Hilarious review of the Larry the Cable Guy movie "Delta Farce"

[Pale Blue Dot]

"If you're hungry for comical interpretations of an errant war, may I suggest any episode of M*A*S*H – or, indeed, any episode of Fox News."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070511.wfarce11/BNStory/Entertainment/home

[MADem]

1. ....viewers will be left thinking Borat has a soft touch

Good gravy--this one looks like it pushes EVERY possible button:

...When Sergeant Kilgore arrives in town and mistakenly recruits these schmos into the U.S. Army, there is a glimmer of hope as we imagine a flurry of bullets, followed by everyone falling dead and the scrolling of end credits. No such luck.

Sgt. Kilgore does send Larry and Co. on a plane heading for Iraq (“I read somewhere 'dem carpet fliers don't even use toilet paper,” Larry offers). But because of a series of confusions the trio wakes one morning in a Mexican desert, which they mistake for a Middle East combat zone. Everett, in a surge of enthusiasm, shoots the first mule that lumbers past and accosts its Mexican owners (“Are you a Turd or a Shitite?”).

Here, another glimmer of hope flickers on. Will Delta Farce crystallize into a critique of the war in Iraq and the headstrong stratagems of the Bush administration? American soldiers mistake a friendly nation for a battlefield and proceed to violate international laws by enforcing their notion of what's right – sounds like the start of something smart. Wrong again.

Delta Farce is so relentlessly racist (and homophobic), without ever having the intelligence to pass that bigotry off as satire, that viewers will be left thinking Borat has a soft touch.....After ensuring that all scraps of wit are firmly squashed, Larry and his buddies embark on madcap adventures to “liberate” a Mexican village from roaming banditos – a band of tequila-swilling stereotypes led by the evil Carlos Santana (Danny Trejo), who, when not shooting things, enjoys karaoke, wrestling and sitting on his throne of hubcaps.

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[Mojambo]

2. This concludes the last time the word hilarious and Larry the CG will be used in the same sentence.

[Donnachaidh]

3. I saw the trailer for this.

I don't know what is more moronic - the movie, or the yahoo that will pay ten bucks to see it. :eyes:

[Catherine Vincent]

4. I was thinking about going to see it this weekend.

I'm in the mood for a good comedy. Maybe I'll try something else.

[Donnachaidh]

5. ANYTHING else is better

Really. How many times to you want to sit through *homo* jokes, *beaner* jokes, etc.? I liked DJ Qualls in the New Guy, but I won't see this.

[AlCzervik]

6. Eddie Griffin was hilarious in The New Guy, he made that movie worth seeing imo.

[Donnachaidh]

7. oh yeah -- that headsnapping LOOK!

:rofl:

[Decruiter]

10. Consider the intelligence of the average American

Then remember that half the population is LESS intelligent than that.

H.L. Mencken: "No one ever lost money UNDERestimating the intelligence of the masses."

Huh, that carpet-flyer joke alone was worth the price of admission. Huh-huh.

[Decruiter]

11. Huh-huh, huh-huh. Huh-huh.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

8. David Cross's letter to Larry:

a must-read

http://www.bobanddavid.com/david.asp?artID=183

[asthmaticeog]

9. "Larry is an American loser. He loses his girlfriend and job in the same day..."

I'm sorry, but is that not the plot setup of "Stripes?" x(

On edit: "...Larry and his buddies embark on madcap adventures to 'liberate' a Mexican village from roaming banditos – a band of tequila-swilling stereotypes..." Ahem, "The Three Amigos?"

[MrSlayer]

12. Indeed.

I'm sure all similarities end there. I saw the trailer for this when I went to see 300 and I nearly left the theater because even 2 minutes of clips was so painfully bad. You couldn't pay me to see this trash.