everything you have heard about this movie is true.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Three childhood friends reunite following their adventurous friend Billy's death. Jerry Conlaine (Matthew Lillard) is struggling at work and missed an anniversary date with his girlfriend. Dan Mott (Seth Green) is a doctor and too scared to ask out his receptionist. Tom Marshall (Dax Shepard) is the irresponsible one. They find the old box filled with D.B. Cooper clues in their old treehouse. Apparently, Billy has been investigating and closing in on his trail. The guys decide to honor Billy by going on the treasure hunt.The cast is believable as friends although they get a bit annoying. The three guys are still reasonably likable. Essentially Seth takes the brunt of the jokes. There are a couple of good laughs but it doesn't last. This is simply not enough and there are too many setups that don't pay off well.

Comedic version of Deliverance where three childhood friends set out into the woodlands of America to search for a lost briefcase filled with money. The film is actually light on humour and high on sentiment. The themes are hammered into us, and are actually just spoken out loud. "Life, that IS the treasure". Despite this, when it is funny it gets some big laughs. All the scenes are episodic, with the trio meeting a threatening bear, some hillbillies, a mountain man, and some hippies in a tree. The film relies too much on the men being uncomfortable with homosexuality. Burt Reynolds shows up to pay homage to Deliverance, but doesn't completely embarrass himself or shame the film. Perhaps the wig and make-up helped. I'm always going to laugh at stoned animals so it had that going for it. The locations were often stunning, which helped in the long pauses between jokes. Quick and enjoyable, it never really angered me and it kept me interested.

This is the story of three friends (Green, Lillard, Shepard) from the big city of Philadelphia who go canoeing together out in the woods and mountains of Oregon State after the death of a friend, Billy. Billy was obsessed with going there to search for the unaccounted-for $194,200 out of the $200,000 that famed airliner highjacker D.B. Cooper parachuted with quite possibly to his death in 1971 $5,800 of his marked ransom loot was found in 1980. Canoeing down the Columbia River, the trio soon finds that their canoeing experience goes wrong..., both horribly and hilariously wrong, as the river turns dangerous, and they have encounters with the crazy mountain men (Burt Reynolds) plays who live near the river. Without a Paddle 9/10

Without a Paddle is by far, by favorite movie. It made me laugh so so much! There's nothing to hate about this movie, and its satisfying the whole way through. The ending, when the kid says, "What's A Downstairs?" is hilarious and leaves the watchers laughing as they're walking out. I bought this movie on DVD when it first came out and I watch it every now and then when I feel like a good laugh! I rated this movie a definite 10! There is such a good plot in the movie, and there are sad parts, happy parts, hilarious parts, "inappropriate parts", and heartwarming parts. It's so sweet when they sing, "Do you really wanna hurt me, do you really wanna make me cry", as Dan's going through the tunnel to save his friends and D.B.'s treasure. Also, the guys are hott!