LOS ANGELES - Considering its source — the filmmaker behind the atrocious Adam Sandler flicks "Little Nicky" and "Mr. Deeds" — the backcountry comedy "Without a Paddle" is comparatively tolerable.

Ten years after graduating from high school, three friends, Jerry (Matthew Lillard), Dan (Seth Green) and Tom (Dax Shepard) learn that their childhood friend, Billy (Antony Starr), died in a ...

Considering its source -- the filmmaker behind the atrocious Adam Sandler flicks "Little Nicky" and "Mr. Deeds" -- the backcountry comedy "Without a Paddle" is comparatively tolerable. Though short on ...

Ten years after graduating from high school, three friends, Jerry (Matthew Lillard), Dan (Seth Green) and Tom (Dax Shepard) learn that their childhood friend, Billy (Antony Starr), died in a ...

There's a scene near the end of Without a Paddle, a successfully infantile new spin on Deliverance, that involves a pair of plump survivalist pot farmers and a half-naked nebbish. As it happens, the ...