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Witless Protection (2008)

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Reviews Counted: 23 Fresh: 0  Rotten:23 Average Rating: 1.8/10
 
Consensus: Larry the Cable Guy continues his critical losing streak with this insipid, tasteless caper comedy.
 

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Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins

Theatrical Release: Feb 22, 2008 Wide

Box Office: $4,131,640

Synopsis: Standup comedy phenom Larry the Cable Guy (CARS, BLUE COLLAR TV, DELTA FARCE) brings plenty of girth and mirth to his latest film, the police caper WITLESS PROTECTION. Larry (real name Daniel Lawrence Whitney) plays Deputy Larry Sandler, a small-town sheriff's deputy with good time... Standup comedy phenom Larry the Cable Guy (CARS, BLUE COLLAR TV, DELTA FARCE) brings plenty of girth and mirth to his latest film, the police caper WITLESS PROTECTION. Larry (real name Daniel Lawrence Whitney) plays Deputy Larry Sandler, a small-town sheriff's deputy with good time buddies, a sassy but adoring girlfriend named Connie (Jennie McCarthy), and dreams of being an FBI agent. Providence comes Larry's way when he spots Madeleine Dimkowski (Ivana Milicevic) and concludes that her FBI escorts, led by Yaphet Kotto (HOMICIDE), are not on the level. Larry kidnaps big city snob Madeleine, who is a key government witness against corrupt businessman Arthur Grimsley (Peter Stormare), and resolves to deliver her to the proper authorities in Chicago. Hotly pursued by Kotto's bogus FBI agents, as well as Grimsley's devious security chief (Eric Roberts), Larry and Madeleine must learn to bridge their many cultural differences if they are to make it to the trial alive. Lampooning everything from celebrity adoption habits to Homeland Security, the film cuts a broad swath of unabashed political incorrectness on its cross-country escapade. Farcical and fun, WITLESS PROTECTION aims to prove that, no matter what our backgrounds or biases, nothing brings out the best like doing what's right. [More]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Larry the Cable Guy, Ivana Milicevic, Yaphet Kotto, Peter Stormare, Eric Roberts

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

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Jun 10, 2008

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.5/4

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

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07/22/08
Austin Kennedy
Sin Magazine
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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?

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03/01/08
Larry Ratliff
San Antonio Express-News
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During the last part of this wacky comedy, it loses the amusing push-pull intimacy between its 'odd-couple' protagonists.

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03/01/08
Betty Jo Tucker
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
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1/5

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

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02/29/08
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review
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1/6

Gratuitous support-our-troops iconography and post-9/11 paranoia permeate a harebrained plot.

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02/28/08
Stephen Garrett
Time Out New York
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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.

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02/27/08
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
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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.

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02/26/08
Ethan Alter
Film Journal International
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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.

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02/25/08
Steven Hyden
Onion AV Club
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It’s the audience that deserves Protection from this Witless Larry the Cable Guy vehicle.

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02/25/08
Amy Nicholson
Boxoffice Magazine
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The otherwise genial Witless Protection scrapes bottom whenever a black person or an Asian or an Arab is wheeled on for just-kiddin' laughs.

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02/25/08
Ty Burr
Boston Globe
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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?

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02/25/08
Tod Goldberg
E! Online
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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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02/25/08
Matt Zoller Seitz
New York Times
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Makes his previous effort, Delta Farce, seem a classic by comparison.

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02/25/08
Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter
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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.

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02/25/08
John Anderson
Variety
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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.

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02/24/08
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
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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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02/23/08
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com
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I began hating it not just for its utter lack of quality as art or entertainment, but for the blackness of its very soul.

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02/23/08
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com
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About as charming as being slapped by a stranger.

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02/22/08
Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)
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In many ways, this movie reminds me of an Uwe Boll flick

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02/22/08
Kevin Carr
Film School Rejects
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Witless Protection is disgusting, racist, clueless, sexist, charmless, unfunny, infantile, mean-spirited, amateurish, and insulting. In other words, it stars Larry The Cable Guy.

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02/22/08
Brian Orndorf
DVDTalk.com
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