Beautiful, lovely, yet also fun and modern, I really loved her and her character.

Sally Field, though, steals the show in terms of the acting as she’s immensely endearing here. Some of their interactions are so cute and amusing.īurt Reynolds was so well cast here and he plays such a stereotypical redneck character, but who’s still very charismatic and always fun. It’s actually pretty much a romance film as well as an action comedy because it heavily relies on the relationship between Bandit and Frog and they’re so wonderful together that I was quite invested in their relationship and I loved every second of it. The charm is infectious and the movie is surprisingly strong as a romance too.

The action is very well executed and the car wrecks are overly abundant, but quite funny too. But as I said above, its energy could not be denied. The movie is frankly stupid, thematically empty and also very much a product of its time. Its plot is nothing to write home about and almost non-existent. Yet, despite the fact that I really dislike all of the aforementioned descriptors, I still ended up really enjoying this famous early blockbuster simply because it’s so undeniably charming and somehow hugely entertaining. It features countless car chases and car wrecks. It’s such an infectiously fun, inherently charming flick. Smokey and the Bandit is a 1977 action comedy film directed by Hal Needham and starring Burt Reynolds and Sally Field.

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