OK, this recycling thing has gotten way out of hand. Paper and aluminum products are one thing, but rehashing old movie ideas isn't going to help the environment in any way.
Someone please explain this to the creators of "Meet the Deedles," a totally "lame-o," "bogus" comedy that borrows heavily from the movie misadventures of Bill and Ted (1989's "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" and 1991's "Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey," for those lucky enough to have forgotten).
Those films are nearly a decade old, but this dumbbell attempt at screwball comedy is so bad it makes them look hilarious by comparison. Well, that could be a slight exaggeration, but "Meet the Deedles" is at least as bad as the other recent Disney live-action comedies "RocketMan" and "Mr. Magoo."
(In other words, this supposedly kids' film has more vulgar flatulence and bodily function jokes than a PG-rated movie should have.)
The clueless and charmless heroes of the movie are Phil and Stew Deedle (Paul Walker and Steve Van Wormer, respectively), surfer-dude twins who are perilously close to being disinherited by their millionaire father (Eric Braeden).
To get them to shape up, he sends the twins to a Wyoming wilderness survival camp. But they get lost on the way and are mistaken for a pair of naturalist park ranger recruits expected at Yellowstone National Park.
Surprisingly, they thrive in the remote environment, until Frank Slater (Dennis Hopper), a vengeful former park ranger, hatches his plan to "kill" the Old Faithful geyser and create his own amusement park/tourist trap nearby.
At times Hopper looks embarrassed to be on screen, and who can blame him? When director Steve Boyum isn't stooping to toilet humor for laughs, he's crashing vehicles over cliffs - with equally unsuccessful results.
It should be mentioned that many of the Yellowstone scenes were shot in Park City, and local animal performer Bart the Bear shows up briefly.
"Meet the Deedles" is rated PG for a slew of vulgar jokes, slapstick violence, glimpses of women in revealing swimsuits and a brief sex scene (providing a dumb sight gag).