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John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: What promises to be a comic take on the 1972 thriller Deliverance, is actually closer to Dude, Where's My Car? as it drifts aimlessly from one dopey situation to another. Read more
Sid Smith, Chicago Tribune: A testosterone comedy that might just as well be titled Without a Brain Cell. Read more
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: Without a Paddle wants to fascinate us with our own repulsion, and the wraparound, absurdly sentimental story is there to fill space between obvious and appalling sight gags. Read more
Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle: The first half of the film is enjoyable but hit and miss. After that, it's just miss. Read more
Kathy Cano Murillo, Arizona Republic: A guy film that chicks will dig, too. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Five screenwriters, three stars, maybe two good jokes. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: Despite some agreeably idiotic moments, Without a Paddle is also mostly without a rudder. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: A successfully infantile new spin on Deliverance. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: A consistently amusing, often hilarious outing with surprising heart. Read more
Scott Brown, Entertainment Weekly: Without has all the freshness of moldering Playboys stashed under a mattress, but it evokes what few boys-will-be-boys larks can: chumminess. Read more
Matt Weitz, Dallas Morning News: The movie does have funny moments, and there's a sweetness unusual in your standard stupid summer comedy. Read more
Robert Abele, L.A. Weekly: [Plays] like something even John Hughes would have left in the drawer. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: It programs its cheap laughs efficiently enough to make you think you're not really wasting your time. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: Some tales center on man vs. nature, others on man vs. man. Without a Paddle falls within a third category: man vs. poorly conceived script. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: There are a few gross-out laughs, but Without a Paddle's gang-written script doesn't know what it wants to be. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: The homosexual panic instilled by Deliverance fuels the running joke driving the uneasy laughs evoked by this loathsome comedy. Read more
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel: This is the kind of comedy in which the aim is to make the audience cringe. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Without a Paddle is so bad that it will annoy and/or bore those who have minimal standards and a high tolerance for sewage. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: City Slickers remade for Three Stooges fans. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Inoffensive to a fault, Without a Paddle goes by without a memorable ripple. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Forget being up a raging creek without a paddle, these poor losers are lost in a wilderness that permits no comedy. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Think Road Trip meets City Slickers. Then dial the humor down a few notches, and you're left Without a Paddle. Read more
Dennis Harvey, Variety: An unstable -- if mostly painless -- mix of low comedy, stabs at higher silliness, and schmaltz. Read more
Mark Holcomb, Village Voice: How do you siphon the laffs from a surefire gut-busting premise like city slickers stuck in the sticks? ... you assemble a cut-rate Three Stooges, inject tired '80s nostalgia and some moralistic goo about carpe-ing the diem. Read more
Sara Gebhardt, Washington Post: The cheesy, unconvincing moments centered on the characters' serious discussions of life and friendship really seem unnatural and ruin the flow of the physical comedy. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: You can say of Without a Paddle that at least it cares enough to steal from the very best. Unfortunately, that's about all it cares about. Read more