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Witless Protection (2008)

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Reviews Counted:26

Fresh:0

Rotten:26

Average Rating:1.9/10

Consensus: Larry the Cable Guy continues his critical losing streak with this insipid, tasteless caper comedy.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for crude and sex-related humor.

Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:Feb 22, 2008 Wide

Box Office: $4,131,640

Synopsis: Larry the Cable Guy returns for another comic misadventure as a small town sheriff who unwittingly gets involved in a high profile FBI case in Lionsgate’s new comedy, Witless Protection. During a... Larry the Cable Guy returns for another comic misadventure as a small town sheriff who unwittingly gets involved in a high profile FBI case in Lionsgate’s new comedy, Witless Protection. During a routine day spent patrolling his small town, Larry witnesses a beautiful, high-class woman, Madeleine, being held against her will by four mysterious, black-suited men. Recognizing the opportunity to save the day, Larry “kidnaps” her, only to learn that Madeleine is actually a key witness in a high-stakes Chicago crime case and her captors are FBI agents assigned to protect her. Madeleine is furious. But Larry, who rightly suspects the agents are crooked and Madeleine is in danger, forces her on a harebrained trip to Chicago to solve the case himself. Together, the hilariously mismatched duo must grapple with angry FBI agents, quack doctors and Chicago high society in his funniest, most unpredictable adventure yet.

Witless Protection is written and directed by Charles Robert Carner and stars Larry the Cable Guy, Ivana Milicevic, Yaphet Kotto, Peter Stormare, Eric Roberts, Joe Mantegna and Jenny McCarthy. --© Lionsgate
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Starring: Larry the Cable Guy, Ivana Milicevic, Yaphet Kotto, Peter Stormare

Starring: Larry the Cable Guy, Ivana Milicevic, Yaphet Kotto, Peter Stormare, Eric Roberts, Joe Mantegna, Jenny McCarthy

Director: Charles Robert Carner

Director: Charles Robert Carner
Screenwriter: Charles Robert Carner
Producer: J.P. Williams, Alan C. Blomquist
Composer: Eric Allaman
Studio: Lions Gate Films

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It’s the audience that deserves Protection from this Witless Larry the Cable Guy vehicle.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
02/25/08
Amy Nicholson
Amy Nicholson
Boxoffice Magazine

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

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
12/20/08
Andrew L. Urban
Andrew L. Urban
Urban Cinefile

The movie doesn't even have the common decency to be under 90 minutes. What a bore.

Full Review Source: Sin Magazine | comment 1 Comment
07/22/08
Austin Kennedy
Austin Kennedy
Sin Magazine

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.

Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
04/23/09
Betsy Sherman
Betsy Sherman
Boston Phoenix

During the last part of this wacky comedy, it loses the amusing push-pull intimacy between its 'odd-couple' protagonists.

Full Review Source: ReelTalk Movie Reviews | comment Comment
03/01/08
Betty Jo Tucker
Betty Jo Tucker
ReelTalk Movie Reviews

should once and for all spell the end of Larry the Cable Guy's horrendous run of Hollywood hokum.

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
02/22/08
Bill Gibron
Bill Gibron
Filmcritic.com

Witless Protection is disgusting, racist, clueless, sexist, charmless, unfunny, infantile, mean-spirited, amateurish, and insulting. In other words, it stars Larry The Cable Guy.

Full Review Source: DVDTalk.com | comment Comment
02/22/08
Brian Orndorf
Brian Orndorf
DVDTalk.com

About as charming as being slapped by a stranger.

Full Review Source: Bangor Daily News (Maine) | comment Comment
02/22/08
Christopher Smith
Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)

The nastiest and silliest of Larry the Cable Guide big-screen vehicles, Witless Protection, the formulaic road flick, is Witless Comedy par excellence.

Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | comment Comment
02/23/08
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

I began hating it not just for its utter lack of quality as art or entertainment, but for the blackness of its very soul.

Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | comment Comment
02/23/08
Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com

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.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
02/26/08
Ethan Alter
Ethan Alter
Film Journal International

Makes his previous effort, Delta Farce, seem a classic by comparison.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
02/25/08
Frank Scheck
Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter

From this kind of witlessness, the only protection is not to see it.

Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
02/29/08
Jim Lane
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review

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.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
02/25/08
John Anderson
John Anderson
Variety
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Did someone give a starring role to a Matador, one of the obese male cheerleaders who perform during time outs at Chicago Bulls' games?

Full Review Source: Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) | comment Comment
02/22/08
Josh Larsen
Josh Larsen
Sun Publications (Chicago, IL)

Merely an excuse for the viewer to delight in the hilarity generated by Mr. Cable Guy breaking wind, vomiting, producing various gastric noises, etc.

Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | comment Comment
02/27/08
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

In many ways, this movie reminds me of an Uwe Boll flick

Full Review Source: Film School Rejects | comment Comment
02/22/08
Kevin Carr
Kevin Carr
Film School Rejects

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?

Full Review Source: San Antonio Express-News | comment Comment
03/01/08
Larry Ratliff
Larry Ratliff
San Antonio Express-News

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.

Full Review Source: Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) | comment 2 Comments
02/24/08
Linda Cook
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

Carner directs so poorly that even set-pieces which ought to be interesting -- a Keystone Kops bit staged on a pig farm here, an oh-so-careful fight in an antique room there -- are rendered amateurishly.

Full Review Source: New Times | comment Comment
02/22/08
Luke Y. Thompson
Luke Y. Thompson
New Times
 
 
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