Delta Farce




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The title says it all.

Larry (Daniel Lawrence Whitney) and his two best friends, Bill and Everett (Bill Engvall and DJ Qualls), are a trio of white trash trailer-parkers who are also Army Reservists once a month. They have their problems, but nothing compares to when they actually get drafted into the army and get shipped over to Iraq, all under the "loving" tutelage of their Sergeant Kilgore (Keith David). But a mishap lands them in Mexico, where they cause trouble as they try to defend a small village against local bandits.

Yeah, it's stupid. Delta Farce knows it's stupid, but it's still just stupid. The jokes are exactly what can be expected from two Blue Collar Comedy alumni. Basically they exploit every bad stereotype about the blue collar/redneck American populations in the book, and they can't even make that funny, unlike say Sacha Baron Cohen. Mostly it's just mildly repulsive humor, which usually revolves around impolite bodily functions. But people apparently like that kind of stuff, and on the bright side, Daniel Lawrence Whitney's Larry the Cable Guy only utters his git 'r done catchphrase once. Though that's about where the pluses end. The plot is an endless barrage of bad jokes coupled with a bad story, topping itself only when it tries to salvage a moral message out of it all. But God help me, the humor does pick up slightly in the last third by some freak accident, at least relative to the rest of the movie. Though that may be indicative that the first two thirds have bought off a majority share of your brain. Still, there's some kind of guilty pleasure in watching every horrible thing possible happen to the clichéd-to-the-hilt Sergeant Kilgore.

Nope, not much acting required here. Most of these guys simply reprise their personalities straight from their on stage acts. The highlights of the low points include Larry locking lips with a reasonably attractive girl. Eww.

What's worse than this movie? Knowing that Larry the Cable Guy's already got another one in the pipes.



-The Gnome