Larry The Cable Guy: Health Inspector Movie
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They'll Give Anyone A Badge.
Irreverent as ever, Larry The Cable Guy plays a big city health inspector who's happy with his usual beat of greasy spoon diners and low-rent ethnic restaurants. His easygoing life is turned upside-down when he's saddled with a straight-arrow rookie partner (Iris Bahr) and assigned the biggest case of his career: investigating an outbreak of mysterious food poisonings at the city's swankiest restaurants. Infuriating restaurateurs with his bad manners, Larry still manages to charm a sweet, shy waitress (Megyn Price) into a budding romance. But when his unorthodox methods cost him his job, Larry has to go undercover to bring the conspirators to justice and 'Git-R-Done!'
| Larry The Cable Guy | Larry |
| David Koechner | Donnie |
| Michael Papajohn | Diner Manager |
| Thomas F. Wilson | Bart Tatlock (as Tom Wilson) |
| Brooke Dillman | Brenda |
| Joanna Cassidy | Lily Micelli |
| Arian Waring Ash | Lingerie Store Manager (as Arian Ash) |
| Trent Cooper |
2.40 out of 10 (5120 votes)
Visitor Reviews
plain humor, dumb, stupid, and I laughed so hard I cracked a rib
posted on 16 Aug 2009I went to see Larry the cable guy last week with my son. we both thought it was extremely funny. we are not red necks and both have very high I.Q.'s, but this was a great break from the normal movies we see together. I think as far as funny movies go it was one of the best. the whole theater was in stitches the whole movie. their are a few slow parts, and the plot gets kind of confusing, but I have to say I find Larry in this movie very funny, even though I am not a fan of his stand up.it's funny how many people write that don't like this movie. I guess they are the ones who go see the stupid horror and demonic films out their not to mention the filth that Hollywood puts out.So if you want to see a good clean movie go see Larry the cable guy's new one. peeing in the shower and all.
The Funniest Movie
posted on 21 Jul 2009I do not understand why others thought this movie was a bust. My husband and I attended this movie 3 weeks after it was over on a tuesday evening and the whole screening room was packed! Throughout the entire movie all you could hear was laughter one person almost fell out in the floor laughing so hard. My husband does not laugh at a lot, and he laughed the entire movie. I laughed so much that my stomach and cheeks hurt. If people watch the blue collar comedy tour they know that Larry speaks a lot about gas and "redneck" things, so exactly what were they expecting out of the movie? Roses? Anyhow I thought it was the funniest movie I have ever seen. I cannot wait for it to come out on DVD.
Don't bother to go - wait to watch at home
posted on 09 Jul 2009This movie reminded me of Jim Carrey's Movie The Cable guy which was horrible at theater to the point where you were mad at the money you wasted but was OK 2 years later when you watched it on HBO at home.The plot line is very thin and drags on for way too long. There are some very funny scenes but they are far fetched and very unlikely for a movie. Basically its a over the top flick that tries too hard. If you were willing to pay to see the Naked gun movies at a theater than go you will probably be entertained.I must also add for the record I am a big fan of Larry's, I really like his stand up comedy and even own a CD or two,but in a movie theater it sucked.Again it is somewhat funny so do watch it at home or on pay per view for $3 but it is not worth $7 per person plus popcorn at the local theater.
what the...
posted on 07 Jul 2009Makes When a Stranger Calls and Big Mommas House look like The God Father and Lord of the Rings the Return of the King This movie is so freaking bad, Oh My God it's so awful, i would rather watch Glitter and CrossRoads for 40000 years straight, this is not funny at all it's so crap...the acting is like what the hell is this aboutGrazzies here we come....0.1/10Actually watching paint dry in comparison is like watching The Godfather So bad...actually it was 0/10
Deceiving Trailer
posted on 07 Jul 2009Boy, was this film awful. I knew nothing about Larry, the Cable Guy until I clicked onto a preview on the web. The preview was hilarious! It was my type of low-brow humor and I thought this is going to be a funny film. However, after I go to the theater and the picture started to play, I felt I was really duped by the trailer. Whereas the trailer was tightly edited to give great timing to the jokes, the film was edited with no regards to proper timing of set-up and punch lines. There were even added scenes in the trailer that didn't exist in the film. This was one of those films that I had to leave early from. I could not take anymore after 40 minutes.
