jacobjohntaylor1
This is what people think is a good movie. The story line is awful. It is a comedy write. There nothing funny about this movie. It is not 6.9 it is a 4. There are good actors in this movie I just do not know why there were. They were just wasting there time. Do not see this movie. I am warning you. You don't want to see this movie. Not if you what to see something funny. You will just be wasting your time. If you do not lesion to me a believe everyone else you will regret it. This is a very big waste of money and life is to short.
boure1952
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.
disdressed12
I quite enjoyed this movie.it was entertaining and funny. The acting was good. Sally Field and Jackie Gleason were stand outs in my opinion, although Burt Reynolds and Jerry Reed were also good. The plot was kinda silly but in a good way. The film is not trying to be something more than it is.it knows it's silly. Would I watch again? I sure would. in fact I have watched it several times, and I found I enjoyed it as much each time.as long as you don't take I too seriously going in and you know what you're for, you might enjoy the film. There's not much more that I can say,other than take a chance. You might be surprised. for me, Smokey and the Bandit is an 8/10
Fluke_Skywalker
Plot; Two drivers agree to bootleg a load of beer 1,800 miles in 28 hours only to find their mission complicated by a runaway bride and a fiercely determined sheriff who happens to be her would-be father in law.Released during the late 70s CB radio craze here in the States, 'Smokey and the Bandit' would be easy to write off as a disposable byproduct of that short-lived fad, but that would be unfair. It ain't exactly high art to be sure, but it is a skillfully directed bit of automotive ballet enhanced greatly by charming and energetic performances from its leads. Burt Reynolds was the biggest box office star in America at the time, and it's easy to see why. He's got an innate likability and an effortless charm that never seems forced. On top of being impossibly cute, Sally Field is Reynolds' equal in every measure, and the two share a wonderful chemistry. Joined by singer Jerry Reed (who delivers what may be the best performance of the lot), they form as likable a trio of heroes as you're ever going to meet. But a hero is only as good as his villain, and the Bandit has a doozy in the form of Sheriff Buford T. Justice. Thanks largely to a tour de force performance from the legendary Jackie Gleason, Justice steals every scene he's in and makes for a great comic foil for our heroes.Fun, fast-paced and good-natured, 'Smokey and the Bandit' is the proto Fast and Furious that easily hangs with and often exceeds its sleek 21st century progeny.
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