LOL!
But Burt is totally miscast as Boss Hogg. The late Sorrell Booke owned that role -- and he ought to have, as hard as he worked to get down a passable South Georgia accent (he was from Brooklyn). He was really great as Boss Hogg. A very solid comic actor.
Burt ought to be playing the boys' Cousin Curtis from over in Troup County. He ought to be driving a black Buick Grand National with a shaker hood. And if they need a new Boss, they ought to get Jerry Reed to come play him (Jerry can play some bad guys!), as the late Boss's lounge-lizardy nephew from Atmore, where he used to be a crooked prison guard before he got caught and pulled four years of his own, back when.
And whiny-ass Leftism or no, Cooter ought to be back with that same accent and the manner that spelled "God, that boy got left behind the door, didn't he?"
Two respected actors I really miss are Sorrell Booke (none better at the JD Hogg role) and Denver Pyle, the firm voice of wisdom and country smarts.
Sounds like Cooter/Jones is torqued they didn't contact him about the movie. I'd say he had the "goodbuddy" mechanic role down pretty good too.
I went to elementary school with Mr. Booke's nephew. It was JA Dever in Valley Stream, NY, NOT Hazzard Elementary (I never saw any children on the Dukes of Hazzard).
There's another VERY solid presence missing from the film, some really big boots that'll be mighty hard for a follow-on actor to fill. I don't reckon Gretchen Wilson could have got the job done, but it might have been entertaining to see her give it a good shot. Too bad it didn't work out that way, and too bad the original isn't around for a reprise of the role he made his own.
I'll miss him in particular.
