Worst Movie Ever

Yesterday I stayed home from work because I was sick. I decided to get a movie on Pay-Per View, "Larry The Cable Guy: Heath Inspector". What a waste of $3.99 that was. This movie was terrible on so many levels. I'm a fan of Larry's stand-up comedy, but this movie didn't even come close. I didn't laugh once. It was like Larry trying to do a remake of "Ace Venture: Pet Detective" only with him playing a health inspector instead of a pet detective. What made Jim Carey great in Ace Ventura was his improvisational ability and becoming a character that is dumb but affable. In the case of Larry, everything seemed canned and rehearsed to the point where even the actors didn't think it was funny any longer and he never endears you to his character. In fact I was actually hoping that he'd get some kind of intestinal infection and let his co-stars pick up the slack.

"Larry The Cable Guy: Health Inspector" was also offensive on many levels. Whether he knowingly did it or not, he offended women, blacks, Arabs, Jews, mentally disabled, and physically disabled. I can't even understand how the women actors in the film put up with all the misogynistic sewage.

What's funny about Larry's stand-up act is that he plays a stupid guy that's making irreverent observations on life. He makes stupid racist comments and misogynist comments in his stand-up routine and the audience excuses it because he's playing the stereotypical redneck. In this movie, Larry plays like he's smarter than or on par with all the "intelligent" characters (I use that term loosely) and that's what makes his routine offensive.

Larry, no, this ain't Russia. It's the U.S.A. We've come a long way since women's suffrage and civil-rights. I usually agree with your political point-of-view, but this movie only deprecates any intelligible message you might have conveyed.

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