Movie Review: Fishing With John

On most fishing programs the hosts catch fish, but this is no regular fishing program! This one stars independent film and musician John Lurie.

John Lurie knows absolutely nothing about fishing, but that doesn’t stop him from undertaking the adventure of a lifetime on Fishing With John.

Traveling with his special guests to the most exotic and dangerous places on earth, John Lurie battles sharks with Jim Jarmusch off the tip of Long Island, goes ice fishing with Willem Dafoe at Maine’s northernmost point, braves the Costa Rican jungle with Matt Dillon, takes Tom Waits to Jamaica, and searches for the elusive giant squid with Dennis Hopper in Thailand.

This DVD collection of the entire series created for the Independent Film channel is Narrated by Robb Webb and watches like a combination between those terrible fishing programs on PBS and the audio slide shows you watched in grade school....only those never included Tom Waits dropping live fish in his pants or Jim Jarmusch questioning the morality of shark fishing with a handgun.

A must see for fishing fans who enjoy intelligent, subtle of humor! Does anyone actually catch any thing? I won't spoil the surprise.