Farcical Overkill in Delta Farce
Written: Sep 23 '07
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Pros: Danny Trejo, even one or two funny parts
Cons: not very funny, very little content, bad dialog
The Bottom Line: If you're bound and determined to see it go ahead and waste a couple hours, otherwise go see something else.
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| wychic's Full Review: Delta Farce |
This is the story of three brave soldiers fighting for their country, heedless of the dangers of combat and always ready and willing to die in their selfless service to America...sort of...
...or maybe not even close.
Larry (Larry the Cable Guy), Bill (Bill Engvall), and Everett (DJ Qualls) are three average rednecks carrying out an average small-town life. Bill is "happily" married to his overbearing wife, Everett lives in a storage unit, and Larry just broke up with his girlfriend after she told him she was pregnant with someone else's baby.
To cheer Larry up after his breakup the trio go to the local army reserve base to practice shotgun with all the things Larry ever gave said girlfriend (including a bathroom scale). It's their bad luck that they happen to be practicing when Sergeant Kilgore (Keith David) comes to round up the rest of the reserves for deployment to Iraq.
After basic training the three are loaded into a plane headed for the Middle East, but rough weather causes the pilots to jettison the cargo...with Larry, Bill, and Everett sleeping inside one of the trucks. They wake up in "the middle east" (500 kilometers outside Mexico City) and head off to find the village they were supposed to be freeing, ending up in the quaint Mexican village of La Miranda and coming head-to-head with a vicious group of bandits and their ruthless leader, Carlos Santana ("not the singer" played by Danny Trejo).
Alright, I admit to being a fan of Blue Collar Comedy because they celebrate the quirks of a lifestyle I'm proud to call my own ("if there is more than one couch in your backyard, you might be a redneck") and Larry the Cable Guy has often gotten a chuckle from me. I've watched happily through Blue Collar Comedy Tour and Blue Collar Comedy Rides Again, as well as numerous Blue Collar acts on Comedy Central. For this reason I've been surprised at how little I've enjoyed Larry the Cable Guy's movies.
I watched Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector on HBO a few weeks ago and got a couple giggles, but for the most part I felt like I'd wasted my time, but the previews for Delta Farce looked far more promising. My husband put Delta Farce on his Netflix queue and eagerly awaited its arrival. As soon as it arrived we settled down to watch it...and even he, a die-hard fan of the empty-headed comedies and toilet humor (literally...the humor of toilets, everything that goes in them, and everything that happens near them) rated it a merely "ok, but make sure to send it back first thing on Monday so we can get something else".
The main purpose of the movie seems to be for advertising Larry the Cable Guy's stand-up jokes and movies people may enjoy if they like that sort of thing (as I found out after nearly 20 minutes of previews), there is very little by way of acting or special effects.
The plot for this movie in different hands could have been hilarious. There were a couple of laughs (Jeff Dunham as "the Amazing Ken" doing his Jalepeno on a Stick routine in front of an audience of humorless Mexican bandits) but most of what we got to see included three guys wandering around doing stupid things and Larry advertising what kind of turd can be found in the outhouse he just left.
The one redeeming character in this entire show, in my opinion, was the character of Carlos Santana. I've always been a fan of Danny Trejo because he is the best, most realistic "bad guy" I've ever seen...no doubt due to background as an armed robber, boxer, and frequenter of our country's finest prisons. Who better to play an outlaw than an ex-con?
In movies like this I always expect there to be a certain amount of racist and politically incorrect humor, though for the most part if people can keep an open mind and realize it's not serious it can be pretty funny. There was obviously some humor at the expense of Mexicans, though with being raised in a town where nearly half the population is comprised of Mexican migrants it isn't anything I haven't heard and I'm sure is comparatively mild to what you'd hear as you go further south. However, I do think they overkilled on the "gay humor". There are a few homosexuals in this movie and you can be sure none of them are portrayed nicely, one of them even being used as a method of torture for male prisoners. I can handle some political incorrectness, but if they'd put any label other than gay on the people portrayed in those jokes it would probably be considered going too far...it seems there's a lot less tolerance for being utterly disrespectful of a race or nationality than there is for disrespect of a lifestyle.
All-in-all I felt like this movie was a waste. I got a couple laughs but I feel like the bad acting, slow action, and flat jokes outweighed any of the positives I saw in the show. There are WAY too many comedies out there to choose from so if you're looking for a laugh it shouldn't be hard to find a different one.
Recommended:
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Movie Mood: Die-hard Fans Only
Viewing Method: Other
Film Completeness: A few glitches, but mostly complete.
Worst Part of this Film: Everything
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