Metacritic Film

Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector

Starring Larry The Cable Guy, Iris Bahr, Bruce Bruce, Joanna Cassidy, Brooke Dillman, Tony Hale, David Koechner, and Lisa Lampanelli

MPAA RATING: PG-13 for crude and sexual content, and for language

Lions Gate Films
Comedy
89 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters March 24, 2006

Sporting a cut-off flannel shirt and armed with a truck-load of one-liners, Larry the Cable Guy is America's reigning king of blue-collar comedy. Larry makes his feature film debut as a big city health inspector whose life is turned upside-down when he's saddled with a straight-arrow rookie partner and assigned the biggest case of his career. (Lionsgate)

WRITTEN BY
Jonathan Bernstein
James Greer

DIRECTED BY
Trent Cooper

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

21 / 100

Critic Reviews

50 LA Weekly
It'll give fans exactly what they expect while passing unseen by anyone else.
42 Entertainment Weekly
As an expat redneck, I recognize the deep, dumb need of every group for its own culturally customized minstrel show. Larry, a junker ''star'' vehicle run on arse wind and fan love, fills that niche.
40 Variety
Entirely comfortable as the crude character he has honed in countless stand-up routines and TV appearances, Larry the Cable Guy sustains a level of likeability that enables him to get away with a lot more than he has any right to. But, he remains very much an acquired taste.
38 TV Guide
Folks watching any movie that opens with a shot of a butt crack (with the possible exception of "Lost in Translation") can't claim they weren't warned.
38 New York Daily News
Larry offers enough scatological humor to fertilize the wheat fields in the star's home state of Nebraska.
30 The Hollywood Reporter
Toilet humor, jokes about paraplegics and serious overacting make this lowbrow comedy an irritating watch.
30 Los Angeles Times
You have to be a bit of an arrested adolescent to think "Larry" is funny.
30 Chicago Reader
Though some of his one-liners are pretty good, his shtick can't sustain this dutifully scripted comedy. Megyn Price, who's done time on the sitcom Grounded for Life, is a welcome distraction as the waitress with a crush on Larry.
25 The Onion (A.V. Club)
Laughing at this turkey might not necessarily make you a redneck, but it sure does make you easily amused.
25 Boston Globe
''Health Inspector" hopes to do for Larry what ''Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" did for Jim Carrey, who in this context looks like Noel Coward.
20 The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis
Unpleasant, uncouth and painfully unfunny..
0 San Francisco Chronicle
This so-called comedy is so not funny, it makes "Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo" look like Chaplin.
0 New York Post
Virtually unwatchable and laugh-free.
0 Austin Chronicle
I give this the BOMB!

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