Trailer Review: Witless Protection

Posted by Paul Clark


The late Pauline Kael once remarked that she didn't know anyone who voted for Nixon. That's sort of how I feel when I hear about Larry the Cable Guy, surely one of today's most inexplicable comedy superstars. Here Larry, who has since given up his second job as a health inspector, is now spending his non-cable-installing hours as a small-town lawman who mistakenly takes responsibility for a sexy government witness (hence the title... get it? GET IT???). Far as I can tell, Larry's only discernible talents are turning "blue collar comedy" into a kind of hick minstrel show (was his surprisingly charming voiceover work in Cars only two years ago?), and enlisting talented actors to play characters even more bumbling than him. I realize that Yaphet Kotto, Peter Stormare, and Joe Mantegna are hardly marquee names, but even nowadays they're clearly above this tripe. The word "slumming" seems woefully inadequate...


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