Witless Protection (2008)
Average Rating: 2.1/10
Reviews Counted: 29
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 28
Larry the Cable Guy continues his critical losing streak with this insipid, tasteless caper comedy.
Average Rating: 2.4/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 6
Larry the Cable Guy continues his critical losing streak with this insipid, tasteless caper comedy.
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When a small-town sheriff (Larry the Cable Guy) witnesses what he believes to be an attempted kidnapping, his effort to save the beautiful damsel in distress sets him down a wild path of comic mishap. Eric Roberts, Yaphet Kotto, Peter Stormare, and Joe Mantegna co-star in a comedy from Red Water and Christmas Rush director Charles Robert Carner. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Larry The Cable Guy
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Ivana Milicevic
Madeleine Dimkowski -
Yaphet Kotto
Alonzo Moseley -
Peter Stormare
Arthur Grimsley -
Eric Roberts
Wilford Duvall -
Joe Mantegna
Dr. Rondog "Doc" Savage -
Jenny McCarthy
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All Critics (29) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (28) | DVD (3)
Gratuitous support-our-troops iconography and post-9/11 paranoia permeate a harebrained plot.
Top CriticThe otherwise genial Witless Protection scrapes bottom whenever a black person or an Asian or an Arab is wheeled on for just-kiddin' laughs.
In Witless Protection, Larry the Cable Guy plays a small-town deputy, fantasizing about becoming an F.B.I. agent. Sitcom wackiness ensues.
Makes his previous effort, Delta Farce, seem a classic by comparison.
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.
It's sad to watch Yaphet Kotto, as the shady fed, clothesline the stereotypical Muslim motel owner who's already been threatened by Larry with a trip to Gitmo.
Witless, lowbrow fun is the signature of this so-so comedy with Larry the Cable Guy in fine fat form as a country bumpkin deputy sheriff with delusions of grander than smalltown cop
The movie doesn't even have the common decency to be under 90 minutes. What a bore.
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?
During the last part of this wacky comedy, it loses the amusing push-pull intimacy between its 'odd-couple' protagonists.
From this kind of witlessness, the only protection is not to see it.
Merely an excuse for the viewer to delight in the hilarity generated by Mr. Cable Guy breaking wind, vomiting, producing various gastric noises, etc.
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.
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.
It's the audience that deserves Protection from this Witless Larry the Cable Guy vehicle.
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?
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.
The nastiest and silliest of Larry the Cable Guide big-screen vehicles, Witless Protection, the formulaic road flick, is Witless Comedy par excellence.
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