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But it WAS funny! Spoilers

posted 16 years ago by kinofan1
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I went in a little worried that Witless Protection was going to be another "stupid funny" movie, which is not my style. But I had reasons for seeing this, so I braced myself and sat down.

I don’t know when I’ve laughed so much! Yes, I could have done without with the constant farting, but it WAS a setup for a later payoff. But the script itself was clever. You wouldn’t expect to have to pay attention in a film like this, but there are many subtleties in the setups and payoffs.

The typical redneck who can't get the right words out - EVER - is actually intelligent enough to know all of the FBI regs by heart. He has a dream to get out of smallville, and then has a reality check. And, unlike most stories, the gorgeous blonde never becomes the Bellamy (the "other woman"). He stays true.

Sure it’s a little cheesy at times, and sure, they poke fun of each other’s race and social standings. Get over it. It’s comedy, for crying out loud. Good comedy. Good triplets. Good beats.

And this comment from a well-educated Southerner who also loves comedies ranging from Mouse Hunt to French Kiss! Witless Protection is NOT just for rednecks!

[–] loungelizard5000 16 years ago

When did you recieve your head injury? You need to look up some smart, original comedy. Like Mr. Show. This sorry excuse for a flick was SO LAME, we turned it off 40 minutes into it. (My room-mates secratary's father gets the DVD's from China like 4 or 5 months early when he's over there for buisiness.)

We only laughed when everyone said, what kind of idiots actually enjoy this cliche'd crap other than 5-year olds?!

Man it was bad. Besides his armpits always hanging out, and that STUPID fake southern accent, none of the gags or bits were new. They've ALL been done before, and done much better I might add. This sh!t is WEAK!

[–] ScottLovesIsrael 16 years ago

Mr. Show was horrible. David Cross is the one comedian who's actually more annoying than Larry The Cable Guy. Cross is just so smarmy and sure that he's better than everyone else.

[–] loungelizard5000 16 years ago

Levy, if you don't get Mr. Show, you're not intelligent at all. Like Ben Stiller says in the forward to the mr Show book, "What Happened?!", "I try not to judge people by their tastes in comedy, but it's kind of impossible."

Other comments on Mr. show in the forward:

"Mr.Show is America's answer to Monty Python. Brilliant, conceptual, state of the art." -Mike Myers

"When I first saw Mr. Show it got me excited about the potential of sketch comedy again. It proved there were still new things to be done." -Dave Foley of Kids in the Hall

"Some of televisions's smartest and darkest comedy." -L.A. Times

"A twisted and often brilliant stream of comedy consciousness...fast, funny and furious stuff." -Rolling Stone Magazine

"A program SO smart and funny it seems to exist on a higher evolutionary plane than it's sketch-comedy peers. -The Onion

It goes on to be praised by other comedians such as Conan O'Brien, Gary Shandling, Vince Vaughn, Janeane Garofalo, Bob Goldthwait, Margaret Cho, Kathy Griffin, Jimmy Fallon, Chris Rock, Stller, Andy Dick, Louis C.K. and too many more to mention.

It was ahead of it's time, and you were to dumb to catch on. Maybe one day you'll catch up.

Go back to the Britney Spears board now. Peas.

[–] ScottLovesIsrael 16 years ago

Ok, I get it now...

Hello Mr. Cross. How's it going? And why are you hanging out on an IMDB board for a Larry the Cable Guy movie? Nice career you have going on for yourself...

[–] loungelizard5000 16 years ago

Good rebuttle, retard. The book is on sale on Amazon and other retailers. Of course, like most Larry The Fartin' Fake Redneck With His Armpits Hanging Out fans you probably think books are "high-falutin". Do you think ANY of the above comedians will EVER say anything positive about your dumb-redneck acting fool with his armpits hanging out EVER? No. Do you think ANY respected comedian will ever say anything positive about him EVER? No.

No chance.

Ever.

'Tard.

Oh, yeah, nice that this lame excuse for a movie is rated #4 on IMDB's worst movie list. Good job being a fan of THAT, buddy. You have some good company there. Witless Protection is rated 1.4 by IMDB users and Mr. Show is rated 9.2 God are you dumb.

Now just get back on that Britney Spears board. I'm sure it's interesting.

Dumb redneck 'tard.

Consider yourself burned, dumbass.

[–] ScottLovesIsrael 16 years ago

I don't like Larry the Cable Guy. And I also hate people who can't even spell words like "retard". I mean seriously, there's almost no word more annoying than "tard".

I even like some of the comedians you quoted, but I hate your smug little idol David Cross, he's just as bad as Larry The Cable Guy. Shoving your political/religious ideals down the audiences throat just isn't funny or entertaining.

