The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!

The plot and surviving cast were great here as we see the Duke Family and the lawmen in fine action again, this time to try to deal with a crooked developer and her cohorts. A nice capstone to an old fun family friendly series with an admittedly complex legacy.

Certainly, compared to the unrelated R-rated later day movies of the newer casts, both Reunion TV movies of the surviving original cast mates are raw gems of decency!

I bought and watched this on Prime Video.

Prime Video has Reunion (1997) and Vudu has Hazzard In Hollywood (2000), each are $10.

They managed to make most of this feel like the original show, just with older people.

The adventure part of the story more or less works.

Emily Proctor (West Wing, CSI Miami) plays a mechanic in this.

Action/Fight star Cynthia Rothrock is a fighter in this and also best friends with Daisy Duke.

This was a good time.

Ah, such sweet memories. The squeal of tyres on mud (!), the gratuitous bums in tight shorts shots, the sped up action sequences and Daisy Duke (looking a little less fantastic than I remember, but still a fine lookin' woman) - does it get any better? Well, it might've been had Boss Hogg still been with us. :( Damned funny watching them all run around, a little pudgy and wrinkly but, rest-assured, it's still full of the good old fashioned Duke over-acting complete with woeful plot. :) Dem Good Ol' Duke Boys haven't changed much; I swear Bo is still wearing the same jeans he wore back in '77. So, if y'all get a chance to watch this reunion, git on down to the Boar's Nest, sink a couple of brews and let out an old "Yeee Ha!" for old times sake. But drive home safe, ya hear!

The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion! was a movie long in waiting. It was nice to see the Duke boys and the General Lee back in action. If you like the show, you would definitely like the movie. The old "save the farm" technique was used, but that is what all fans of the show are accustomed to. Even though Sorrell Booke, aka Boss Hogg, has passed, they did a lovely job of incorporating his memory into the movie. My only problem was with the slight prop imperfections, but what do you expect. Hopefully another movie is in the works, even though Denver Pyle, Uncle Jesse, is also no longer with us. I'm gone.

Tom Wopat and John Schneider revive their 80's characters as, once again, the "Good Ol' Boys" rise up against corruption in the South, this time in the form of a businesswoman (Stevens), with the help of some friends from the old series.

You know, I grew up in the Dukes' era, and I was mildly surprised at how good of a job director Lewis Teague did with this film. I know that the original series has some corny plots by what we see nowadays, but, for those of us who grew up in that time, there wasn't one of us alive who enjoyed the original series without picturing themselves behind the wheel of the General Lee. (I had to mention the car - after all, it was the car(s) that made the jump, not those boys.) A little older, perhaps, but the actors walked in and picked up on their original characters like they've been doing them for the last twenty years.