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.
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... [More]
Starring: Larry the Cable Guy, Ivana Milicevic, Yaphet Kotto, Peter Stormare
Director: Charles Robert Carner
Reviews for Witless Protection
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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 |
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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 |
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The movie doesn't even have the common decency to be under 90 minutes. What a bore. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
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 |
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During the last part of this wacky comedy, it loses the amusing push-pull intimacy between its 'odd-couple' protagonists. Full Review |
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1/5 |
From this kind of witlessness, the only protection is not to see it. Full Review |
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1/6 |
Gratuitous support-our-troops iconography and post-9/11 paranoia permeate a harebrained plot. Full Review |
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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 |
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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 |
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F |
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 |
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It’s the audience that deserves Protection from this Witless Larry the Cable Guy vehicle. Full Review |
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1/4 |
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 |
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F |
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 |
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1.5/5 |
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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Makes his previous effort, Delta Farce, seem a classic by comparison. Full Review |
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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 |
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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 |
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D |
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 |
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F |
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 |
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F |
About as charming as being slapped by a stranger. Full Review |
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