The Dukes of Hazzard is the latest television show to make it to the big screen - with a few changes. Daisy is a blonde. Boss Hogg is thin. And Roscoe isn't a doufus. Well, at least they kept the theme song.

You know the story, the Duke cousins: Bo (Seann William Scott), Luke (Johnny Knoxville) and Daisy (Jessica Simpson) run a moonshine business with their Uncle Jesse (WIllie Nelson). Of course, the cousins are closer than dirt on a hog! But the "Meanest Man in Hazzard County", Georgia, County Commissioner Jefferson Davis 'Boss' Hogg is up to no good. He sets up the Dukes and confiscates their land, with a little help from Sherriff Roscoe Coltrane (M.C. Gainey) and his deputy Enos (Michael Weston). In fact, the boys uncover Boss Hogg's evil scheme to strip mine Hazzard county for coal. Of course, they have to put a stop to it, in a scheme that involves a NASCAR race, a trip to Atlanta and cousin Daisy dressed in next to nothing in a series of perfectly timed diversions.

If the plot sounds thin, that's because it is. There are only two reasons for seeing the Dukes of Hazzard: car chases in the General Lee and Jessica Simpson's skimpy outfits. And given way this film was promoted, the car chases aren't the movies biggest asset. If all you need to get you going is Jessica Simpson in short shorts or a bikini, then you'll get your money's worth, otherwise, there isn't much of a point.

In discussing the old series with my friend Khalid, we realized that although Georgia is the state with the fifth largest population of African-Americans, there were next to none in Hazzard county. I was curious to see if the movie did any better as far as blacks were concerned. I saw a black face in the crowd during a parade and an actual family of blacks at the audience at the NASCAR race. In an attempt to be politically correct, there is a sequence where the boys drive to Atlanta and various cars driving by voice their approval or their disdain at the confederate flag painted on the roof of the General Lee. The only other scene featuring African-Americans involved the boys running into a gang of street thugs who want to beat them down for the flag and appearing in blackface (don't ask...). Basically, the movie's one attempt at political correctness goes horribly wrong.

Unless you fantasize about jumping into Jessica Simpson's undercarriage, or jumping over bridges in a souped up Dodge Charger, take a pass on the Dukes. A visit to Hazzard county could be hazardous to your  movie-going health.