There is nil to recommend about this movie.
posted on 01 Jul 2009Not only is this is devoid of laughs, it's boring, and uninteresting. You know a movie is in trouble when even the title is messed up. What's his profession? is he a cable guy or health inspector. Seems it's the latter, though Larry himself is a walking health violation. Prehaps, that's part of the joke. Larry's the kind of guy who angers his boss to no end (played by Biff Tannen himself), believes his new partner to a guy, pees in the shower, has a mentally challenged soccer player for a neighbor, and basically acts like an idiot. So, when some of the swankiest restaurants in town run into food poisoning, its' up to Larry and his partner to get to the bottom of things, and prove that even though he may seem dumb, he always gets his man. Really, this film is little more than a vehicle for the low-brow humor Larry The Cable Guy relishes. It's also a vehicle that breaks down repeatedly, and gets really awful mileage before ending at the bottom of a ravine. It's just not funny. There's stupid funny, i.e. Anchorman, and there's unfunny stupid, i.e. Alone in the Dark. This may sound harsh, but there is nil to recommend about this movie. Acceptable acting, writing, direction, competence, all absent. Tagline should have read: "They'll Give Anyone A Movie." The truth hurts.Rating: 1/2 (out of ****)
Beyond low brow comedy runs out of steam after 15 minutes and is only sporadically worth seeing after that
posted on 27 Jun 2009Hamlet its not.Funny it is, in the lowest of the low sort of way. Its fart jokes (and worse) galore and if you hate them stay away.The plot has Larry getting a new partner and being assigned the ritzy restaurant beat by the mayor. Of course its a set up and of course in the end Larry comes riding to the rescue.The problem is that after about 15 or 20 minutes the laughs stop as the plot really kicks in. There are jokes after 15 minutes just not that many good ones, even of the fart related variety. Actually by the half hour mark the movie becomes rather dull in a been there done that, why aren't there more jokes sort of way. While I don't think that the movie is the worst ever made, it is a disappointment simply because it runs out of steam so early on.Not worth paying for at any time, it is worth seeing when it finally makes it to cable where you can see the funny bits endlessly with out having to waste your money.3 out of 10
For Larry The Cable Guy Fans, you should see this before they take the Browns to the Super Bowl
posted on 09 Jun 2009Unlike the very first reviewer, I confess that I never played college baseball with Larry the Cable Guy at Boston College or anywhere else. I did have a pretty tough week this week, and in celebration of the fact that I work some long and crazy hours I did my every other week Friday Matinée movie expecting some really crude, baseless, and thoroughly stupid humor.I was not disappointed.Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector is a reasonably competent movie vehicle for Dan "Larry the Cable Guy" Whitney, allowing for the fact that it is rife with all the flatulent, politically incorrect, crude, redneck, and every other kind of socially unredeeming humor we have come to know him for within his solo stand-up and "Blue Collar Comedy Tour" career.The whole crux of this film revolves around Larry's job as a restaurant health department inspector who happens to be offending virtually every one in his path and screwing up at his job. To correct his ways or end his career, he is allied with a new partner, the virtually hermaphrodic Amy Butlin (played by suitably hermaphrodic nerd-turned-comedienne Iris Bahr). What ensues is a caper in which Larry finds a love interest, belittles his partner, laughs at his retarded neighbor, abuses a phony paraplegic, wrestles a uni-browed daughter of a crooked restaurateur, degrades all manner of human life, all while trying to solve the case of serial food poisoning. We are also treated to what Jerry Mathers looks like at the end of his career and to what became of Thomas F. Wilson (remember Biff Tannen?) as if he actually had a career as a quasi-straight (don't you think that's funny, I called Biff straight?) guy for Larry's gaffs.Sound interesting? Of course not, but every crude one-liner in Larry's repertoire (new and old) is balanced against a sometimes funny sometimes lame plot. There is enough of "Cable Guy" humor and off-beat timing to laugh at, even some things the P.C. police would send you straight to Hell for. Ample fresh material exists to keep the not-so-funny lines from keeping the average Cable Guy fan from disliking this movie.Anyone expecting any more or less of Health Inspector is probably not a Larry the Cable Guy fan, and certainly should not see this film. If you are, however, and you just want to see about 90 minutes of absolutely insolent yet funny bathroom-style garbage disguised as humor, then by all means "Git 'er DUN" and see this film. It could be worse, of course, but comeonn….it's Larry The Cable Guy, NOT Shakespeare.4 out of 10 for a comedy like this means it is B-style humor worth seeing if you understand the brand of humor being presented. I did take a shower afterward though.
