Witless Protection: reviews

What the critics say average 1.9 from 13 outlets

• 4.0 New York TimesMatt Zoller Seitz The slapstick and action set pieces are lame, and its performances range from competent to annoying. Read
• 3.0 The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck At least a fright-wigged Joe Mantegna, delivering an execrable cameo as a whacked-out doctor, has a good excuse for his presence; the writer-director is one of his former film students.
• 3.0 VarietyJohn Anderson If you need a GPS unit to find your own backside, you'll be laughing uproariously at Witless Protection, a movie that's far more interesting politically than dramatically -- or, God knows, comically.
• 3.0 L.A. WeeklyLuke Y. Thompson Still, it’s hard to despise the movie, especially when Peter Stormare shows up over-enunciating the most brilliantly awful English accent of all time.
• 2.5 The Boston GlobeTy Burr It's mostly harmless dum-dum stuff, though. Read
• 2.5 Film Journal InternationalEthan Alter 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.
• 2.0 Time OutStephen Garrett Redneck comic Larry the Cable Guy returns to multiplexes with another hillbilly-humor fiasco, this time playing a Mississippi deputy who crosses paths with a shady FBI crew escorting a sexy crime-case witness to Chicago. Read
• 2.0 BoxofficeAmy Nicholson It's the audience that deserves Protection from this Witless Larry the Cable Guy vehicle.
• 1.3 The Boston PhoenixBetsy Sherman 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.
• 1.0 Mountain XpressKen Hanke Merely an excuse for the viewer to delight in the hilarity generated by Mr. Cable Guy breaking wind, vomiting, producing various gastric noises, etc. Read
• 0.0 The A.V. ClubSteven Hyden 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.
• 0.0 E! OnlineTod Goldberg 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?
• 0.0 Eric D. SniderEric D. Snider I began hating it not just for its utter lack of quality as art or entertainment, but for the blackness of its very soul. Read