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85 out of 124 people found the following comment useful :-
1.4 Rating for this movie is being very generous, 27 MÁRCIUS 2006

Author: justj-3 from United States

I saw this movie with my wife, 12 year old daughter & 13 year old son, it was on a Monday and there were 8 people total in the theater! (Should have been my first clue). The toilet humor was over done, while at times it fit the storyline, pissing in the shower was a little overboard and unnecessary. I loved Larry and gang on the Blue Comedy Tours, but this was raw sewage.

All the funny lines were in the T.V. commercial!

I did notice a major blooper. During one fresh scene (next day) and the few that followed it, the shirt of Tom Wilson had a large, wet stain on the pocket of his shirt - how did it get there and did we miss a cutting room floor funny?

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53 out of 68 people found the following comment useful :-
I had such high hopes for this movie..., 4 JÚNIUS 2006

Author: from United States

As a fan of Larry the Cable Guy and the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, my husband and I really wanted to see this movie. As a matter of fact, when we heard the release date, we ensured to plan an evening around going to the theater to see this movie. I've enjoyed watching Larry the Cable Guy over the years and I knew that this movie would not be Oscar worthy, or one of the best comedies I have ever seen, but I thought it would at least be entertaining - but to our surprise, it wasn't. We were turned off within the first 10 minutes of the movie and forced ourselves to sit through the remaining 80 minutes. Usually, just hearing Larry talk is enough to make some laugh, but by the end of the movie, we even tired of that. Unfortunately, I think we will be a little gun shy in seeing any future Larry the Cable Guy movies, unless of course, , he is teamed up with the rest of the Blue Collar cast and he is doing his stand-up act. This movie isn't even worthy of watching on DVD, unless you want to hear fart gags for an hour and a half.

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57 out of 80 people found the following comment useful :-
My honest opinion, 5 JÚNIUS 2006

Author: Isis_Vesta from Massachusetts, United States

I walked into the theater hoping I would get some good laughs. I went with my friend who worships Larry's humor. I left the theater disappointed. This movie is filled with the same joke over and over again. Basically overdone toilet humor. I have nothing against the humor, it's just the same jokes repeated over and over again. Nothing new or inventive here. Larry's humor was not creative. Just diarrhea jokes over and over throughout the whole entire movie! And that was the whole running gimmick! It became rather boring. This is a simple film which had the potential to be funny but destroyed it with horrible acting and boring humor.

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54 out of 80 people found the following comment useful :-
Deceiving Trailer, 28 MÁRCIUS 2006

Author: rogerdob from Los Angeles

Boy, was this film awful. I knew nothing about Larry, the Cable Guy until I clicked onto a preview on the web. The preview was hilarious! It was my type of low-brow humor and I thought this is going to be a funny film. However, after I go to the theater and the picture started to play, I felt I was really duped by the trailer. Whereas the trailer was tightly edited to give great timing to the jokes, the film was edited with no regards to proper timing of set-up and punch lines. There were even added scenes in the trailer that didn't exist in the film. This was one of those films that I had to leave early from. I could not take anymore after 40 minutes.

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84 out of 140 people found the following comment useful :-
An Ernest P. Worrell for the 21st Century ?, 23 MÁRCIUS 2006

Author: Harv Spangle (content@rimnod.com) from Over the mountains of the moon

I played on a Baptist College baseball team over twenty years ago with Dan "Larry the Cable Guy" Whitney. Even back then he was only a part- time pitcher but a full time clown. I wish he had shifted his focus and concentrated more on his curve ball. If he had then perhaps we would have been spared his first feature length film---"Larry the Cable Guy Health Inspector".

As a "starter" project this movie echoes the transitions made by other comedians-- most notably Jim Carrey (Ace Ventura -Pet Detective) and less notably Rob Schneider (Deuce Bigelow-Male Gigolo). However Dan's talent is probably better compared to the late Jim Varney and his alter ego-- "Ernest P. Worrell". Still, I can much more appreciate Varney's eccentric talents than Dan's stubborn assault on our sensibilities by offering repeated renditions of a stock version of a crude redneck character(or has he broadened this into being somehow representative of "blue collar crude" in an effort to pull some of the population living north of the Ohio River into this movie's prospective demographic?)

In "Health Inspector" Dan manages to exhaust most of the material found in his stand up routine. He also comes up with some new bits- most of which are only incidental variations on his old bits. It's true that he does break some new ground also. We get to see Larry in love through an indirect appeal to pathos. But the sum total of this film, in the end, is that it serves as little more than a woeful compilation of "Larry's the Cable Guy's" rather sloppy rise into the national consciousness.

