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Media Type: DVD
Artist: SMOKEY & THE BANDIT
Title: SMOKEY & THE BANDIT
Street Release Date: 02/06/2007
Domestic
Genre: ACTION / ADVENTURE

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1883 in DVD
• Brand: SMOKEY & THE BANDIT
• Released on: 2006-05-30
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .30 pounds
• Running time: 96 minutes

Amazon.com
It's easy to assume this is just another dumb redneck comedy from Burt Reynolds's years of underachievement. But it's not bad as a dumb redneck comedy at all. Directed by career stuntman Hal Needham, Smokey and the Bandit is just a goofy chase starring a bunch of Reynolds's Hollywood cronies. New to the job as film boss, Needham brings a silly but energized sensibility to the production and an action man's need to see things moving. But he also has a distinctive feeling for relationships, and he's good with a joke. Put all that together, and Smokey is, at the very least (and unlike its sequels), a simple and original pleasure. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews

A movie any American should love
"East Bound and Down" is one of the great country songs, and this movie is the greatest road movie ever made, the redneck "Easy Rider," the AMERICAN "Easy Rider" (as Patton said, "Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser!"), filled with car chases and car wrecks, one babe, a beautifully ridiculous story, the great Jerry Reed at his weary but sarcastic redneck best, and Burt R.'s mustache at its cheesiest. It's the movie those two hippie goofs in "Easy Rider" might have made if they'd taken themselves less seriously. In "Smokey and the Bandit" one of the protagonists gets the babe, both get the cash and then let it ride on a double-or-nothing, and go on to greater adventures. At least one of the hippies in "Easy Rider" was unable to close the deal with a chippie, and both died in the mud in Louisiana. Killed by rednecks!

"Smokey and the Bandit" is worth watching at any time, even with commercial interruptions. Great enough to own a copy. Five stars.

smokey and the bandit
one of the best comedy films ever made
for me its number one a true classic

Great gift
I purchased this for DVD for a friend, she was thrilled to receive it.
She loves the Burt Reynolds and Sally Fields combo. She loves to laugh at movies, rarely watches dramas.

I'm sure this was a great choice for her gift.