Witless Protection: Critic Reviews

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Matt Zoller Seitz New York Times (Top Critic)

30

In Witless Protection, Larry the Cable Guy plays a small-town deputy, fantasizing about becoming an F.B.I. agent. Sitcom wackiness ensues.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Ty Burr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

25

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 » 4 years ago
John Anderson Variety (Top Critic)

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 » 4 years ago
Frank Scheck Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

Makes his previous effort, Delta Farce, seem a classic by comparison.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Betsy Sherman Boston Phoenix

13

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 » 3 years ago
Andrew L. Urban Urban Cinefile

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 » 3 years ago
Stephen Schaefer Boston Herald

59

Full Review » 4 years ago
Austin Kennedy Sin Magazine

13

The movie doesn't even have the common decency to be under 90 minutes. What a bore.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Betty Jo Tucker ReelTalk Movie Reviews

During the last part of this wacky comedy, it loses the amusing push-pull intimacy between its 'odd-couple' protagonists.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Larry Ratliff San Antonio Express-News

38

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 » 4 years ago
Jim Lane Sacramento News & Review

20

From this kind of witlessness, the only protection is not to see it.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Stephen Garrett Time Out New York

17

Gratuitous support-our-troops iconography and post-9/11 paranoia permeate a harebrained plot.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Ken Hanke Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

10

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 » 4 years ago
Ethan Alter Film Journal International

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 » 4 years ago
Steven Hyden AV Club

0

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 » 4 years ago
Tod Goldberg E! Online

0

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 » 4 years ago
Amy Nicholson Boxoffice Magazine

It's the audience that deserves Protection from this Witless Larry the Cable Guy vehicle.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Linda Cook Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

13

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 » 4 years ago
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com

17

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 » 4 years ago
Eric D. Snider EricDSnider.com

0

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 » 4 years ago
Dave White Movies.com

42

Full Review » 4 years ago
Brian Orndorf DVDTalk.com

0

Witless Protection is disgusting, racist, clueless, sexist, charmless, unfunny, infantile, mean-spirited, amateurish, and insulting. In other words, it stars Larry The Cable Guy.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Luke Y. Thompson New Times

Carner directs so poorly that even set-pieces which ought to be interesting -- a Keystone Kops bit staged on a pig farm here, an oh-so-careful fight in an antique room there -- are rendered amateurishly.
Full Review » 4 years ago
S. Jhoanna Robledo Common Sense Media

40

Lowbrow comedy is crude -- and not very funny.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Josh Larsen Sun Publications (Chicago, IL)

25

Did someone give a starring role to a Matador, one of the obese male cheerleaders who perform during time outs at Chicago Bulls' games?
Full Review » 4 years ago