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Witless Protection (2008)

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Reviews Counted:26

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Rotten:26

Average Rating:1.9/10

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

Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins

Genre: Comedies

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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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.

Full Review Source: AV Club | comment Comment
02/25/08
Steven Hyden
Steven Hyden
AV Club

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 otherwise genial Witless Protection scrapes bottom whenever a black person or an Asian or an Arab is wheeled on for just-kiddin' laughs.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
02/25/08
Ty Burr
Ty Burr
Boston Globe

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

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

Lowbrow comedy is crude -- and not very funny.

Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | comment Comment
02/22/08
S. Jhoanna Robledo
S. Jhoanna Robledo
Common Sense Media

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

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?

Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
02/25/08
Tod Goldberg
Tod Goldberg
E! Online

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

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

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

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
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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)

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

In Witless Protection, Larry the Cable Guy plays a small-town deputy, fantasizing about becoming an F.B.I. agent. Sitcom wackiness ensues.

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02/25/08
Matt Zoller Seitz
Matt Zoller Seitz
New York Times
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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)

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

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
 
 
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