“Delta Farce” (Lionsgate)
All Comedies Are Not Funny
There is an audience out there for movies like “Delta Farce.” They are the people who think anything that features Bill Engvall or Larry the Cable Guy is going to be full of laughs. And the dumber the humor, the better. Well humor doesn’t get much dumber than that included in “Delta Farce” which stars Engvall and Larry so the people who like this stuff are going to be very, very happy.
Bill (Engvall), Larry (Larry the Cable Guy) and Everett (DJ Qualls) are members of the same Army Reserves Unit. One weekend when they are pulling their reserve duty they meet their new Master Sergeant. His name is Kilgore (Keith David) and he is a gung ho type of guy. He informs these three men their unit has been activated and is being sent to Iraq.
On the flight to Iraq the three men are asleep in a vehicle that is jettisoned during a storm. They end up in a desert area they think is Iraq, but in actuality it is Mexico. Somehow Sgt. Kilgore also ends up in the desert (it is that kind of movie).
The rest of the movie has this quartet of brainpower fighting off banditos led by Carlos Santana (Danny Rejo). He and his men terrorize a village in which lives a beauty named Maria (Marisol Nichols). She and Larry strike up a friendship.
Nothing in this movie is funny, but most of it is silly. You go from the extreme of having Everett take on a monster wrestler in the ring to Kilgore being tortured by having to sing “I Got You, Babe” to a member of Santana’s band of men.
Engvall, Larry and Qualls are all excruciatingly bad. They look as though they are reading their lines off cue cards. And seeing poor Nichols having to have romantic scenes with Larry is enough to make you toss your popcorn. Nichols has a featured role on “24” this year and it makes good use of her talent. She doesn’t deserve to be stuck in trash like this.
The movie is rated PG-13 for profanity and crude humor.
When Bill Engvall and Larry the Cable Guy are on the scene usually Jeff Foxworthy is lurking somewhere. To his credit he had the good sense to stay clear of this movie. He is nowhere to be seen which proves he is smarter than a fifth grader.
I scored “Delta Farce” a jokes on you 3 out of 10.
