Smokey and the Bandit

While the joke wears thin very quickly, there are a number of amusing sequences, which are combined with some exciting road action to provide a mildly entertaining - and totally mindless - film.

There is a parade of roadside set pieces involving many different ways to crash cars.

Despite a thin premise for an action-comedy road chase, the film's enthusiasm makes up for its lack of ideas.

This is a movie for audiences capable of slavering over a Pontiac Trans Am, 18-wheel tractor-trailer rigs, dismembered police cruisers and motorcycles.

The king of the 'good ol' boy' movies.

For me at least, the world of "Smokey" is stranger than the outer space of Star Wars... "Smokey" may be faintly memorable as the absolute pit of Jackie Gleason's career.

What Jackie Gleason does in this film, not even the Deil would pardon. [Full review in Spanish]

One of the best pictures of its kind. Forget how sophisticated you are for 97 minutes and enjoy it.

Movies like this never get made these days. No, not because of political correctness or wokeness or any of that nonsense. It’s more because it’s the type of movie that was so specifically tuned into its specific time and place. (45th anniversary)

The Burt Reynolds formula -- the good ol' boy armed only with a quick quip and boyish grin -- goes afoul in Smokey and the Bandit despite the engaging presence of Sally Field.