A film was #1 at a pack professional its opening weekend, grossing $30.7 milliin on 3,785 screens — this despite existence panned by virtually all agency film critics (its Tomatometer rating at Rotten Tomatoes is an abysmal 18 percent). Roger Ebert gave the film the single star, calling it a "lame-brained, outdated wheeze" & suggesting that Burt Reynolds' part in the film is "karma-wise... the second half of what "Smokey & a Brigand" was the first half of." [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050804/REVIEWS/50725002] A Wash. Post's Desson Thomson saw it other than: "This is one unusual case in which aiming for a middling C grade turns out to be A-plus work." [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/04/AR2005080400672.html] A moving picture disappointed numerous fans world health organization required very much of car action. There was super little of it throughout a film by owning a notable exception of threesome scenes where General Lee goes higher a ramp & goes flying into the air.

Controversy
Ben Jones, who played River cooter in a original series, declared in his internet site that once he scan the script it experienced intimate content non present in the original series.[http://www.cootersplace.com/news_movie.asp] He known as for the boycott of the picture "[u]nless they clean it up before the August 5th release date[.]" the film got a super heavy opening weekend withal, sustaining an adjusted-dollar rank of #14 100%-instance for August releases.[http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/weekends/month/?mo=08]

Within an locate using Stephen Colbert on The Daily Show, Lonnie Randolph Jr., president of the South Carolina NAACP, criticized the film for displaying the Confederate flag, a symbol which he considers to be racist. A flag occurs as large a portion of the decoration of the "General Lee," the Dukes' signature car. the motion picture offers a playful rebuttal scene that voices each pro- & anti-Confederate rhetoric.

Music
A film's soundtrack is anchored by Jessica Simpson's remake of the Nancy Sinatra classic, "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'". the song became a hit in the U.S., peaking at #14 on the Billboard Hot 100. A provocative music videos includes Willie Nelson.

Credited cast
Johnny Knoxville as Luke Duke Seann William Scott as Bo Duke Jessica Simpson as Daisy Duke Burt Reynolds as Boss Hogg Willie Nelson as Uncle Jesse David Koechner as Cooter Davenport M.C. Gainey as Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane Michael Weston as Deputy Sheriff Enos Strate Lynda Carter as Pauline Kevin Heffernan as Sheev all 5 Broken Lizard troupe members make an appearance.