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The Dukes of Hazzard Two Movie Collection (Reunion! / Hazzard in Hollywood) by Bradford May, Lewis Teague
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DVD detailsActor: Catherine Bach, Denver Pyle, James Best, John Schneider, Tom Wopat Director: Bradford May, Lewis Teague Brand: Warner Brothers Producer: Bob Clark Writer: Bob Clark Producer: Elliot Friedgen Producer: Gy Waldron Writer: Gy Waldron Producer: Ira Marvin DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 178 minutes DVD Release Date: 2008-06-10 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Studio: Warner Home Video Product features: - What's more fun than 10 in the tank and four on the floor? Tom Wopat, John Schneider, Catherine Bach and more of your Dukes of Hazzard favorites together again! In Reunion!, folks come home to Hazzard and discover a plot to turn Hazzard Swamp into a theme park.leaving the swamp critters high and dry. Before you can say wait a durn minute, the cousins are back in the General Lee, tearing up the ro
DVD Reviews of The Dukes of Hazzard Two Movie Collection (Reunion! / Hazzard in Hollywood)DVD Review: "Igor, I want to hire your meanest muscle to help me stop a bunch of hillbillies." Summary: 4 Stars
This takes me back to when I was a kid in the '80s and tuning in to CBS on Friday nights to watch THE DUKES OF HAZZARD go back to back with THE INCREDIBLE HULK. The Dukes were always all about family values and the iconic General Lee and that theme song and Bo and Luke Duke and sexy Daisy Duke (and now you know where those Daisy Duke shorts came from). This two-disc DVD set collects the two made-for-television films which reunited the cast. Bo and Luke are still just two good ol' boys, never meanin' no harm, never mind that one is now a professional race car driver and the other is a senior smoke jumper. These two movies bring the series' trademark plate of cornpone and homespun and yeehaw. Good fun. Probably not for everyone, probably not for the hoity-toity pinky-finger-up-in-the-air-while-sipping-his-latte city slicker.
THE DUKES OF HAZZARD: REUNION aired in 1997 and it catches us up with what the Dukes have been up to (and there are some surprises; I didn't see Cooter's career change coming). With Boss Hogg having passed away, a new conniving no-good-nik steps into Hazzard County. Bo, Luke, and Daisy (and Cooter and Enos) return to Hazzard only to find Uncle Jesse in deep trouble and despised by just about everyone, at that. Josephine "Mama" Max has come to town, and she aims to build a theme park, except that the Dukes' swamp land stands in its way. Uncle Jesse ain't selling, and this is costing the good folks of Hazzard an assortment of jobs promised to them by Mama Max. Thus, the ill will towards Uncle Jesse, y'all.
A contest is proposed, to take place at the Homecoming Festival: an overland moonshine race between the General Lee and the only car that ever whipped the General. If the General wins, Uncle Jesse wins a thousand dollar prize. If the General loses, Uncle Jesse grants Mama Max access thru his property. Now if only the Dukes can find out whatever happened to the General. And then deal with Mama Max's underhandedness. And her nasty goons.
LAPD officer Enos Strate comes to town, and I'm glad he's getting respect. Enos still has his eyes on Daisy, and this time Daisy is eyeing him back. This bodes for possibly the biggest wedding ever in Hazzard. This is the kind of movie, by the way, in which Daisy Duke can ask the villainess, Mama Max, to help plan for her wedding... and Mama Max accepts. This is also the kind of movie where people have things like rattlesnake chili cook-offs. And, because you're not thrown off enough, Cynthia Rothrock shows up as a hillbilly martial artist competing in the annual Tough Person Contest. On the other hand, some things are immutable. The Hazzard County speed traps; Bo wielding that bow and arrow; the bar brawl at the Boar's Nest; Rosco P. Coltrane (now Boss Rosco) just being ridiculous. The Dukes are back, still making their way the only way they know how. But that's still just a little bit more than the law would allow.
Three years later, country comes to La-la-land in HAZZARD IN HOLLYWOOD. Hoping to make enough money to build a hospital in Hazzard, the Dukes make their way to Hollywood to sell tape recordings of famous country singers who've performed in past Hazzard County hoe-downs. And then a thug with an eye patch starts taking potshots at them. The Mad Russian Igor, a Los Angeles crime lord, wants those tapes, as well. And then, as if the Dukes aren't already neck deep, Rosco P. Coltrane gets involved with a loan shark.
Pitting the Dukes' countrified sensibilities against the urbanity of Los Angeles isn't anything new. Enos Strate had his own short-lived series back in the day when he first transferred to the LAPD. There was even an episode in ENOS in which Bo and Luke visited Enos in LA. It's no surprise that Bo and Luke and all get the best of the Angelinos (those cholos never stood a chance) and manage to adapt to their more cosmopolitan environs (it's their movie, after all). In LA, the oblivious Enos is a babe magnet, Daisy is a fearless stunt woman, Bo and Luke attend a block party hosted by vatos, and that the Russian crime lord is hooked on country line dancing. There is new love and lost love. Toby Keith sings. John Schneider sings a duet of a Merle Haggard ballad. Mac Davis is the Balladeer and he's on screen and isn't too shy about breaking the fourth wall. Just a normal day for them Dukes.
No special features on these discs. That sucks.
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Description of The Dukes of Hazzard Two Movie Collection (Reunion! / Hazzard in Hollywood)Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 06/10/2008 Run time: 178 minutes
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