Insulting.

Rating: 1/10 (14 August 2006)

Through 25+ years of going to theaters, I have never asked for my money back before. The writers avoided lampooning NASCAR and the South and ended up directly insulting both their targets and the audience. Viewers are prevented from caring about these caricatures (I didn't mean characters) because they're cardboard cutouts. I actually wanted to see them all go up in flames. In the end, I couldn't wait out the potential of that happy end. I left.
This movie takes stereotypes and throws them into even less-appealing relief by exaggerating them. Couple that with awful camera work, crude references, simplistic dialog and scenes that go 1, 2 and sometimes 3 minutes too long and ... you get this. It isn't funny; it's a road accident. That most viewers didn't understand they'd been duped into paying to be insulted is amusing. Sort of. It's also stunning. How could you NOT stand up and leave?
While it had the potential to be sharp and funny, it is dull, boring and loathsome. If entertainment is a fine steak with all the trimmings, this movie is an unseasoned flank steak left on a hot grill all afternoon. It is 1 hour and 45 minutes you'll never get back.