FREE: Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling

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An unusual quest reunites two best friends from high school and takes them deep into the Oregon woods, where they encounter whitewater rapids, nymph-like ecoterrorists, and crotch-biting animated squirrels. If you’ve heard of the first Without a Paddle, a modest comedy-adventure starring Seth Green, Matthew Lillard, and Dax Shepard, you may be surprised to learn it made enough money to inspire a sequel--but that’s the only explanation for the existence of Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling, which is sort of a reboot of the previous movie, but without any recognizable stars and even less of a script. Directed with the flair of a less-than-stellar sitcom, this sequel goes through the motions of adventure and romance, but the results are half-hearted at best. However, the boys are handsome--particularly Oliver James (What a Girl Wants, Raise Your Voice)--and the girls are pretty--particularly Madison Riley (who’s made brief but memorable appearances in movies like Miss March and Fired Up). Football all-star Jerry Rice has a cameo as a mountain man with a peculiar theory about global warming. There is a seven-minute featurette about the crotch-biting animated squirrels and some deleted scenes so brief they can't actually be called scenes. --Bret Fetzer