No one expects Delta
Farce
to compete with The
Godfather or Titanic
for Academy Awards supremacy,
but you
would expect everyone involved to try harder to be funnier.
Larry the Cable Guy stars as
Larry – a newly unemployed worker whose girlfriend got
pregnant by another
man. Bill Engvall
is his buddy, Bill - a
henpecked husband who makes a living winning frivolous lawsuits. The third man in this trio
of stooges is Everett
(DJ Qualls) – a security guard living in his storage locker
after getting fired
from the local police force. All
three
amigos serve in the National Guard, so they can play with heavy
artillery and
hang out at Hooters one weekend every month, but, to their shock and
awe,
Larry, Bill and Everett get called up to serve in Fallujah, Iraq. Of course, there is a mix
up along the way,
and they unknowingly get dumped in the middle of Mexico,
and think the local bandits
terrorizing a small little town might be Al Qaeda.
Will they realize
they are
in Mexico? Will they stop the bandits? Will they start an
international incident?
Delta
Farce is
a movie where
almost everyone is on cruise control.
Director CB Harding points the camera at Larry,
Engvall and Qualls as
they attempt some average slapstick comedy and attempt to make the
silliest
faces they can, while sometimes resorting to silly costumes. Writers Bear Aderhold and
Tom Sullivan
provide a bare bones script with the simplest of stories, characters
and
dialogue, then repeat almost every joke, sometimes more than once, as
they
attempt to stretch it out to a full 90-minutes like a D-student high
school kid
attempting to meet his 10-page requirement on a paper (maybe they
should have
adjusted the margins and increased the size of the font). Then, the entire cast
falls into their
stereotypical and cliché roles as we move from predictable
plot development to
even more cliché plot twist (I don’t think you can
even call it a plot twist
when it is this obvious and half-hearted, but go with it).
Sadly, even the most diehard
fans of Engvall and Larry the Cable Guy will see the shortcomings
of Delta
Farce. Both are
very funny stand up
comedians, especially Larry, but none of their respective acts show up
in the
movie, so they just decide to play along like Frank Sinatra, Dean
Martin and
Sammy Davis, Jr. might in a Rat Pack movie designed to let them play
the night
away off set instead of working very hard during the day on the movie
set. Sure, you will
laugh at some jokes, but most
don’t register much of a smile or a chuckle.
1
Waffle (Out
Of 4)
Delta
Farce is
rated PG-13 for crude and sexual humor
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