a review of 乌龙保镖

TheQuietGamer
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乌龙保镖 - 评论

Leagues better than Health Inspector, but another example of how poorly Larry the Cable Guy's juvenile brand of southern humor translates from stand-up to film. On top of being painfully unfunny it's also poorly made. Looking more like a made-for-TV movie than something that was released in theaters. Aside from a blatantly racist verbal assault made on Gerry Bednob and the casual objectification of it's female characters, this is notably less offensive and in better taste than Health Inspector. The comedy isn't any smarter though. The jokes still boil down to a bunch of bodily function and gross out gags, but at least we're not suffering through watching Larry ridicule the handicapped and homosexual. You can tell the original intention was for Ivana Miličević to be Larry's love interest, but the writers dropped the ball by including Jenny McCarthy's character, who I'm convinced is only here as an excuse to make the "big-titted and quick-witted" joke. Having her play as Larry's girlfriend backed them into a corner so the creepy Stockholm syndrome romance that would have otherwise been here mercifully never comes into fruition. He still tries to woo Miličević though and it's awkward and uncomfortable to watch. The plot is needlessly convoluted and riddled with gaps in logic. It starts off with the simple premise of delivering a witness to Chicago while dodging crooked FBI agents, but then blows up to include some weird scenarios involving faking a death and playing sports with the guy trying to kill them to gain his trust or something. I don't know. I had kind of already lost interest by the time all that stuff started to happen so it made less sense to me than it otherwise would have. The one highlight of the movie is Peter Stormare. Who appears to be having a blast hamming it up with a faux accent as the film's big baddie. His talents are wasted here. Fans of Larry the Cable Guy's stand-up specials are better off watching The Blue Collar Comedy Tour again. Turns out actually watching him fart isn't as amusing as hearing him talk about farting. The whole country boy out of his depth setup is of course just an excuse to throw shade at northerners and the movie was ahead of its time in ranting about liberals. All of which might have been more forgivable had any of it been clever. Instead it's lazy and boring.