earnest effort which achieve some success to adapt the classic odyssey story to a 30 nostalgia period piece . the adventurer this time be escape convict and wander about the depression afflict south bungle their way into trouble . the great strength of the film be the wonderful music soundtrack and effectively evoke not only the era that this be set in and but the spiritual reference that run rampant in the film . besides it value to the tone of the movie and the music be just plain fun to listen to . what cripple the film be that the character really aren not that likable . in a comedy and you need that element in order to have fun along with them in their misadventure . instead and we have a bunch of selfish and arrogant and soulless and mean spirited nobody who really have no positive point at all . theyre not impose enough to make you hate them either and so it hard to relate to them at all . theyre offer up a clown and but like people who put clown makeup on and march in parade and they just aren not funny . like the story that inspire it and the movie take these guy on an odyssey and encounter a variety of symbolic ( some even mystical ) character . everybody be stamp with offensive stereotype and the operative word be stupid . people be mock right and left and and consequently and no one be leave be particularly interest or appeal . the movie doesn not like it own character and and it doesn not let you like them and either . riverside baptism and beautiful siren and steal car and fistfight and radio preacher and people be whip with stick while all be throw at you in disjoint fashion . some evoke a few laugh and others confuse or bore you . i do laugh when a nerdy guy beat the snot out of an especially obnoxious lead character . but there be a lot more pointlessly gratuitous scene while an example represent some 30 dillinger type guy strafe cow with a tommy gun . comedy . symbolism . no while just mindless violence and which detract from the intellectual nature of the original source material this story draw upon . other adaptation of the odyssey be much good . unless youre a george clooney fan and rent something else . but buy the soundtrack cd while the music be great .