Some people just don't share your likes and dislikes. Get over it. And go back to your little Jenna Haze board, David. ;)

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[–] davefan4077 16 years ago

Mr. Show is the greatest telivision program of all time bitches

[–] stevenkmiller 15 years ago

Damn, do you hang out other places and try to tell people how unintelligent they are just because they don't like what you like, or is this your sole forum for that kind of closedmindedness. This was a good lighthearted redneck romp, that's all. I haven't seen Mr. Show but I am not calling you unintelligent for liking it, as I am sure that it had qualities that appealed to you and others. Wow.

[–] trailinghome 14 years ago

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

America's answer to Monty Python.
Gimme a break.
America could never have an answer to Monty Python.

Are you that conceited?

Mike Myers? the only things he ever did that were any good were Wayne's World, shovel my grandmoms driveway and cheer for the Leafs.
Those spy movies, OMG, the only saving grace there were the hot babes.

Ben Stiller, Conan O'Brien, Gary Shandling, Chris Rock, could never make me smile.
Not once, I really did try to watch them. Honest I did. LOL

I'd much rather watch Britney try and speak intelligently, hey I could just drool, stare at her boobs instead, better than suffering through those "so called comedians" acts.

I even tried watching Everybody Loves Raymond, never cracked a smile once there either.

I think all the good American comedians are dead.
Oh wait, I did enjoy watching Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay,
Are they American?

Kids in the Hall?
Where's the barf bag?
I'm goona puke.

I rolled on the floor laughing, watching Charlies Aunt, hey, but that was made in 1941, stared Jack Benny.

All the stars in Laugh In, were awesome and ditto for the Carol Burnett Show, Second City too (Toronto.)

Charlie Chaplin, Red Skelton, John Candy, oops he was Canadian, Chris Farley, John Belushi, Jackie Gleason, Danny Kaye, Jack Lemmon, Groucho Marx, Gilda Radner, Phil Silvers, Benny Hill, oops he was a Brit.

The list is almost endless, but most are dead.

[–] kinofan1 16 years ago

No head injury, and, apparently, a slightly better education in English! I watch a lot of good comedy, BTW.

So your roommate's secretary's father (spelling, there, child) buys stolen goods - yes, that is what getting movies from China is. I'm unimpressed. It's people like him that are ruining the film business. Perhaps one day it will come back on him.

So sad you cannot accept another's opinions without categorizing them as idiots and five-year-olds. Sometimes a movie is just a nice break from reality. No expectations. Just a laugh. But if you had actually LISTENED to the dialogue, you'd hear some great writing, even if you didn't like the story itself.

[–] loungelizard5000 16 years ago

1. Ok. Sorry I put an "A" in there when it was supposed to be an "E". I was typing fast and made a mistake. Thank you for pointing it out Mr. Einstein, and thank you again for that theory of relativity.

2. NOTHING illegal was done. I don't know why these things come out earlier in China, but they do. Her father paid for it, and it came in a nice pretty box with labels and bar-codes and all that good stuff.

3. If you want to talk about giving money to China, consider where so many rednecks shop. WAL-MART! Almost EVERYTHING there is made in China or another third-world country and sold with lead to poison American children. That place is part of the continuous rape of America. It steals money and jobs from this country and is part of the enslaving of poor American people. They even put "Made in America" on products that were made in Taiwan islands on slave labor because the island was bought by a few Americans. This is all easily looked up and searched on any internet search engine. Check out wakeupwalmart.com

4. I'm certainly not the only one on here bashing Larry-the-Fartin'-and-Armpits-Hanging-Out-Chewin'-Tobacco-Guy. If you look at the boards, AT LEAST 75% of the people on here are ripping on this waste-of-space. It's a free country, and it's a MOVIE site. We can give our opinions if we want to. Sorry if I offended you in any way, but some people are VERY offended at the dumbing down of America. It scares us a little bit, and makes us sick to our stomachs.

[–] dukeofcool 16 years ago

Larry fans spend the better part of the day trying to eat their own ear. You can typically spot them in a given situation by their tendency to run back and forth, crashing headlong into walls. They characteristically become enraged when confronted with the general lack of talent possessed by one Larry the Cable Guy and become verbally abusive and incoherent, confronting the attacker with shouts of "yer jus jelus" and "Larry funy you not no wut funy iz." They should be approached with extreme caution. They are easily subdued by quickly rotating the helmet so that it covers their eyes and they become instantly incapacitated. From that point, they can be contained and studied. Perhaps one day, we will develop a cure.

That is all.

Strike first. Strike hard. No mercy.

[–] goose4204life 16 years ago

> Sorry if I offended you in any way, but some people are VERY offended at the
> dumbing down of America. It scares us a little bit, and makes us sick to our
> stomachs.

I get that feeling every time I listen to Obama speak too! Thought I was the only one ...

Stupid troll.