The touchstone for deciding whether or not you should give "Health Inspector" a chance can be found in Dan's signature stage utterance---"Git r Done". If the humor buried in that expression appeals to you ---then by all means check out the movie. But if the phrase leaves you lost, cold and empty---you had best give the film a pass. For my part, I have never been able to translate "Git r Done" into anything that quite registers as "funny" on my tired brain. But I still went and saw the show anyway. After all, like I said --I used to play ball with this guy in school.

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70 out of 113 people found the following comment useful :-
nothing to see here., 28 MÁRCIUS 2006

Author: from United States

Tune into CMT or Comedy Central. Get the same jokes for free.

I'm a big fan of redneck humor. Jerry Clower is GOD.

But Jerry's real,born and bred.

This cable guy from West Palm Beach by way of Nebraska insults his fans.

I despise Jeff Gordon, whenever he pretends to be a good old boy.

Now picture Jeff Gordon in a flannel shirt, with cut off sleeves. Add about fifty pounds or so.

And get your authentic southern accent by watching the Simpsons cartoon character Cletus.

That's Larry. So long. I hope you enjoy playing Branson.

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65 out of 107 people found the following comment useful :-
Words fail me, 1 ÁPRILIS 2006

Author: duffyboy666 from United Kingdom

Normally when a new bad movie comes out, it usually sky rockets up the bottom 100 list. This is mainly just a trendy thing. You Got Served, Bloodrayne and From Justin to Kelly were among these unlucky ones. Oh sure they were bad movies alright, terrible movies to be blunter. But when you looked at the movies like Red Zone Cuba, Gigli and of course Manos, you couldn't really rate them as that bad.

NOT THIS TIME

Think of the most horrible, hateful put down you could ever attach to anyone and anything and it still wouldn't do Larry The Cable Guy justice. That's right folks. 40 years on and finally, Manos is now the world number two on the chart. This movie is the biggest piece of s**t to ever stink up the theatre. It is so jaw droppingly, blood-boilingly bad that you wouldn't even serve it to your most hated emnemy.

Not only is Larry The Cable Guy the single worst most horrible movie of all time, but it is the spawn of the single worst most horrible idea of all time. The plot involves a series of food poisonings at the city's best restaurants, with the All City Top Chef contest just days away. It's up to Larry and Butlin to figure out who's sabotaging the competition, even if it means taking on the breast-obsessed mayor.

Got that folks? It's another toilet humor film which sucks! And it's another film directed by a first timer (Trent Cooper)! See Deuce Bigalow for reference! In the first five minutes of the redneck comedian's film debut, we see Larry urinating on himself in the shower, flashing his butt crack, having a flatulence attack in front of his boss, and referencing the smell of "strawberry douche." At this point I turn unto God and ask "Why?" Why does Hollywood keep doing this with impunity!

Trent Cooper is only there to keep the movie in focus (he even fails that at times) and to make certain there are enough fart jokes to keep the overlong running time rumbling. Seriously, you could make DVD chapters out of the number of times Larry -- or anybody, really -- makes with the southern thunder. That is how awful this movie is. It can't even save itself with fart jokes.

Larry The Cable Guy is truly the worst movie of all time. It should be driven to a quiet spot, forced to kneel down and be shot through the head. That'll learn it!

NEVER WATCH THIS MOVIE.

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17 out of 22 people found the following comment useful :-
Do Not See This Film, 29 MÁRCIUS 2006

Author: anonymouslybeelzebub from United States

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I feel that I should preface this entire review by saying "Do Not See This Film". Larry The Cable Guy: Health Inspector is a terrible movie. The only positive element was seeing a really hot extra during the mall scene. Aside from that, this movie completely lacked enjoy-ability.

From the start I had my reservations, but being an open minded movie fan I decided to give it the benefit of the doubt. My doubt was first confirmed when the theater lights when out and other then myself and my guests there were only two other viewers. It only went downhill from there. Larry's jokes were not funny, the characters lacked any real development, and to say it was predictable would be an understatement.

The movie ends with Larry's token "Git-R-Done" catch phrase and a song that makes me weep for the future of the music industry. Despite all of this, the other two movie patrons were laughing hysterically throughout the film (they were also chewing tobacco and spitting it into a popcorn container).

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18 out of 26 people found the following comment useful :-
The worst and most harmful movie ever made, 3 ÁPRILIS 2006

Author: John Shaft (fabfunk3@hotmail.com) from New York, USA

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Lately I've been talking a lot of garbage to people about "Larry The Cable Guy: Health Inspector". I hadn't seen it, but with only the cursory knowledge and awareness of the title character's/personality's brand of humor, I felt I could write it off as just being forgettably terrible. But with some free time this weekend, I figured that it would be wrong to dismiss anything without actually experiencing it. Well, I was wrong, and I'm sorry, Mr.... err.... Mr. Guy. It was wrong to just write off "Health Inspector". This movie is not forgettable.

