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a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

It's hard to believe that Smokey and the Bandit was the highest-grossing film behind Star Wars in 1977. This film is completely ridiculous, but it's also irresistibly fun. I tell you what, though, the 70s were a different time, man.

Anyone who doesn't get a kick out of this movie probably needs help. It's Burt Reynolds at his best - playing Burt Reynolds. It's Jackie Gleason. It's 1970s - CB radios, truckers, and a black Trans Am. It's fun, not at all serious.The Bandit (Burt) runs interference for Cletus Snow's (Jerry Reed) 18-wheeler who - on a bet with Big Enos (Pat McCormick) and his sidekick son Little Enos (Paul Williams) - go from Georgia to Texas to pick up 400 cases of Coors, which at the time wasn't sold in the east and was therefore illegal, and bring it back in record time. They get to Texas and get the beer, and on the way back the fun begins. Bandit is stopped in the road by a runaway bride (Sally Field) who gets in the Trans Am and she and the Bandit are then pursued - hot pursuit - by Smokey (CB radio slang for cop), Sheriff Buford T. Justice (the one and only Jackie Gleason), and his dimwit son, Junior (Mike Henry), who is the groom left at the altar. The Bandit, with the runaway bride, and Cletus have many adventures on the return trip, escaping the sheriff and Junior who are in hot pursuit all the way to Georgia in an incrementally damaged patrol car.I am confident that this movie got little critical acclaim and that it probably won no awards because it simply cannot be taken seriously.The editors who censored the movie for TV did a horrible job. Make sure you see the unedited version.

to watch Hal Needham's festival of redneck stupidery, Smokey and the Bandit. SATB was he second highest grossing movie in 1977, only topped by Star Wars, and it's easy to see why the movie is so popular--it's simply too fun for words. Anyone who doesn't chuckle at this idiot- fest of hillbilly stunt-drivin' needs to mix a stool softener with a nice cold Coors.Way back when, you couldn't buy Coors in big chunks of the United States. Why, I don't know, nor do I care. I had an administrator tell me about his financing his higher education at the University of Montana by driving down to Wyoming on Friday nights, loading up the old wagon, then booking it back to Missoula to sell the cases of Coors in the dorm parking lot. It went fast, but I can't see the Bandit driving a mid-fifties station wagon.The administrator told me that the movie touched him deeply, and then he laughed at his own good luck (never got stuck in bad weather and never got busted!).Smokey and the Bandit, itself, is a really stupid movie, with forced humor, cartoonish characters, utterly unbelievable stunts, and Sally Field looking very, very good. If you can forgive the dumbosity of this vehicular game of beer-pong, I guarantee you'll suspend disbelief-- and your common sense--and you'll wonder how much an old Trans Am goes for these days.A Coors Light sounds really good right now.

I remember first watching this movie as a kid with my father. What's not to love? Action, comedy, and romance. Best of all, fast cars. I had never really seen the appeal of Burt Reynolds until I recently re-watched this film recently. I can definitely see why people loved him. It definitely is one of my biggest guilty pleasures.Gleason's portrayal of Sheriff Bufford T. Justice is brilliant. He has some of the best lines in the whole movie. Sally Fields makes a great run away bride. I love it when a movie comes together with a great comedy and doesn't take themselves too serious. A great guilty pleasure in life. Don't miss it.