[–] loungelizard5000 16 years ago

Ok........what about when George Bush speaks. He can't say one sentence without f-ing it up. Retard. He probably LOVES Larry-the-Fartin'-Redneck-Armpits-Hanging-Out-Guy. Probably thinks he's a GENIUS!!!

[–] chisoxwinin05 16 years ago

Technically when he brings the bootleg movies from China, he is internationally smuggling stolen material.

[–] johnny718bravo 16 years ago

"But it WAS funny!..."

But no it wasn't.

[–] Reliquary225-1 16 years ago

Haha. The movie WAS NOT funny...but the petty arguments on this board ARE! Thanks for the laughs. If I say both Larry the Cableguy and David Cross suck are you both going to tear me a new one? It was just a movie. It could be the worst movie on the planet but someone on this planet is always going to like it. Get over it.

[–] loungelizard5000 16 years ago

You almost had a point......but David Cross does not suck. He was part of Mr.Show. Pure comedic genius. And it's "not just a movie". It's a piece of *beep* made by some retards and watched by white-trash, inbred retards and it is horrible by any standards and part of the dumbing down of America and it needs to be stopped. It is pathetic and sad. YOU suck for sticking up for it! Duh-hurrrrrr....."I loves me sum fat white guys with their armpits hangin' out and a backwards baseball cap actin' like an *beep* retard!" "Them's GREAT!" "I'm a-gonna-watch-me-sum-Nascar-and-drink-me-sum-Busch-Lite-in-a-Can!" "Weee--haaahh!!"

Idiot.

White-trash-inbred-retard.

Moron.

Dumb-ass.

Sheep.

George Bush lover.

*beep*

[–] dranaway 16 years ago

loungelizard5000, you're pretentious, obnoxious, and you just trolled a Larry the Cable Guy thread over the span of a couple months. For hating him so badly, you sure seem pretty dead-set on contribute to this guy's continuing public attention. Way to feed the machine.

I can't decide what's worse, posters like this guy or the fact that someone actually defended this movie.

[–] loungelizard5000 16 years ago

I can't help it, bro......I hate this guy almost as much as I hate George Bush, Dick Cheney, Condi ( Aunt Tom ) Rice and Rush Limbaugh. I'm not feeding the machine.......the rednecks are. They are the scum of the earth. They feed into the corporate machine that tells them what to like, and to ignore the rape of America. All the while swilling Busch Lite in a can and actually thinking that Larry-The-Fartin'-Redneck-Armpits-Hanging-Out-Bald-Reatrd-Guy is funny while also cheering Nascar while the republicans rape us and kill the middle-class in this country. It's sad. F- you, bro.....stop sticking up for the dumbing down of America. It has to stop.

[–] woolo 16 years ago

"You almost had a point......but David Cross does not suck." In your opinion.
"He was part of Mr.Show. Pure comedic genius." In your opinion. You need to stop saying that your opinions are facts.

But anyway this movie did not make me laugh it was on late one night i watched it in the back ground. It seemed rather lame. Nothing to do with intelligence i;m not smart i'm not stupid. I have a degree and a pretty average job, i just don't get this movie. Although i'm sure some of the people i studied with/worked with would, but i'd never say they were unintelligent.

[–] Stein-e 16 years ago

NO, it is not funny. But it is even less the 11th worst movie of all time.

Tu Madre Tiene Un Bigote

[–] alesisqs61 16 years ago

What will America do without Loungelizard when he's dead? I think it will crumble.

[–] itaintrite-1 16 years ago

You know.. when somebody says "retard" in every single sentence, you know there's something wrong. So what is it loungelizard? Are YOU yourself obtuse? Having trouble learning new words? Loungelizard is everything I hate about message boards. Just because you're anonymous online does not mean you have the rights to be rude and disrespectful to other people. By the way, did you know that 10 out of 9 people are mentally retarded?

Oh, and sure those DVDs are "legal". Just like those CDs that you can purchase off the streets.

[–] olaf110 16 years ago

loungelizard. your hate is big i guess. . but what makes you better than the persons you hate? it is just hate that you show here. sorry but english isent my native language. so before you start to hate my writing just remeber this. the hate against others and the disrespect of others causes many bad things. you aint better than what you hate. and this is just a little - maybe stupid -maybe funny movie for a laugh or two. calm down. it is just a movie.

[–] masherlarni 15 years ago

*beep* American fascists. not one of you can spell. you don't mistake an 'a' for an 'e' on a keyboard, unless you've got one of those 'special' ones for people with a handicap. you *beep* crack us all up with your moaning! you're not very good at admitting you have a difference of opinion are you? one of you has to be the bigger man and shut the *beep* up surely?

strike bollocks blah.

