Fishing Naked
Fishing Naked
| 08 May 2015 (USA)
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Fishing Naked is a comedy. It is a film about four young adults being bad in the woods. They pull Bigfoot hoaxes, scare tourists, disrespect their elders, hook up and smoke dope. That is until they realize there is an alien creature they have inadvertently put in harms way with all the attention they have been attracting to their rural mountain community. As their relationships fray, they hatch a half-baked plot to pull the biggest hoax yet to right their wrongs by deliberately getting caught in the act.

Reviews
Libramedi Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant
Crwthod A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.
AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.
Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
Michael Ledo The title is a clever teaser. It is a head fake, as was much of the film, by design. Amy (Elyse Levesque) fishes topless. Tinsel Korey keeps her clothes on.David (Bronson Pelletier) and Rodney (Evan Williams) fish in the American NW. David is lives with his Native American grandmother (Elaine Miles) who sees green light orbs. As a hobby, the guys don a Big Foot costume and scare tourist, but also attracts media attention and that of the Feds. In the woods, they meet Amy and Jen who join them in their antics.If there is anything as a "B" indie film, this would be it. This is an indie style film, not really aimed at an indie audience. The film attempts to be funny, but has a hard time generating smiles.Guide: Implied sex. Distant nudity with long red hair covering vitals. F-bombs (more than a 3 maximum PG-13 film, but not excessive)
thesar-2 Fishing "Naked" strongly deserves only one star for the most misleading title in movie history. Much like a YouTube title like "Naked Coed Chicks Gone Wild" but is only about a group of ugly puppies playing in mud, this movie uses the same trick just to get hits.IF NOT for some actually and hugely surprisingly good moments of acting from the main cast, namely the grandma, her grandson, the sheriff and the two wandering graduate girls, this movie would be a complete waste. Maybe they were using this barely above a film school dropout's independent low-budget "comedy" as an audition tape because no matter how many things went wrong, there were certain talent in the cast.I'd like to say I don't know where to begin, but I already did with the film's title. Beyond that, it's a hodgepodge of cheap special effects, story lines that sort of begin and abruptly get lost, mood swings and shifts that make no sense to the world created, jokes that don't work and the most unrealistic ideas of trickery that even a two-year-old would scoff at. To describe the plot is hard, but mostly it's about two idiots who stumble upon two sorta-hippie chicks and they combine ideas to hoax tourist. Oh, and there's tons of fishing, kinda aliens, old orb obstacles and "hairy" men? Actually, the loosely-termed script throws in many more subplots that sounded more like ideas from the brainstorming that somehow made it to the filming stage.Getting back to the title, there is about 30 seconds of the staggering and over-long 98 minutes devoted to the title and even that's PG nudity. A Disney cartoon would have more and I've seen way worse on regular TV. Again, it's just a trick to get people to notice this film. The movie was so incredibly hard to get through, and that's too bad. I wanted more from what the cast had to offer. If only the director/writer(s) wouldn't have always butted in with incredibly horrific ideas. Totally skip this "feature."***Final thoughts: Annnnnd, the trick worked on me. Haha. Yep, I spent half the movie for at very least, the lead, David to take off his clothes as he was cute, but by the half-way mark, I realized it was a ploy and I always vow I cannot write a review on a movie I didn't see all the way through as that's unfair to what could do a 180 and get better by the finale. Well, this didn't. The joke was on me, I took, ah-hem, the bait and that's probably why I'm so upset at this awful experience. At least I did finish it and can tell (demand) others not to make the same mistake I did.
Henry Jones I have never seen a movie with this spread in the reviews so I watched it for that reason. No, it's not a 10 but a pretty solid 8 especially for an Independent film. Nor have I seen many reviews as colorful as this guy Carl wrote earlier. I've got to admit I was almost more excited to see a movie as bad as he said this was as I was to watch a good movie. You know how sometimes a movie is so bad it is really entertaining? This wasn't it. All I can figure is the guy must not have gotten one of the parts, really hates someone associated with the film or is a complete pervert looking for more private time material and was disappointed. So here's the spoiler alert: No one in the film is ever shown naked, sorry Carl, plenty more on the inter web. Actually, I was a bit sorry because the two lead actresses are really hot. This was a pretty good movie. I had a much better time watching it than I thought I would. Kind of a chick flick but still enjoyable for those of us of the XY persuasion. But if you are looking for something to make those palms rosey, pass.
Janet Laylor To start, don't expect nudity in this movie. It's a running joke. Not that 2 of the female leads aren't pretty, but that's the norm for many movies of this ilk. What sets this apart is some native American authenticity which somewhat plays into the plot, but the writing is so poor and the dialog so stilted as to lose that part of the plot. animation/CGI is a joke but to be expected for this budget.The two secondary Native American actors, the 'grandma' and 'police chief' are by far the most naturally funny (and with the best lines) that i honestly can say i laughed or chuckled at - and i tend to be a bit jaded. The FBI agents, the corporate guy, the pseudo photographer are painful and one-dimensional stereotypes, which help make this a grade C film.Sadly, it has possibilities. I wish the writer/director/editor had managed to find someone to double check their script and give the actors better lines. It's hard to tell if the acting was just poor or the script just made them look bad.All that said, I did not stop watching. I even enjoyed parts of it but suffered a bit from high expectations. Read this review, and a few of the other negative ones and then watch it. You might be surprised to also give it a "C". In summation, fun idea, a few good actors, a lot of bad actors, terrible script, cheap CGI, nice location, some authenticism.