Witless Protection (2008)
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Reviews Counted: 23 Fresh: 0 Rotten:23 Average Rating: 1.8/10
Consensus:
Larry the Cable Guy continues his critical losing streak with this insipid, tasteless caper comedy.
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Theatrical Release: Feb 22, 2008 Wide
Box Office: $4,131,640
Synopsis: Standup comedy phenom Larry the Cable Guy (CARS, BLUE COLLAR TV, DELTA FARCE) brings plenty of girth and mirth to his latest film, the police caper WITLESS PROTECTION. Larry (real name Daniel Lawrence Whitney) plays Deputy Larry Sandler, a small-town sheriff's deputy with good time... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Larry the Cable Guy, Ivana Milicevic, Yaphet Kotto, Peter Stormare, Eric Roberts
Director: Charles Robert Carner
Screenwriter: Charles Robert Carner
Producer: J.P. Williams, Alan C. Blomquist
Composer: Eric Allaman
Screenwriter: Charles Robert Carner
Producer: J.P. Williams, Alan C. Blomquist
Composer: Eric Allaman
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The movie doesn't even have the common decency to be under 90 minutes. What a bore.
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07/22/08
I've got an idea for Larry the Cable Guy's next dumb movie. Maybe the lowbrow bumbler with the big heart and even bigger beer gut could play, oh I don't know, a cable guy?
03/01/08
During the last part of this wacky comedy, it loses the amusing push-pull intimacy between its 'odd-couple' protagonists.
03/01/08
Gratuitous support-our-troops iconography and post-9/11 paranoia permeate a harebrained plot.
02/28/08
Merely an excuse for the viewer to delight in the hilarity generated by Mr. Cable Guy breaking wind, vomiting, producing various gastric noises, etc.
02/27/08
Ranting about Witless Protection's political incorrectness -- not to mention its general stupidity -- would be a waste of breath. Even so, the movie is breathtakingly offensive at times.
02/26/08
Larry The Cable Guy is a cancerous boil on the ass of comedy, but it's still sort of shocking how little effort he puts into his movies.
02/25/08
It’s the audience that deserves Protection from this Witless Larry the Cable Guy vehicle.
02/25/08
The otherwise genial Witless Protection scrapes bottom whenever a black person or an Asian or an Arab is wheeled on for just-kiddin' laughs.
02/25/08
Top Critic
You have what might very well be the worst movie of 2008. And 2009. And probably 2010, too. Did we fail to mention the exploding farts?
02/25/08
In Witless Protection, Larry the Cable Guy plays a small-town deputy, fantasizing about becoming an F.B.I. agent. Sitcom wackiness ensues.
02/25/08
Top Critic
Makes his previous effort, Delta Farce, seem a classic by comparison.
02/25/08
Top Critic
One can only hope that Witless Protection is targeted at a vanishing species of American Neanderthal. In the meantime, perhaps Larry and his accomplices at Lionsgate could take some sensitivity traning.
02/25/08
Top Critic
Maybe there are only two kinds of people in this world. Those who think Larry the Cable Guy is funny, and those who do not. I am in the latter camp.
02/24/08
The nastiest and silliest of Larry the Cable Guide big-screen vehicles, Witless Protection, the formulaic road flick, is Witless Comedy par excellence.
02/23/08
I began hating it not just for its utter lack of quality as art or entertainment, but for the blackness of its very soul.
02/23/08
Witless Protection is disgusting, racist, clueless, sexist, charmless, unfunny, infantile, mean-spirited, amateurish, and insulting. In other words, it stars Larry The Cable Guy.
02/22/08
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