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Delta Farce (2007)

Reviewed by Scott Brown | May 16, 2007

Scott Brown

Scott Brown writes the Hit List for EW and is a frequent contributor to National Public Radio -- he has the tote bag to prove it

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EW's GRADE

D-

Details Release Date: May 11, 2007; Rated: PG-13; Length: 90 Minutes; Genre: Comedy; With: Bill Engvall and Larry the Cable Guy

Image credit: Sam Urdank

LARRY OF...ARABIA? The Cable Guy mistakes Mexico for Iraq in the hopelessly lost Delta Farce

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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? Larry the Cable Guy, proving his talents are best confined to tractor pulls, leads his fellow Army reservists (DJ Qualls and Bill Engvall) across Mexico in the mistaken belief that it's Iraq. The eyebrow-raising premise — that rednecks can't distinguish between brown-skinned people — is poised somewhere between vicious critique and brazenly lazy racism. Guess which way it falls?

Originally posted May 16, 2007 Published in issue #935 May 25, 2007 Order article reprints

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