[–] olaf110 15 years ago

well well well, i regret every day, that the usa did not used nukes to kill you all. the germans did an big mistake to attack the russians and the french in the ww2. they should take you guys out. imagine arabia without oil. they still would ride the camels and *beep* them

[–] traer-2 16 years ago

100% agreed.

[–] chisoxwinin05 16 years ago

I bet alot of the people who take time outta their lives to complain about this movie are virgin vegans who drive hybrids or ride vespas with those lame ass helmets.

[–] kkthelp 16 years ago

I would tend to agree with you on that. Might I be so bold as to add that those same mentioned virgin vegan hybrid/vespa riding people might be competing comedians.

I watched this movie yesterday and might I add that, yes, at times some of the stuff where a little corny and at times I let out a laugh or two. Basically watching a movie like this is like watching a standup comedy show with the comedian doing his routine spitting out jokes and funnies throughout the feature. Some jokes make you laugh, others make you puke.

I enjoyed this feature, almost as much as the other movies he did. What grinds my gears is when virgin vegan hybrid/vespa riding people negatively comment a movie like this, but in the same sentence commend Ben Stiller/other comedians whom recently acted in similar style fart/nipple joke movies (which is his mainstay by the way).

[–] loungelizard5000 16 years ago

It's rated 1.6, and is number 17 on the bottom 100 of ALL TIME! HA! HAA HHHAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

Morons..................

[–] alesisqs61 16 years ago

However, there are movies that are soooo bad, they aren't even on the imdb.

Also....I've seen worse films by far that I made it about 10 minutes into and shut off.

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[–] loungelizard5000 16 years ago

Wow. That is really messed up. To disagree with someone over a dumb movie is one thing. But to call a complete stranger a pedophile is REALLY weird. I guess I shouldn't be suprised, coming from a Larry-The-Fat-Fake-Southern-Accented-Armpits-Hanging-Out-Guy fan. Weirdo.

[–] peteydog72 16 years ago

Whoo-hoo, gotcha. What's really messed up is you attacking anyone and everyone on these boards. Oh well, enjoy yourself, I guess this is the only way you get enjoyment in your life.

[–] AgentSands182 15 years ago

Hey loungelizard, by any chance do you think that Larry the Cable Guy's armpits hang out? or that he has a fake southern accent? I'm not sure if you've mentioned that yet. Just askin' ya know. Shutup dude, we get it, you don't like that his armpits hang out, and you are aware that he isn't really a redneck and is just playing a character. Ok, you like David Cross, good for you, everyone has their own opinions on what makes them laugh and what doesn't. My opinion, David Cross is far from funny, if you think he's funny and that's what makes you laugh, all the power to ya man. I prefer the Hedberg's Carlin's Fatel's Rickles' but that's just me, i'm not gonna insult ya or make some stupid ass observation nickname about his armpits or a character he plays. Larry The Cable Guy is not a good actor, and the movies aren't meant to be oscar material. I like his stand up, and I'm more than aware that he isn't really a redneck that he is putting on a show. But really that's what i expect for entertainment, A SHOW!!! He is playing a character, a character that has brought him lots of success, and somehow you think it's insulting to his fans to give hime a ridiculously unoriginal nickname observing the fact that he in fact does wear sleeveless shirts and that he is playing someone hes not (hmmm people don't do that in the entertainment biz do they?) Give it a rest man. You're not any kind of credible source by any means on what's funny and what's not cause the truth is different people have different tastes and find all kinds of things entertaining. Just cut out the ridiculous nickname stuff its laughable and pathetic. Thank you!

[–] Bantam_Storm 16 years ago

Do you hillbillies save up your 'shine profits to see this s hit?

Seriously now. Who really earns money working 40-60 hrs a week and uses it to provide donut cash for Dan Whitney? I couldn't conjure up a worse series of scripts or films than this. I wish I could because then I'd be rich.

Well, Dan Whitney is successfully fleecing his flock.

[–] chisoxwinin05 16 years ago

Its called download. Comes out to a total of free ninety nine.

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[–] Bored_Identity 16 years ago

I thought it was funny, too. I laughed quite a bit, actually.

I previously saw Delta Farce and thought it was just awful. I laughed uncomfortably at a couple things, but everything about it was atrocious. The acting, the writing, the location, the storyline, the direction. Awful.

So, I went in to this film really expecting that level of disappointment. This movie is not awful. There was actual acting involved! I was impressed with the supporting cast. I thought all the little one-liners Larry was making were actually funny and didn't take away from the movie too much. There was character development, even! Everything was just over-the-top enough to keep it interesting. Smartly, they chose to not focus too much on plot (for obvious reasons) and just let the dialogue and situations play out.

I think this is a good example of an actor's past sins coming back to haunt him. He annoyed too many people on TV and movies to be given a fair shake.

[–] jasonmcsween 16 years ago

Is that you, Larry?