A Laugh a Minute!
posted on 28 May 2009Very funny! From start to about the last ten minutes, last ten minutes kinda drags by, but then the credits outtakes do it justice. In order to watch this movie be very perceptive and look past the actors as well for other gimmicks included in the movie. Lots of one-liners to keep everybody laughing. All of the actors do a great job I believe in this show, and even those not so "new" to the scene. Larry in Bible College? When does Larry the Cable Guy "Pastor" come out? That would be a hoot. Sit back have fun and prepare to laugh, especially at Larry's soon to be mother-in-law. I couldn't stop laughing through out the entire show, have fun.
Dickweed. Dickweed. Dickweed!
posted on 18 May 2009There was absolutely no way that I was going to approach this film as a comedy. Anyone who dresses like Larry the Cable Guy cannot possibly be funny. Pathetic? yes, I'll give you that, but not funny.I saw that it was filmed in Orlando and it was about a Florida Health Inspector. So, I looked upon it as a documentary about checking out all those folks that sell boiled peanuts on the side of the road. Have you seen those things? People actually put them in their mouth! 89 minutes of farting, bathroom jokes, and a whole bunch of derogatory remarks about women, those with developmental disabilities, gays and lesbians, you get it. This is the same thing that you find in the small minds of people who watch NASCAR. I am sure they are the biggest fans of this movie. Not one laugh in 89 minutes.Ties with Beerfest as one of the lamest excuses for use of film stock that I have ever experienced.
Academy Award Winner - No, Funny -Yes!
posted on 12 May 2009OK, so this is not going to win any awards for being a great movie or a great screenplay, or pretty much a great anything. However, if you like Larry the Cable Guy and redneck humor you're going to love this film. It is Larry at his best. It is predictable and filled with some of Larry's classics, fart jokes, his sister, being a redneck, playing dumb. But hey that is what Larry is all about. If you do not like Larry's stand up routines or Blue Collar Comedy routines you will not enjoy this film. In the genre of dumb comedy, this is one of the best. All-in-all, if you want a great laugh this will do it if you want to see a great film rent Doctor Zhivago.
Actually kind of entertaining
posted on 02 May 2009After reading the reviews on this site I was sure that this movie was going to be absolutely horrible. I thought the movie was crude but funny. Obviously if you've ever listed to Larry the Cable Guy's comedy, he makes plenty of fart jokes and isn't afraid of the tasteless. The movie is pretty much more of the same. It had decent characters and even though the plot wasn't Academy Award winning, it was more than what I expected.Bottom line, if you didn't like Larry the Cable Guy before this movie, you probably won't like him after watching it. If you think redneck jokes are funny, you'll enjoy it. If you're one of those people who are easily offended or overly political correct, you might as well not bother.
Great fun for Larry the Cable Guy fans!
posted on 28 Apr 2009I was slightly hesitant to check out this movie, since I read a boatload of terrible reviews on this site. I expect bad reviews from critics, I expect bad reviews from those who despise Larry the Cable Guy--but I don't expect bad reviews from fans of Larry. Even most of the people who enjoy his comedy didn't like the film. But I finally picked up the DVD and lo and behold, I was laughing...a lot. The plot is no gem, but that didn't bother me. This wasn't meant to be an intelligent, plot-driven comedy. It was meant to be a comedy vehicle for Larry, and as that, it succeeds. Sure, the humor is low-brow and there are plenty of toilet gags. What the hell do you expect? Have you ever seen Larry's stand-up? I can't deny that I wasn't laughing out loud when Larry was on the John, couldn't find any toilet paper, and uses a towel to wipe himself. And as I hoped, the movie contains plenty of the comedians hilarious one-liners. So if you're not a fan, stay away! Nobody's forced you to watch the damn movie! If you, like me, are a fan--then enjoy the show. The movie is not pretentious. It doesn't try to be anything more than a brainless comedy flick. I was feeling in a terrible mood when I watched the movie, and it definitely cheered me up. I'm sorry, but if I'm in a bad mood, I'd much rather watch "Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector" than "Gone with the Wind." The actors all seem to be having fun, even veteran character Joe Pantoliano (who bares a striking resemblance to Clint Howard in the film). The lead actress is cute, there are several cool songs in the soundtrack (including "I Want to Know What Love Is" by Foreigner). I have very few complaints. Whether they admit it or not, every person at least sporadically craves to just check their brains at the door, kick back with a couple beers, and watch a low-brow comedy of this nature. I appreciate great films like "Crash" or "American Beauty" or "Goodfellas." Just because I can enjoy a movie of this sort doesn't make me a Neanderthal.
