Stand on It!

Yeah it's a low budget. But it's fun. And it is like the Smokey and the Bandit version of Not Another Teen Movie.

It has something from almost every classic car / truck movie that has been made in it. Every scene has either something in the background or in the script that is directly related to another show. The fun part is seeing what you find. From My Cousin Vinny to Beverly Hillsbillies it's all in it. You need to pay attention, and make sure you got your ears on or you're going to miss them.

Test your movie and show knowledge by seeing how much you can find.

Most of the movie was filmed on the stars ranch, so yeah don't sweater the movie because of its budget, it wasn't made in Hollywood.

Why would you watch a cheap rehash?

There's really not much else to say. I'm sure someone's heart was in it but like...just make your own movie. This is unimaginative.

I'm sorry, but I did not like this movie at all and that is coming from a huge fan of Smokey and the Bandit fan and Trans Am enthusiast. It was pretty much a low-budget remake of Smokey and the Bandit, but different character names and different locations and setting. It didn't feel like a tribute at all, but more of a wannabe Bandit movie.

The Good: I will say the car stunts were decent, but should've been better filmed. Also there is a scene with Bandit and Buford impersonators which I felt was the closest this movie had to paying tribute and respect for the original.

The Bad: The Dodge Challenger was a bad choice as a blocker car as it should've been a Pontiac Trans Am to honor the original or a black and gold General Lee as a tribute to the TV show. You can't combine both cars and pass it off as a Bandit car. The Challenger used in the movie has a fake t-top roof that is filled with expanding foam, a bird on the hood, gold stripes and gold wheels. Basically a Dodge Challenger that likes to dress as a Pontiac Firebird which I feel is sacrilege. Its not even a real Hellcat like John states, but it is actually a V6 base model. The movie uses WAY TOO MUCH greenscreen which was off-putting and unrealistic. The movie was filmed very cheaply as if it was shot on a cell phone. The songs were not that good nor fun to listen to compared to the original which was fantastic. The acting was poor and much of the dialogue was lifted from the original, which is a shame since the original was mostly improvised. I'm surprised that Universal hasn't copyrighted this movie. If John was on the set, why not make a movie based on that event or a more original storyline that included a few references here and there to set it apart? Also if the budget was so low, why make the movie at all? There should have been a lot of heart, thought, and effort put into this to make it good and pay respect to Burt and Hal, but I feel that very little heart and effort was put into this and it should've been better handled.

Save your time and money and just go watch the original Smokey and the Bandit and the sequels. Way more fun to watch and that is the proper way to honor Burt Reynolds and Hal Needham. Hopefully Universal Studios will do a better job with their tv show in development.

John Schneider is a big kid at heart and it shows in this movie. How many of us would love to relive one of your favorite movies from your youth and star in it? He obviously didn't have the budget but he paid tribute to a classic the best he could. Sure the acting and editing were rough. But I didn't expect anything else. Thanks John and team for taking me back to my youth. I am actually in the process of obtaining and recreating a movie car from a different movie and now I want to make a tribute movie.

I was 16 years old when Smokey and the Bandit came out, so my best friend Brian and I know every line for every character. With that said, when I first found this movie while streaming, I thought it was a rip-off remake, which I would not watch. Then I researched it and saw it was a tribute movie and that John Schneider was actually an extra in the original. That got my attention and piqued my interest, so I watched it. I watched in the spirit in which it was made, not as a bad remake, but as a quirky tribute. I really wanted to like it, but I didn't. I only laughed twice.

Characters and Dialog: I found it amusing how they switched up the names and what they referenced, but the acting was horrible. The actors sounded like they were actors reading or just saying their lines from a script, not actual characters talking to each other. The way they portrayed the different personalities was wooden, and that was for everyone. I actually cringed when some of the lines were said, which really surprised me. The character of Sheriff Cletus T Necessary was the worst. If he was trying to emulate Jackie Gleason, it was an epic fail. I cringed at most of Sheriff Necessary's lines, sometimes yelling at the TV, "No," (as in 'Don't say that'). There were so many missed opportunities for greatness; great lines missed, omitted, or just flubbed. Burt Reynolds, Jerry Reed, and Jackie Gleason actually lived the words they said, we believed them and believed in them. The actors in this film just read their lines off of a dialog page and then repeated them in front of the camera.

Car Chases: The car chases and crashes didn't make any sense. There was the set-up shot, some mumble jumble in the middle, and then the end shot. Where the police car ended up (lake or pond, playing field, flatbed trailer, rolling down an embankment, etc) made no sense based upon where it had been in the previous shot. I am not going into specifics because those were covered by other reviewers, and I pretty much agree with everything they said. I can only add that I asked myself many times, "How did that happen?"

I think I would have walked out had I seen this in a movie theater, but since I watched it streaming at home, I powered through it, hoping it would get better, which it didn't. I gave it a 2 because it already had so many 1's and I gave it an extra point for effort. I applauded their effort, but not their execution.