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Delta Farce
Lions Gate Films

Delta Farce reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 17 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
4.5 out of 10
based on 15 reviews
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for crude and sexual humor

Starring Larry The Cable Guy, Bill Engvall, DJ Qualls, Marisol Nichols, and Danny Trejo

A comedy about three blue collar heroes on the military's front line in Iraq. (Lionsgate)


GENRE(S): Action  |  Adventure  |  Comedy  
WRITTEN BY: Bear Aderhold
Tom Sullivan
 
DIRECTED BY: C.B. Harding  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: September 4, 2007 
Theatrical: May 11, 2007 
RUNNING TIME: 90 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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50
Variety John Anderson
If three of "The Magnificent Seven" had been Gomer Pyle, the result might have looked like Delta Farce, a movie rife with fat, fart and Fallujah jokes, but with a subcutaneous wit that has a lot to do with Iraq war fatigue.
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40
LA Weekly Luke Y. Thompson
You could make a case that any movie in which Mexicans and rednecks become best of friends is a net positive for society. But to do that, you'd have to ignore the severe boredom that sets in about halfway through this comedy.
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38
New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Dreadfully unfunny.
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30
The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck
The hilariously dirty insult comic Lisa Lampanelli shows up all too briefly as Engvall's shrewish wife.
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30
The New York Times Andy Webster
Perhaps the people most insulted are white Southerners, who presumably are expected to embrace one whopping brain-dead metaphor.
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25
TV Guide Ken Fox
Overall the movie is too stupid to offend any but the most sensitive viewer.
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25
Boston Globe Ty Burr
Consider this the sequel to "Ernest in the Army " that the late Jim Varney never got around to making. It's not very good but at least it's not evil.
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25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Michael Harris
Delta Farce is so relentlessly racist (and homophobic), without ever having the intelligence to pass that bigotry off as satire, that viewers will be left thinking "Borat" has a soft touch.
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25
New York Post Kyle Smith
Larry the Cable Guy channels both Moe and Curly in the Three Stooges-go-to-war comedy Delta Farce.
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25
San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub
A mindless comedy where the blatant racial stereotypes are outnumbered only by the flatulence jokes. The best thing that can be said about this movie is it falls just short of being an international incident.
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25
Premiere Peter Debruge
One of those celebrations of idiocy that never seem to go out of vogue.
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16
The Onion (A.V. Club) Steven Hyden
The worst thing about Delta Farce is its overall feeling of contempt--for the filmmaking process, for common decency, and, most despicably, for the audience.
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16
Entertainment Weekly Scott Brown
Here's a sobering thought: If every war gets the comedy it deserves, could Delta Farce, a strenuously unfunny "Three Amigos" knockoff, be our M*A*S*H?
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0
Austin Chronicle Marrit Ingman
But is it funny? Not really.
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0
Film Threat Michael Ferraro
If Director C.B. Harding's intention was to make one of the worst films in recent memory, congratulations are in order.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 4.5 (out of 10) based on 22 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Steve M. gave it a0:
The fact that "get 'er done" captivated middle America is enough to not watch this movie.

Clint H. gave it a7:
While it's not as bad as you hear it is, The raunchier gags in Delta Farce leave something to be desired.

Shana K. gave it a3:
I love Larry the Cable Guy, but this movie was weak and it only had the intermittent comedy moments that you would expect from Larry and Bill.

William B. gave it a5:
It made me laugh a few times, and was harmless, and I didn't expect more than that.

Galen H. gave it a0:
Who the f.ck looks at these kinds of scripts and goes "Yeah, we can fund this." I blame the studios almost as much as I blame the writers. I also hate Larry the Cable Guy, and southerners, but that's another story.

Chris M. gave it a10:
Silly fun like the Airplane and Naked Gun movies! I laughed through the whole movie!

Bill B. gave it a2:
The only advice that's needed before you see this movie is to leave your brain at home before you go. This mindless comedy is probably the biggest waste of time any movie will give you and the bad acting is almost unbearable. the only thing that saved this movie is a couple of witty lines, but other than that this is just a terrible movie. Now I know why Jeff Foxworthy wasn't in this!

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