Smokey and the Hotwire Gang

1979 "It's Heavy Truckin', Hard Drivin', and Free Lovin'!"
3.3| 1h25m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 04 May 1979 Released
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Some CB Outlaws attempt to rob an armored car.

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Action, Comedy

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Anthony Cardoza

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Smokey and the Hotwire Gang Audience Reviews

Karry Best movie of this year hands down!
Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.
Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
ridgerunner72160-609-362419 This has to be one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I bought it because it has Alvy Moore, Mr. Kimball from Green Acres, in it. And of course I liked the fact that it has women running around in Daisy Duke shorts in some of the scenes. But that doesn't account for the fact that the movie has no plot whatsoever. It's just a bunch of characters driving around with no rhyme or reason whatsoever. I thought about bringing this movie to a pawn shop to get a few cents for it, but it's so incredibly lousy that I think I'll keep it instead.
Wizard-8 I remember I kept seeing this movie at my favorite video rental store as a teenager, but something about it suggested it was a real stinker, so I never rented it. But a few days ago, I got the DVD of the movie as a birthday present, so I thought I might as well watch it - it was free after all. It didn't take long into watching the movie to realize my instincts all those years ago were correct. This is a bad, bad, BAD movie! There is almost no plot, and what little plot there is is made to be utterly confusing with the movie's penchant for cutting back and forth to a huge number of characters. Speaking of the characters, the level of acting is extremely amateurish, even by the one so-called name actor of the entire cast (James Keach). When it comes to vehicular action, the movie is dead in the water - there are almost no chases or stunts, and the little there is has been staged with no passion at all. And while the movie is advertised as a comedy, the only laugh I got was during the closing credits, which list a huge number of people who worked on the movie with the last name "Cardoza" - the same last name of the director and the producer. I wouldn't be surprised if the Cardoza family does not bring up this movie during family reunions.
Woodyanders Here's a perfectly brainless, senseless, shiftless, witless, virtually plot less and basically pointless 70's drive-in car chase comedy time capsule relic that's ripe to bursting with all the right rotten stuff so it can measure up as a fine bit of lobotomized "we're all just having a little fun" dippy entertainment. We've got Stacy Keach's forever trapped in a B-movie grind brother James and no-name numbskull Stanley Livingston as a pair of nitwit drifters who bumble, fumble and stumble their aimless way throughout the entire picture. Then there's groovy disco music and even groovier disco dancing. Moreover, for your viewing pleasure there's lots of good-looking gals in tight cut-off shirts and hot pants. The hilariously dated CB lingo makes for mighty funny listening (my favorite lines are "We're going 10-7" and the often repeated "See you in a short-short"). "Green Acres" TV series regular Alvy Moore portrays a feckless hillbilly sheriff. Familiar 70's exploitation feature face Albert ("The Hard Ride," "Sweet Sugar") Cole appears as a greasy hood. Funky wah-wah guitar riffs rip away on the soundtrack. Two mellow dudes who sell grass for a living figure as secondary characters.But that's not all. There's more. A 70's feminist strong-minded chicks pushing around wimpy-willed dudes subtext ala "Truck Stop Women" gets clumsily tossed into the ramshackle brew. An armored car robbery occurs in such a quick and cursory manner that it seems tacked on as an afterthought. An endless "running around in circles" search for a stolen van owned by blustery Kustom Kar King George Barris takes center stage as the key piece of the action. A sub-Mickey Rooney raspy-voiced speed demon middle-aged guy who helps the sheriff by driving him willy-nilly all over the county and a rascally midget provide comic relief. Busty brunette Carla Ziegfeld fills out her role in more ways than one as "Hotwire," a nasty wench socialite who runs a combo drug, stolen car and prostitution ring. Hey, what's missing? Oh yeah -- a story. Well, there ain't one. Instead, director Anthony Cardoza and screenwriter T. Gary Cardoza allow the sloppy, digressive, permanently stuck in park free-form narrative to grind its wheels into the ground in a strangely amiable and hence oddly enjoyable fashion.
DoubleWhitey It was my friend Mike Lamb's 11th birthday, in 1980. How bad does it have to be for 6th graders to walk out on it? This movie has yet to get the five votes to have the rating listed, but if it does, I can bet that the 4 votes will be from the kids we were hanging out with, because we are the only people who will ever remember this thing.