by Ailran

Created on: March 04, 2007   Last Updated: April 09, 2009

Yee hah! Those southern rebels, relics of a bygone age even in the 1970's are back again, and you wouldn't know any time had passed since we last saw their Confederate flag decorated car, General Lee, back in the late 70's/early 80's.

Bo & Luke Duke (Seann William Scott & Johnny Knoxville) are cousins, they are also rip roaring, happy go lucky guys with a healthy disrespect for the law, mainly because Boss Hogg (Burt Reynolds), the mayor of Hazzard, is not exactly a citizen of good standing himself and Sheriff Roscoe P Coltrane is hip deep in his pocket. Hogg and Coltrane are more than likely to be involved in more devious criminal escapades than Bo & Luke themselves, whose main crimes are the delivering of moonshine made by their Uncle Jesse (Willie Nelson) and completely ignoring any rules of the road, they drive at very high speeds both on and off the road. Mischief is the name of their game and they are masters at it.

The main story of Dukes of Hazzard, revolving around cars, stunts, fast driving, very short shorts on Cousin Daisy Duke (Jessica Simpson), cars, crashes and car racing (notice the recurring theme of the film yet?), is that of the upcoming Hazzard road rally. Bo is the four time winner of it and this year he has to take on an ex Hazzard county boy, and now pro racer, Billy Prickett. Prickett is also a four-time winner of the rally and has come back to Hazzard just to race in the rally. Meanwhile Boss Hogg is up to some underhand tricks to steal land and property and is doing everything he can to increase his own personal fortune to the detriment of the good citizens of Hazzard county.

Bo & Luke, with a lot of help from Daisy and her skimpy clothes need to find out what Boss Hogg is up to, stop him, win the race and get the girls if they can, it could be a tall order for those Good Old Boys!

To be honest the plot means nothing, it is just something used to string together all the aforementioned car stunts, crashes and chases, but then what else would you expect from a Dukes of Hazzard film. No one who goes to see this will come out disappointed because you know exactly what you are going to get.
Sure it has no redeeming qualities at all but again what would you expect?

It is a guys' film out and out, there isn't even any good-looking guys that may just attract the attention of the women. Dukes does contain everything a teenage boy, or an adult that hasn't grown up yet, would love to see.
I find it amazing that the critics have given Dukes such

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