Three lifelong buddies reunite when their other childhood friend dies in an accident while adventuring. They then find a treasure map left by him in their old treehouse and so they decide to taste life a little and go looking for the treasure in the deep Oregon backwoods, just like their late friend would have wanted them to. Although I’m sure he wouldn’t have minded if they were funny in the process. No such luck here…

Incredible! They actually go out of their way not to be funny in this comedy! What’s even stranger is that this garbage was actually a surprise hit at the end of last summer and made decent coin. And just when I thought this movie couldn’t get any more lame and unoriginal, they dump in a worn-out Matrix slow-motion gag and throw in Burt Reynolds playing a boring old grizzly mountain man. It’s discouraging to see a movie like this make the kind of money it did because then writers will think they can continue writing uninspired, by-the-numbers buddy comedies like this and continue coasting into box office success. Although I’m sure this was just a fluke, nothing can explain why this movie was even remotely successful. The only person who comes off clean is PUNK’D alum Dax Shepard, who, as un-comical as he is in the movie, still does enough to prove that he’s got the goods to graduate to feature films.

This is really bottom-of-barrel filmmaking here. Every tired old gag from past comedies is recycled here. The three guys huddle together shirtless in a homoerotic way to keep warm – check! The guys get stoned accidentally when a pot farm catches fire – check!  Some dogs get stoned too – check! Actually I can’t think of much else because the rest of the movie involves the three guys in relentless chase scenes running away from two hillbilly pot farmers (actor Abraham Benrubi is completely wasted in this movie) with shotguns. Those parts aren’t supposed to be exciting, you see, they’re supposed to be the fun action adventure part of the movie. Supposed to be. The only good that came out of this movie is the basic idea that one should always remain close to good childhood friends and try to live life with the innocence and joie de vivre that one had in their youth. That message was clear in the treehouse scene about ten minutes in, the rest of the movie just ruins it for you. This movie is the opposite of funny, entertaining and original. The only interesting thing that happened is when the DVD started skipping and I had to take it out and clean it. Unfortunately it worked…