smokey and the bandit wasn not exactly shakespeare and but then nobody want it to be . it be lowdown slapstick and but it do have brain . it have a very smart script with definable character and a fun wrap up . people come out of the theater smile . hooper provide none of this . there be no reason to smile . if it suppose to be a tribute to the hollywood stuntman and it make them look awfully lazy by provide nothing but badly choreograph fight scene and one of the most unconvincing car jump i have ever see . it all look phony and badly film almost on purpose . poor sally field ( a the girlfriend who wring her hand on the sideline ) be give her weak role and with not a single funny or smart line ( if you do that jump and i would not be here when you get back ) . burt reynolds keep look at the camera and winking and but the joke be on any audience who sit through hooper . from .