Wow. 'Dukes of Hazzard' sucks and the AP's peeved they aren't getting to review it

Here's a note the Associated Press sent out. Check out the wording:

We will not have a film review of “The Dukes of Hazzard.” To suppress critical coverage, the studio prevented critics from seeing the movie in time for AP to write our review.

The AP

Usually, they just say, "Such-and-such movie was not available to review."

I wonder if this was written by some young editor who rode a "Dukes of Hazzard" Big Wheel down his sloping front yard, carving with his stops a doughnut groove into the area in front of the stone wall at the bottom of the hill, and so feels betrayed by the studio's choice.
Damn, it's gonna be bad.
But it's the casting that confuses me. Not Seann William Scott and Johnny Knoxville, who are funny and seem to have real personalities and you can see how they'd mesh well as Bo and Luke Duke. Willie Nelson has a great personality too, and seems perfectly cast as Uncle Jesse. Plus he's a rebel. And even Burt Reynolds has shown that he has the edge and williness to overplay Boss Hogg.
No, what confuses me is the casting of Jessica Simpson. Sure, she has a personality, but not much of one beyond being her Svengali father's Barbie.
I mean, she playacts at being dumber than she is, but she's not even smart enough to play dumb well.