Fairly amusing story of 3 childhood friends, and their difficulties settling into adult life over 30. Upon the untimely death of a mutual friend, as a diversion, they embark upon a treasure hunt they'd planned ever since they were kids. Their characters and neuroses from the time they "learned to pee straight", as another character puts it, continue to dictate their current interrelationships as their canoe goes over a waterfall and they stumble upon an illegal marijuana farm whose hillbilly owners then pursue them with intent to kill. Along the way they find a crooked crooked tooth sheriff, a couple of "joygasmic" flower girls who live in a tree, and, in a nod to "Deliverance", Burt Reynolds, as a mountain man at their destination. The well-established interrelationships of the 3 principals make for gags one expects, often even anticipates, and fun, some more so, some less. The flower girls are a highlight. The sheriff is yet another cliche' smokey, and though the hillbillies are scripted to say unusual things one wouldn't expect hillbillies to say, intended to be funny, some of which genuinely are, but overall, with their badge-wearing cohort, they are the weakest comic elements. Burt Reynolds makes no special impression. In the end our heroes emerge, bonds strengthened, and resolved to face life with renewed vigor and hope. Yea! The End.
Undemandingly enjoyable.
Undemandingly enjoyable.