Congratulations, "Boondock Saints". Here I was, thinking you were the most puerile, vapid, idiotic, offensive movie in existence. But no: the worst film I have ever seen has no competition, and it is "Larry The Cable Guy: Health Inspector", number one with a bullet. Never before have I had any experience this soul-deadening, this harmful, trafficking in all forms of disgust and hate. "Health Inspector" is a hate crime, possibly the most vile ever perpetrated on the American public. If Donald Rumsfeld scaled back the torture budget in these international containment camps and just made suspected terrorists view "Larry The Cable Guy", it wouldn't be halfway into the film before we finally had the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden. Here Lionsgate is, presumptuous enough to charge money for this experience when I wouldn't wish it upon a hundred Hitlers.

The plot, as is, never ever mentions Larry as being a cable guy, although he seems to be playing his familiar on-stage persona, complete with catchphrase "Git-R-Done," which he says to the camera in the film's last moment, a final "Screw you, you saw this movie " Here, he plays a health inspector who always succeeds despite his slovenly ways, getting wrapped up in a food-poisoning mystery instigated by the town's evil mayor. Oops, spoiler warning.

Along the way, he is unclean and unkempt, and speaks like the ignorant redneck that he projects himself to be in his act, expending the film's entire budget on fart sound effects. $7 million worth of people last weekend (and a few more this weekend) spent their hard earned money on watching Larry the Cable Guy fart through a less-than-90 minute film. Along the way he romances cute character actress Megyn Price- after playing wife to Donal Logue for three years on "Grounded For Life", I imagine the price of crack's been risen, as she plays a character that somehow falls for this fat, ugly, retarded hick. Dame Judi Dench couldn't be convincing in this role. The only other major woman role in this film, aside from a wine baroness who has a penchant for disgusting internet sex with Joe Pantaliano, is Larry's partner, an androgynous, homely woman whom, through a running gag, is referred to by Larry as a boy. She is put upon and mocked by Larry the entire film, to the point where an appropriate character arc for her would be to end the film putting eight bullets into his skull. Alas, she grows to love him, and her character rises above her ridicule and earns her keep when Larry finally owns up and calls her a girl. This movie hates women a lot less than it hates Asians, Muslims and other various assorted races.

Maybe this whole thing is a calculated act of aggression-based confrontation comedy. Maybe this is meant to test your boundaries, and redefine what you think is offensive. Consider a moment when, to distract someone, Larry dresses up by placing a dinner cloth over his head, draped over his shoulders, with shades and a hat, emerging into the frame slumped over and his hands together, praying, as he affects a Middle Eastern accent, going, "Lulululululululu " You might initially think it was the most horrendous, tasteless exploitation of a Middle East lifestyle in history, but the scene happens in a mixed-race kitchen, and therefore his being from the Middle East has no context. What if he was just performing a baseless silly character without roots in any culture, and my own Eurocentrism claimed his character possessed traits of a Middle Easterner? What if Larry, in effect, is saying I'm the racist for assuming that? Well, considering one of the laugh lines in this film is Larry referring to an Indian restaurant as having "immigrant food", then Larry the Cable Guy is worse than AIDS.

And like AIDS, the movie should be treated with caution. Please, this is important, I beg of you- if you have a friend, family member, loved one who might be considering watching "Larry The Cable Guy: Health Inspector", please do everything in your power to stop them. This film will only cause irrevocable harm towards everyone and spread an acceptable attitude of racism, sexism and homophobia. It is up to you, not as a film-goer, or as an educated person, but as a HUMAN BEING, to make sure this film doesn't infect anyone you might know. I repeat, keep everyone you know away from this film, and you'll be doing your part to make this world a better place. And if they do happen to experience this film, act cautiously towards them, but know that they'll never recover that shred of humanity- paying $10 to see this film erases any humanitarian act anyone may accomplish, and is a mark that shall be forever held above their head.

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18 out of 28 people found the following comment useful :-
Total Waste, 2 ÁPRILIS 2006

Author: mrblueshoes81 from United States

Of all the Blue Collar Comedy actors, Larry The Cable Guy was never one of my favorites, but hey...I figured i'd give this movie a chance since I need a good laugh every now and then. Lets just say that this movie did not enhance my view of him. I wasn't expecting this to be an intellectual film or anything like that. While it did have a few funny parts, I spent most of the time in the theater teetering between pure boredom and annoyance. Unless you enjoy root canals, spinal taps, or anal probes I would avoid this one at all costs. If you need a good laugh I would implore you to rent something like Bringing Down The House or 40 Year Old Virgin. At least it doesn't cost as much and you will actually enjoy what you pay for.

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