Delta Farce (2007)
Average Rating: 2.6/10
Reviews Counted: 44
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 42
Too afraid to be a real satire of the Iraq War, Delta Farce instead devolves into a reprehensible, unfunny mix of slapstick, gay panic, and flatulence jokes.
Average Rating: 3/10
Critic Reviews: 14
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 13
Too afraid to be a real satire of the Iraq War, Delta Farce instead devolves into a reprehensible, unfunny mix of slapstick, gay panic, and flatulence jokes.
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Movie Info
When a hard-luck blue-collar worker and his two best friends are mistaken for Army Reservists by a tough-talking Army sergeant, the plane set to fly them to the front lines of Iraq mistakenly drops them in the middle of Mexico to disastrous results in a freewheeling military comedy starring Larry the Cable Guy, Bill Engvall, and D.J. Qualls. Larry (the Cable Guy) has lost his job and his woman in the short span of 24 hours. Convinced that some suds and target shooting are just the right remedies
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Cast
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Larry The Cable Guy
Larry -
Bill Engvall
Bill Little -
D.J. Qualls
Everett Shackle -
Danny Trejo
Carlos Santana -
Marisol Nichols
Maria Garcia -
Keith David
Sgt. Kilgore -
Glenn Morshower
General -
Ed O'Ross
Victor -
Lisa Lampanelli
Bill's Wife Connie -
Christina Moore
Karen -
Michael Edward Rose
Sgt. Major -
Lorna Scott
Woman at Cowboy Fran... -
Parker Goris
Bill's Boy -
Michael Papajohn
Bill'e Neighbor -
Lance Smith
Sgt. Adams -
Bill Doyle
Colonel -
McKinley Freeman
Airborne Soldier -
Joel McKinnon Miller
Pilot -
Chris Spencer
Co-Pilot -
Alejandro Patino
Juan -
Luis Chavez
Carlos -
David Desantos
Bandito #3 Ricardo -
Nicholas Guilak
Luis -
Toby Holguin
Bandito #1 -
Jimmy Ortega
Bandito #2 -
Albert P. Santos
Flaco -
Emilio Rivera
Jorge -
Shelly Desai
Farmer -
Tony Perez
Mayor -
Danielle Hartnett
Senorita Magdalena -
Carlos Moreno Jr.
Jaime -
Jeff Dunham
Amazing Ken -
Rolando Molina
Bartender -
Joseph A. Nuñez
Ruben -
Estaban Cueto
El Javelina -
Tom Rosales
Bandito Guard -
Craig Susser
Roger Grabowski -
PJ Walsh
Medic -
Matt Riedy
Colonel Dalton -
Amy Powell
Anchorwoman
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All Critics (44) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (42) | DVD (7)
If ribbing the U.S. armed forces was considered unpatriotic after 9/11, then Delta Farce proves that discussion of the Iraq War has now officially jumped the shark.
Top CriticHere's a sobering thought: If every war gets the comedy it deserves, could Delta Farce, a strenuously unfunny Three Amigos knockoff, be our M*A*S*H?
A mindless comedy where the blatant racial stereotypes are outnumbered only by the flatulence jokes.
With Delta Farce, his second movie vehicle, the Southern-fried comedian Larry the Cable Guy takes ever greater risks to advance his career.
There are henpecked-husband jokes, gay jokes, turd humor, mispronounced Iraq war terms, guys asking "Who farted?" and lots more Crackel Barrel comedy.
This is a movie where the villains are the comic relief for the comedians, and where the outtakes at the end are better than the film.
Dropping quietly into theaters like a sneak attack on brain cells and good taste, C.B. Harding's rickety vehicle for Blue Collar Comedy is among the first films to mine the endless War on Terror for laughs.
What it really boils down to is whether you're a fan of Larry the Cable Guy. If so, you'll (I would hope) realize you're watching a pretty stupid comedy but will laugh in the appropriate parts.
Whatever your pet sensitivity -- the military, rednecks, gays, Mexicans -- this movie is an equal-opportunity denigrator.
War in Iraq isn't funny -- neither is this movie.
Larry the Cable Guy is not and has never been and never will be funny. The sooner everyone realizes this, the faster his movie career with go away.
The only farcical aspect of it is that it was greenlit in the first place.
It's OK to write comedies about morons%u2026as long as you don't insult the intelligence of the audience in the script.
Is it funny? Not really. All of its subversive potential is wasted on [director] Harding, and even the straight-ahead farce is joyless.
...a surefire reassurance that war is indeed hell...another prime example of ingenuity involving a box of crayons and someone's desperate idea for quick-witted lunacy.
A romantic flicker between the dumpy Larry and a pretty local senorita defies all logic -- even in a movie this illogical.
I can honestly say that I didn't laugh once
Perhaps best enjoyed by persons who have been lobotomized. After the first 30 minutes (I'm being generous), you may well feel like you have been.
As morale boosters go, Larry the Cable Guy is no Bob Hope, and it's hard to reconcile the contradiction of an overtly tasteless movie that doesn't want to offend the troops.
Like Paths Of Glory, Apocalypse Now, and Platoon, Delta Farce is a difficult, harrowing work offering little relief or humor. Unlike those movies, though, Delta Farce is supposed to be funny.
Lord, I apologize, but Larry the Cable Guy just can't seem to get 'er done in a feature film.
Larry the Cable Guy makes the men and women of the armed forces wait until the tail-end of his Iraq war comedy, Delta Farce, to learn that the movie is dedicated to them. Haven't they been through enough?
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