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That'll go down faster than a bottle of Vicodin at Courtney Love's house." American stand-up comedian, actor and former radio personality Daniel Lawrence Whitney, better known as Larry the Cable Guy, starred in his first movie back in 2006 as a slovenly cable repairman-turned municipal high-class restaurant-investigating health inspector. He was one of the members of the Blue Collar Comedy tour on Blue Collar TV, a comedy troupe which included Bill Engvall, Ron White and Jeff Foxworthy. To date Larry has starred in three Blue Collar Comedy Tour-related films: Health Inspector, Delta Farce (2007) and Witless Protection (2008), both of which I will get to reviewing later on in the near future. With his stereotypical redneck rube appearance, thick Southern accent and joke-telling of questionable taste, how does he fare from his stand-up act to the big screen? Aside from being best know as voicing Mater in the popular Cars franchise, of which came out the same year as this movie, how did this one manage to slip pass the Board of Health? Let's take a look.Larry, here playing much like himself but now as a health inspector, is an uncouth, middle-aged Moon Pie-munching bachelor living in a pig- sty of an apartment and drives an over-sized, bumper sticker-clad, exhaust-spewing pickup truck. His exasperated, no- nonsense boss Bart Tatlock (Thomas F. Wilson, of whom is best remembered as Biff from Back to the Future) is tired of Larry's ways in order of getting his duties accomplished. To have him fired, he assigns Larry with a new partner named Amy Butlin (Iris Bahr), a strict, by-the-book professional of whom takes her work quite seriously as opposed to Larry's questionable practices to his job, despite the fact that he always refers to her as a "he" or a "him" due to thinking she is a man. Iris did in fact appear in the unaired pilot for The Big Bang Theory as one of Leonard and Sheldon's university colleauges named Gilda the same year Health Inspector was released. Her character turned out to be the prototype for the later developed character Leslie Winkle (Sara Gilbert), as Gilda was thusly scrapped. No wonder she acts like a female Dr. Cooper in this movie. She tries to learn the ropes, but Larry's personality in less than tolerable. However his knowledge of vermin and disarmingly disconcerted way of interviewing witnesses and suspects slowly gets him where he needs to go. After learning of a serial criminal of whom is going around intoxicating local five-star restaurants, the duo drive off to save the town from a fatal food poisoning. It is only near the film's end where the culprit is exposed at a televised taping of Top Chef. Hilarious hijinks do not ensue.Panned by critics with a five percent on Rotten Tomatoes, the website ranked Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector #85 on its "The 100 Worst Reviewed Films Of All Time: 2000-2009" list. And after watching this, I can definitely see why. Some portions of Health Inspector are made up of Larry rattling off double-entrendes to get a point across we the audience got the first time ("I could do this all day") and enlongated fart jokes that disgust rather than get even a smirk. Even seeing Larry go undercover as a copacabana dancer near the end of the movie is unpleasant to look at, especially with his protruding girth. The supporting cast is halfway decent at least, including Joe Pantoliano (The Matrix, Memento) as Mayor Maurice T. Gunn, Tony Hale (Veep, Arrested Development) as Jack Dabbs, of whom poses as a wheelchair-bound cripple in cahoots with the bad guys (I seriously think he wanted to escape from the set near the end of the movie), Donnie (David Koechner, The Office, Anchorman), Larry's kind but dimwitted, bald but pony-tailed next- door neighbor, Joanna Cassidy as a restaurant owner, a horrifying unibrowed girl side character and Larry's blonde romantic interest Jane Whitley, a sweet, shy waitress. I was satisfied that they had the dignity not to make her a stereotypical airhead and actually quite smart. She does, unfortunately, give in to flatulence in one scene with Larry, somewhat losing her dignity as a better character. Even Kid Rock makes a cameo when Larry has a fantasy: either go fishing with him or make love to Jane. Jane comments to Larry, "Nice rod" as he holds his pole in a questionable area of his antatomy as we know what his thoughts are. But the jokes are no doubt aimed at those of whom attend Larry's stand-up act and are indeed low-class to say for the most part regarding his schtick. I didn't expect anything less upon pressing the play button, knowing I was doing it only for the criticism.With a budget of $17 million, Health Inspector only garnered back a sickly $15 million plus of its earnings back at the box office. The website consensus on Rotten Tomatoes states: "An aggressively lowbrow vehicle for its titular star, this gross-out comedy fails to "git-r-done." At least Larry was nominated the Worst Actor at the 27th Golden Raspberry Awards. Look, if you enjoy Larry and his comedy, then good for you. As for myself, the toilet humor and innuendos are needless filler just to get a cheap laugh. I think it true and wise in keeping your health by staying far away from this film of which fails on all accounts to pass inspection.

I didn't give the movie a score because I never had the chance to finish watching it. I just ran out of time this weekend.What I don't understand are the ratings and comments made with regards to this movie.What did you all expect from Larry the Cable Guy? The humour seemed right on par with all his other stuff...maybe a little bit more raunchy but it definitely was Larry.I am not saying it is a great movie, I am not saying it was a nasty movie....I am only saying it is Larry and I went into watching it knowing I would see the typical Larry stuff, and I saw typical Larry stuff!

I hate it when someone on here starts comparing a movie by stating its the "worse ever" when the reality is they have seen much worse movies and they don't possess the intellect to simply tell others the movie wasn't worth watching without admitting they at least found a part of the movie entertaining or funny. In fact, they will deny they found ANY part of the movie funny just to rant and rave about how bad it was. I choose to compare fairly. Seriously, Larry the Cable Guy needs to stick to stand-up comedy and stay out of the movie business. I can't believe the fan following he has though. I honestly think that along WITH the other redneck comedians, he's entertaining and funny, but by himself, he's truly not that funny. I saw him live at the Houston Rodeo a few years back and Houston is FULL of rednecks and Larry lovers - ESPECIALLY at the rodeo. People loved Larry anyhow, but not too many people laughed to my recollection at anything he said. Him dragging that into another movie pretty much sets the stage for a good nap. However, I couldn't give this movie a 1 because I remember laughing if only a minute chuckle at a few scenes and somehow I did manage to stay awake through the entire movie (mostly out of curiosity). However, since I've seen Going Overboard with Adam Sandler mostly because I'm an Adam Sandler fan, I've realized that Going Overboard was even a bigger disappointment with not ONE funny scene or joke in the entire movie, thus it deserved a 1 and this movie wasn't THAT bad comparatively. If you've ever seen Rubberface which was one of Jim Carrey's first movies ever, it was also a 1 rated movie in my opinion as it was not funny at all. The difference is, Adam Sandler and Jim Carey were early in their career and went on to do some of the funniest stuff EVER and these movies were poor examples of their earlier trials that did not work. The difference is Larry the Cable Guy has already "made it" as a comedian being one of the highest paid comedians over the past few years, and THEN he tries to make a movie and it of course bombed. I don't see Larry the Cable Guy ever becoming in the future in the movies anything towards the talent of Adam Sandler or Jim Carrey, no matter how many times he farts in a film.

More boobies than you can shake a stick at and plenty of commode scenes. I bet they had to bring one of them farty cows in for backup. Princess Leah looked great as a boy and I think I went to grade school with that one girl. It's got Cypher from that thar Matrix movin pitcher too.This pitcher is politicly correct. You got your retards, your asians, your homosexuals and democrats. Oh yeah and the mean guy from Back to the Future.I highly recommend you'ins watch this here movin pitcher after about a case of Pabst Blue Ribbon to fully enjoy it. I reckon.