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August 03, 2007
Hot Rod
(out of four)
It worked for Will Ferrell in Anchorman and Talladega Nights: Devise a cocktail-napkin sketch of a character and hope the movie falls in place around it. But by the time Hot Rod reached the screen, Ferrell had stepped aside, leaving Saturday Night Live's Andy Samberg to play amateur stuntman and accident magnet Rod Kimble. Those hoping for feature-length doses of Samberg's "Lazy Sunday" wit will have to settle for just plain lazy, as Hot Rod aims low and still manages to miss its target. Even if pic crashes and burns at the box office, it should emerge unscathed on DVD.
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