I love Larry but...
posted on 08 Apr 2009Larry the Cable guy is a very funny comic but his movie is awful. It is very gross (lots of farting). There are funny parts that will make you laugh. Overall it is very silly. The plot is simple to figure out - who done it!In some scenes you can see the microphone hanging down - now that is a low budget flick! Unless you a hardcore Larry fan don't waste your money going to see it, this is a movie to rent at best. If you like Larry catch him on TV, many of the same jokes are used in the movie.I would much rather see an Ernest movie. They are a lot funnier.
Git R Done!
posted on 31 Mar 2009Larry the Cable Guy is downright hilarious in this film. This film will be an awesome treat for fans, and, yes, it's gross humor. There's a very funny bathroom scene, among other things. Larry is a wonderful comedian, and my sides hurt from laughing so hard at several points during the movie. In this film, Larry is a city health inspector, and he lives in a junky house in this film. He has a neighbor who is a retard. One thing that I found refreshing was that this film was sort an of anti-Brokeback Mountain. With homosexuality being glorified everywhere you go, it's refreshing to see a movie where it is put in its place. Because of general hilariousness, and because of Larry's position on the issue I mentioned above, I will make a point of seeing any future movies he makes, on opening weekend. With all the trash that's come out of Hollywood lately, it's nice to have a movie that's actually worth the price of a ticket.
The worst and most harmful movie ever made
posted on 21 Mar 2009Lately I've been talking a lot of garbage to people about "Larry The Cable Guy: Health Inspector". I hadn't seen it, but with only the cursory knowledge and awareness of the title character's/personality's brand of humor, I felt I could write it off as just being forgettably terrible. But with some free time this weekend, I figured that it would be wrong to dismiss anything without actually experiencing it. Well, I was wrong, and I'm sorry, Mr.... err.... Mr. Guy. It was wrong to just write off "Health Inspector". This movie is not forgettable.Congratulations, "Boondock Saints". Here I was, thinking you were the most puerile, vapid, idiotic, offensive movie in existence. But no: the worst film I have ever seen has no competition, and it is "Larry The Cable Guy: Health Inspector", number one with a bullet. Never before have I had any experience this soul-deadening, this harmful, trafficking in all forms of disgust and hate. "Health Inspector" is a hate crime, possibly the most vile ever perpetrated on the American public. If Donald Rumsfeld scaled back the torture budget in these international containment camps and just made suspected terrorists view "Larry The Cable Guy", it wouldn't be halfway into the film before we finally had the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden. Here Lionsgate is, presumptuous enough to charge money for this experience when I wouldn't wish it upon a hundred Hitlers.The plot, as is, never ever mentions Larry as being a cable guy, although he seems to be playing his familiar on-stage persona, complete with catchphrase "Git-R-Done," which he says to the camera in the film's last moment, a final "Screw you, you saw this movie " Here, he plays a health inspector who always succeeds despite his slovenly ways, getting wrapped up in a food-poisoning mystery instigated by the town's evil mayor. Oops, spoiler warning.Along the way, he is unclean and unkempt, and speaks like the ignorant redneck that he projects himself to be in his act, expending the film's entire budget on fart sound effects. $7 million worth of people last weekend (and a few more this weekend) spent their hard earned money on watching Larry the Cable Guy fart through a less-than-90 minute film. Along the way he romances cute character actress Megyn Price- after playing wife to Donal Logue for three years on "Grounded For Life", I imagine the price of crack's been risen, as she plays a character that somehow falls for this fat, ugly, retarded hick. Dame Judi Dench couldn't be convincing in this role. The only other major woman role in this film, aside from a wine baroness who has a penchant for disgusting internet sex with Joe Pantaliano, is Larry's partner, an androgynous, homely woman whom, through a running gag, is referred to by Larry as a boy. She is put upon and mocked by Larry the entire film, to the point where an appropriate character arc for her would be to end the film putting eight bullets into his skull. Alas, she grows to love him, and her character rises above her ridicule and earns her keep when Larry finally owns up and calls her a girl. This movie hates women a lot less than it hates Asians, Muslims and other various assorted races.Maybe this whole thing is a calculated act of aggression-based confrontation comedy. Maybe this is meant to test your boundaries, and redefine what you think is offensive. Consider a moment when, to distract someone, Larry dresses up by placing a dinner cloth over his head, draped over his shoulders, with shades and a hat, emerging into the frame slumped over and his hands