Delta Farce (2007)
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Um. Why did I even bother? Seriously.
Delta Farce is a supposed comedy from the "masterminds" behind the Blue Collar Comedy(cough) tour folks. Namely Larry "The Cable Guy", Bill Engvall, and that skinny annoying guy whose name I can't remember (DJ Qualls, had to look it up.)
In it these three idiot hillbillies somehow are part of the Army reserves. Explain that one to me, especially how their "reserve center" is more like a clubhouse.... Anyway, they actually get called up and wind up airdropped on accident into Mexico (how they ended up in Mexico on the way to Iraq is another mystery!)
And the hilarity ensues. Or at least its supposed to, I think.
Basically they fight off the local banditos from an overly-stereotypical Mexican village, Larry gets the girl and all is well. But, man, what a nightmare.
It's just not funny. The few-and-far between jokes aren't funny. Engvald's same 15-year old Redneck act just keeps getting tired, and what slapstick there should have been just falls apart as neither slappy or shtick.
The *only* bright side to the movie is that it stars Marisol Nichols (24, Blind Justice) as Maria, the "love interest" if you want to call it that, and she provides a much needed visual distraction from the rest of the chaos on screen. Thanks!
I had to pause the movie half-way through for a brief real-life interruption, and actually contemplated *not* finishing it. Yeah, its that bad.
Even the role of Sgt Kilgore (Keith David), the supposed-to-be deadpan-arsehole-type was flubbed, seriously. Again, just unfunny in any way thinkable. Unless you enjoy painful stereotypes and haunting visions of early-90's standup acts. (The talking pepper, man I thought I'd never see him again!!!)
And then at the end during the credits they've got the gall to dedicate this POS to our troops. Gee, thanks. All those fat, lazy, beer-drinking, no good troops who wouldn't know a foxhole from their you-know-what hole, right? Whatever, guys.
Just don't bother, I can't believe I did!!! I'd rather do a 24-hour marathon of Pauly Shore's moderately funny "In the Army Now" than view this thing again! Even the DVD is lacking the parody-of-a-parody "Full Metal Jacket" style artwork of the original movie poster. Lacking.
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Description
Larry the Cable Guy joins Bill Engvall and DJ Qualls in a hilarious comedy about three blue collar heroes on the military's front line.
Delta Farce takes its cue from John Kerry's ill-advised 2006 joke to university students that they should get a good education lest they wind up in Iraq. Case in point, Larry (Larry the Cable Guy), Bill (Bill Engvall, Larry's Blue Collar Comedy costar), and Everett (D.J. Qualls, geek first class from RoadTrip), who take respite from their failed relationships, jobs, and lives in their once-a-month stint as "weekend warriors" in the Army Reserve. Delta Farce's one great inspiration was to literally drop these clueless sad sacks into Mexico instead of Fallujah. After much confusion, they become the not-so-magnificent three, helping besieged villagers fend off a gang of bandits led by the dread Carlos Santana (insert your own guitarist jokes). Delta Farce belongs to a mostly proud tradition of morale-building military misfit comedies, but it ranks closer to Ernest in the Army or Pauly Shore's In the Army Now than to Buck Privates or Stripes. Delta Farce, dedicated to "the real men and women" who are serving our country, has no political agenda. It is content to engage in name-calling ("carpet-flyers" and "turds" are two we can print here), broad slapstick, decidedly un-PC ethnic stereotypes and epithets ("retarded" is used as a punchline on several occasions), and the occasional gross-out gag (the always reliable urine-in-a-canteen bit). The usually menacing Danny Trejo (Con Air) steals the film outright (which in this case is petty theft) as the karaoke-singing Carlos. But for Larry the Cable guy fans, and those who miss the sophisticated good ol' boy humor of Smokey and the Bandit (whose theme song is to this movie what Wagner's "Flight of the Valkyries" was to Apocalypse Now), Delta Farce may just "git r done." --Donald Liebenson
DVD Information
Binding: DVDAspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Brand: Delta
Manufacturer: Lionsgate Home Entertainment
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Actors:
- Larry the Cable Guy
- Bill Engvall
- DJ Qualls
- Michael Rose
- Glenn Morshower
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