Editing Without a Paddle (section)

===Critical response===
On [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film has an approval rating of 15% based on 124 reviews, with an average rating of 3.9/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "''Without a Paddle'' has a few laughs, but not enough to sustain its running time."<ref>{{cite web |title = Without A Paddle (2004) |url = http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/without_a_paddle/ |website= [[Rotten Tomatoes]] |access-date = March 11, 2025}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film has a weighted average score of 29 out of 100 based on 27 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".<ref>{{cite web |title= Without a Paddle |url= https://www.metacritic.com/movie/without-a-paddle |website= [[Metacritic]] |access-date = February 1, 2020 }}</ref> Audiences surveyed by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |title= Without a Paddle (2004) B+ |work= [[CinemaScore]] |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181220122629/https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |archive-date= December 20, 2018 }}</ref>

Dennis Harvey of ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' called it "an unstable—if mostly painless—mix of low comedy, stabs at higher silliness, and schmaltz."<ref>{{cite web |date= August 15, 2004 |last= Harvey |first= Dennis |title= Without a Paddle |url= https://variety.com/review/VE1117924609 |website= [[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] }}</ref>

''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''{{'}}s Scott Brown was more positive and wrote: "There are some genuinely clever moments of physical comedy, and the inevitable crudeness is offset by winning whimsy. Without has all the freshness of moldering Playboys stashed under a mattress, but it evokes what few boys-will-be-boys larks can: chumminess."<ref>{{cite magazine |title= Without a Paddle |last=Brown |first=Scott |url= https://ew.com/article/2004/08/25/without-paddle/ |date=August 25, 2004|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] }}</ref>