarious work in Superbad. Unfortunately he too becomes lost within a parade of idiocy. This is Fred Wolf's second unfunny comic mess this year. He also helmed the extreme xeroxed bunny brained House Bunny as well. This is a stupid comedy that should be stomped upon by Bigfoot itself. Score: 2 ½ / 10

I don't want to start off on a negative note – oh, that so wouldn't be like me – so let me tell you of the positive that came out of Strange Wilderness: The few – and FAR between – stock footage scenes with (mostly) Peter's (Zahn) commentary were a tad bit funny. (I'm a stats guy, so let's say that took up 2.05% of the film.)Whew, that was hard. It's almost like I had a legal commitment to say something nice, or knew one of the producers who I owed a favor to…because I can't get rid of the bad taste this retched film left.Pineapple Express, it wanted to be. Comedy, it yearned to be labeled as. Disaster amongst all terrible films it ended up as. This horribly edited and thoughtless romp barely had a good idea to begin with and was made by the same people who used the same drugs that were found in the movie.Seriously. There can be no other explanation on how the film got funding, or how the "stars" actually agreed to almost put a stop to their careers, or how they thought any of this was funny, even on paper. Oh! I thought of another positive: this made me second-guess the other movies I rated low. Perhaps, I was just too harsh on them.Five second synopsis: Animal show host dies…son continues broadcasting show into ground…IDEA: film Bigfoot & get back on top. Fini.I think it took them less time for the rest of the screenplay and a little bit more on planning on where the characters would fall next. They couldn't have spend any time on the jokes, because even the decent ones – or, let me rephrase, the models of something similar to humor – abruptly ended before the punch line, whether by bad editing, bad execution or both. Don't even get me started on the endless, mindless and scattered subplots that went nowhere or what happened to Bigfoot or why.My friends criticize my critiques of Adam Sandler and his films. This is just by his production company, but it should drive my point home. Please, someone let me know how this didn't shut down his production company, Happy Madison, or his career. All I could add to my disdain for Sandler would be: "Your Honor, I have no further evidence or witnesses. The defense rests."

Strange wilderness is one of the worst movies I have witnessed to watch. The acting is awful, the direction is way off and the jokes went flat and were completely unfunny. Seeing the comedic talent from the cast, I was expecting something funny, along the lines of Superbad (though not as funny or good), accepted and somewhat grandma's boy. But this was by far worst then all of those films. The plot in this film is ridiculous. It's basically about a guy- Peter (Steve Zahn) trying to keep his father's dream of a televised animal program afloat, which has plummeted in the ratings. Peter come across a map to the home of Bigfoot. Seizing this opportunity, Peter and his crew (Allen Covert, Ashley Scott, Justin Long, Jonah Hill, Kevin Heffernan, Peter Dante) race to the wilds of South America to find Bigfoot, filming their substantial misadventures along the way. I didn't laugh at really anything, maybe a few of the voice overs from the video show (the shark one at the end was actually kinda funny), but apart from that everything else was just annoying, gross, disturbing and awful.

Will it win an award? No.Is it the dumbest god damn thing ever put to celluloid? Probably.Is it also insanely funny? Hell yes.Does it achieve it's goal of making you laugh/killing time while you wait for a pizza to arrive before you watch The Bicycle Thieves or The Third Man? Yeah, and that's how I started watching this movie. My friends and I rented about eight of the best films ever made, then picked this one up because our local video store didn't have a copy of Miller's Crossing.It...rocked. In a night of the greatest movies ever made, we still loved this film for actually accomplishing it's only goal: making you cry with laughter.