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Delta Farce

Delta Farce (2007)

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5

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.

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Average Rating: 3.1/10
Critic Reviews: 12
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 11

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

PG-13, 1 hr. 29 min.

Action & Adventure, Comedy

Bear Aderhold, Tom Sullivan

Sep 4, 2007

$8.1M

Lions Gate Films

Cast

All Critics (44) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (45) | DVD (7)

Here'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?

May 16, 2007 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | Comment
Entertainment Weekly
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A mindless comedy where the blatant racial stereotypes are outnumbered only by the flatulence jokes.

May 14, 2007 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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With Delta Farce, his second movie vehicle, the Southern-fried comedian Larry the Cable Guy takes ever greater risks to advance his career.

May 14, 2007 Comment
New York Times
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There are henpecked-husband jokes, gay jokes, turd humor, mispronounced Iraq war terms, guys asking "Who farted?" and lots more Crackel Barrel comedy.

May 14, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Post | Comment
New York Post
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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.

May 14, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Daily News | Comment
New York Daily News
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The liveliest battle in this atrocious service comedy is fighting the urge to leave midway through.

May 14, 2007 Comment
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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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.

November 20, 2008 Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | Comment
Hollywood.com

Whatever your pet sensitivity -- the military, rednecks, gays, Mexicans -- this movie is an equal-opportunity denigrator.

August 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | Comment
Sacramento News & Review

War in Iraq isn't funny -- neither is this movie.

November 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

Similar in stance to Wild Hogs, a completely braindead biker drone that makes this movie look like Animal Husbandry House, what we have here is hilarity for those who don't want to work for their amusement.

September 19, 2007 Full Review Source: DVDTalk.com | Comment
DVDTalk.com

Although no special features in the world could make this DVD worth your money, the ones that are presented are still disappointing.

September 13, 2007 Full Review Source: DVD Review | Comment
DVD Review

The only farcical aspect of it is that it was greenlit in the first place.

September 13, 2007 Full Review Source: DVD Review | Comment
DVD Review

One of those movies that's great until the movie starts.

August 30, 2007 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | Comment
NewsBlaze

It's OK to write comedies about morons%u2026as long as you don't insult the intelligence of the audience in the script.

June 10, 2007 Full Review | Comment
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

Is it funny? Not really. All of its subversive potential is wasted on [director] Harding, and even the straight-ahead farce is joyless.

May 22, 2007 Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | Comment
Austin Chronicle

...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.

May 20, 2007 Full Review | Comment
Movie Eye

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.

May 19, 2007 Full Review Source: Time Out New York | Comment
Time Out New York

A romantic flicker between the dumpy Larry and a pretty local senorita defies all logic -- even in a movie this illogical.

May 19, 2007 Comment
Reel.com

I can honestly say that I didn't laugh once

May 16, 2007 Full Review | Comment

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.

May 16, 2007 Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | Comment
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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.

May 15, 2007 Full Review Source: Premiere Magazine | Comment
Premiere Magazine

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.

May 15, 2007 Full Review Source: AV Club | Comment
AV Club

Lord, I apologize, but Larry the Cable Guy just can't seem to get 'er done in a feature film.

May 15, 2007 Comment

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?

May 14, 2007 Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | Comment
St. Paul Pioneer Press
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Audience Reviews for Delta Farce

Delta Farce has got to be the most awful, shallow, poorly constructed comedy film ever made. This is a film that makes every Pauly Shore film look like classics by comparison. You know right from the start that the cast for this horrid train wreck will not be good when you have Larry The Cable Guy, a comedian who's

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