YMMV / Strange Wilderness

• Critical Backlash: On its initial release it was absolutely savaged by critics, and ended up earning a rare 0% on Rotten Tomatoes. Its reception in subsequent years has been much more charitable, with many considering it to at least be better than a lot of Happy Madison's subsequent output, and some even going so far as to consider it a sorely underrated Cult Classic. If nothing else, it's attracted a few more outright positive reviews in the years since its original release (albeit only enough to push its Rotten Tomatoes rating up from 0% to 2%, which at least puts it above Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star and The Master of Disguise as the worst-reviewed Happy Madison film).
• Memetic Mutation: Jonah Hill flipping off the snake and saying "Fuck you, dude!" in Cooker's exaggerated trailer park accent.
  • The laugh during the shark scene is also very well known among World of Tanks fans, due to it having been used in multiple videos by the (former) World of Tanks YouTuber Slip Phantom.
• Stock Footage Failure: The movie includes multiple scenes of the characters attempting to record narration for wildlife footage... which is obviously decades too old to have actually been shot by the characters, even with their outdated equipment.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: One of the most frequent complaints about the movie is that Bigfoot only appears very briefly and is almost immediately killed off, wasting a lot of potential jokes involving him.