Product Description

Larry the Cable Guy returns for another comic misadventure as a small town sheriff who unwittingly gets involved in a high profile FBI case. Larry single-handedly "rescues" a sophisticated woman from the men who are actually protecting her. The hilariously mismatched duo must grapple with angry FBI agents, quack doctors and Chicago high society in his funniest, most unpredictable adventure yet.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #39031 in DVD
• Brand: LIONS GATE HOME ENT.
• Released on: 2008-06-10
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• ESRB Rating: Teen
• Formats: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 97 minutes

Amazon.com
It's official; Larry the Cable Guy is the new Ernest, and critics be damned. You want smart and sophisticated? Buy The Noel Coward Collection. Larry's a populist from the "I'd rather keep my fans happy" school, and his loyal following will be ecstatic with this film's broad slapstick, what one initially offended character calls "feeble, juvenile, and bigoted" humor, and gross-out bodily function gags (nude body-cavity search, anyone?). Larry portrays a small-town deputy with dreams of becoming an FBI special agent. "I know a criminal when I see one, a rat when I smell one, and a bad moon when it rises," he drawls. When he spies a woman (Ivana Milicevic) in the company of sinister-looking, Men in Black types, he rescues the "damsel in dee-stress." However, she is a government-protected witness en route to Chicago to testify in a sensational trial of Enron proportions. "Are you insane?" she asks him. "No," he replies, "I'm Larry." The film gets plenty of mileage out of their odd coupleness. Her cell-phone ringtone is classical music; his is the theme from Green Acres. She eats salads; he gorges himself on sausage. She's a liberal (who gets off an "impeach Bush" joke) and he bleeds U.S. Red (at one point, the action pauses for a small-town "Support Our Troops" parade).

Witless Protection also benefits from some oddball casting. Yaphet Kotto costars as FBI Agent Alonzo Mosely (the name of his character in the classic Midnight Run). Peter Stormare, the silent, creepy kidnapper in Fargo, portrays a corrupt businessman with an unaccountable British accent. In a baffling cameo, Joe Mantegna seems to be channeling Strother Martin, while Jenny McCarthy serves up some sass as Larry's waitress girlfriend, nuff said, and a game Eric Roberts is a goon who butts heads with Larry in an epic fight scene. Some jokes are stale (Larry dredges up Regis Philbin's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire catch-phrase), while others are current enough to reference Michael Vick and Angelina Jolie. It is a sign of artistic growth that Larry does not utter his own signature catch-phrase, so we won't either. Witless Protection was released theatrically during Oscar weekend, when Hollywood celebrates supreme achievement in film. This is what is known in the business as counter-programming. --Donald Liebenson

Customer Reviews

Lighted Up Folks!
After reading the other 4 reviews here, I probably wouldn't have rented this movie. However, I really liked Larry's two previous movies, especially Delta Farce, so I gave this one a quick spin around the block. Besides, any movie that the critics hate, I usually like anyway. I must say that this movie is a little more funny that Delta Farce. It is well-casted and had some great, funny moments. The humor surrounding the FBI agents was pretty good (i.e., an agents whose last name is Orange, so "Agent Orange") and it was great to see Yaphett Kotto after not seeing him in a movie for more than 5 years. Also, seeing Eric Roberts roam around in a jacket with the large letters "PMS" was pretty fair, too. I think you really need to be in a certain mood when taking in a new movie. I started watching this movie thinking it would be terrible, yet came out laughing and wanting to go immediately to the nearest video store to buy it. You just gotta have fun with this one!

Never should have seen the light of day
If you spent a penny for this movie you got ripped off. Larry the Cable Guy returns in his third (!?!?!?!?!) film as Larry the Cable Guy, big stretch I know. Again we are treated to idiotic one liners, bodily function jokes, redneck patriotism, and bumbling incompetance. Much like the Three Stooges or Inspector Cleuseu, no matter how idiotic the hero is, he always beats the bad guys. I love slapstick and sight gag humor, but a naked Larry the Cable Guy getting a body cavity search is just too much, even for his biggest fans. The only real redeaming thing about this movie is that Jeff Foxworthy did NOT make a cameo.

So what kind of film is this? Larry is a small town deputy who dreams of becoming an FBI agent. So in an attempt to make his dream come true, he kidnaps a witness from FBI protection. He then decides to take her to CHicago himself to testify. Of course we have some corrupt agents which does nothing but stretch this movie out another unbearable 30 minutes. There;s really nothing else to say about the movie except that it sucks and Larry's constant one liners just make the film that much painful.

Larry the Cable Guy at his best
This movie was just all out good slap stick humor. Good old classic country Larry the Cable Guy humor. The funniest I've seen Larry since he tried fake wrestling in the hit series "Blue Color Comedy TV" as the wrestler Fred Flintstone. However, I can't bring myself to give this movie more then 3.5 stars because I have seen funnier movies such as Super Troopers.