A knuckleheaded but amiable summer trifle.

Burt Reynolds used to make movies about people's lifestyles. Now he seems more interested in making movies that fit in with his own lifestyle.

It's a witless retread of the earlier, far funnier road-movie collaborations of Mr. Needham and Mr. Reynolds.

…even those of us who can find some merit in the most excessively preening, self-regarding films of Burt Reynolds will firmly draw the line at Stroker Ace…there’s a dozen good reasons you can’t see Stroker Ace anywhere….