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'''''The Dukes of Hazzard''''' is a [[movie]] based on the [[United States|American]] television [[sitcom]], ''[[The Dukes of Hazzard]]''. Directed by [[Jay Chandrasekhar]] and released to movie theatres nationwide on [[August 5]] [[2005]], ''The Dukes of Hazzard'' depicts the adventures of cousins Bo, Luke, Daisy and their Uncle Jesse as they outfox crooked Hazzard County commissioner Boss Hogg and Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane.
The film was #1 at the box office its opening weekend, grossing $30.7 million on 3,785 screens — this despite being panned by most professional film critics (its Tomatometer rating at [[Rotten Tomatoes]] is an abysmal 18 percent). [[Roger Ebert]] gave the film one star, calling it a "lame-brained, outdated wheeze" and suggesting that [[Burt Reynolds]]' part in the film is "karma-wise... the second half of what "Smokey and the Bandit" was the first half of." [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050804/REVIEWS/50725002] The Washington Post's Desson Thomson saw it differently: "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] The movie disappointed many fans who expected a lot of car action. There was very little of it throughout the movie with the notable exception of three scenes in which General Lee goes up a ramp and goes flying into the air.
==Controversy==
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In an interview with [[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. The flag is a prominent part of the decoration of the "[[General Lee (car)|General Lee]]," the Dukes' signature car. The movie offers a playful rebuttal scene that voices both pro- and anti-Confederate rhetoric.
Many critics have said that the addition of the confederate flag on top of the car was extremely insensitive and unnecessary and did nothing to move the plot of the movie forward. In other words, removing the confederate flag from the car would not have effected the movie in any way whatsoever.
==Music==
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