together, praying, as he affects a Middle Eastern accent, going, "Lulululululululu " You might initially think it was the most horrendous, tasteless exploitation of a Middle East lifestyle in history, but the scene happens in a mixed-race kitchen, and therefore his being from the Middle East has no context. What if he was just performing a baseless silly character without roots in any culture, and my own Eurocentrism claimed his character possessed traits of a Middle Easterner? What if Larry, in effect, is saying I'm the racist for assuming that? Well, considering one of the laugh lines in this film is Larry referring to an Indian restaurant as having "immigrant food", then Larry the Cable Guy is worse than AIDS.And like AIDS, the movie should be treated with caution. Please, this is important, I beg of you- if you have a friend, family member, loved one who might be considering watching "Larry The Cable Guy: Health Inspector", please do everything in your power to stop them. This film will only cause irrevocable harm towards everyone and spread an acceptable attitude of racism, sexism and homophobia. It is up to you, not as a film-goer, or as an educated person, but as a HUMAN BEING, to make sure this film doesn't infect anyone you might know. I repeat, keep everyone you know away from this film, and you'll be doing your part to make this world a better place. And if they do happen to experience this film, act cautiously towards them, but know that they'll never recover that shred of humanity- paying $10 to see this film erases any humanitarian act anyone may accomplish, and is a mark that shall be forever held above their head.
Get 'er DUMB ;-)
posted on 19 Mar 2009I'll start by saying this...I've seen worse...much worse...But notwithstanding, this movie was horrible. But more "Freddy Got Fingered" horrible, not "From Justin to Kelly" horrible.The good: The plot is there, and is easy to follow. It's not one of those movies where you keep asking yourself "why did that happen?" The jokes are funny in a low-brow way (VERY low-brow). Heck the first 5 minutes sets the pace for the whole movie, from Larry's butt crack to the "yellow river" in the shower (kids, say NO to "crack"). :) The comedy is so horrifically stupid it's entertaining (hence my reference to Freddy Got Fingered).The bad: Everything else! Just about every race, gender, handicap, body size, and anything else commonly discriminated against is humorously referenced in this film! Nothing is sacred. If you're easily offended by....heck anything...don't watch!Bottom line: If you switch your brain off...way off...you should be mind-numbingly entertained for 90 minutes. Just don't take anything too seriously.Final verdict 3/10 (or one star out of four).
Like Shakespeare
posted on 11 Mar 2009There are those that recoil in terror at the seemingly repetitive themes in Larry the Cable Guy's major works, I respectfully digress that all great movies are about life and death, fear and triumph, love and loss. We must ask ourselves, is our life such as a catfish scented Igloo cooler? I say that it is. After all, is it not the basis of life, to worry about such troubling issues as to hang out with Kid Rock, or slobber over Pamela Anderson Lee whatever her last name is this year? Layer upon layer of intricate meaning, tackling other bothersome societal ills such as inbreeding, juvenile delinquent behavior well into adulthood, and even the perennial question "Who farted?". Indeed. Well thought out, Larry the Cable guy. You truly are a deep observer of humanity.
Wretched Funk
posted on 13 Feb 2009I make it a habit to not watch movies that dumb rednecks like. I'm just picky that way. I hate Nascar, too. Driving around in a circle is something dumb rednecks do. This guy is a moron. He smells and is inbred. If you watch this movie, you probably (but not definitely) are a douche. Sorry. Maybe you can't help it, but it still wouldn't have made this movie good. Read some Zinn or Chomsky, go see V for Vendetta, then sit in a room and wonder why your bum has been sore for most of your life.I feel sorry for you if you watched this movie or are reading this, but there is hope. I hear this will be released in a triple pack with Passion of the Christ and the best of Championship Wrestling. Awesome!
Movie isn't worth the paper the poster is printed on!
posted on 30 Aug 20098 pages of reviews but I still had to comment! This is the first time I have ever posted a review in all the years I have been coming to IMDb for my movie information. I was compelled to vent on how miserable this movie was.I saw the movie Primer (good movie) and listened to the cast and crew tracks where they are talking about borrowing and renting equipment and having all their friends and family make food for them while they were shooting and how they had to make props by themselves and had to borrow money to market it, then I see Larry the cable guy, Health Inspector, and I see so much money totally wasted on such a worthless endeavor! Where do I start? The acting was terrible.The story predictable, anyone who couldn't figure out within 10 minutes of the title sequence that the wheelchair guy was involved is probably the kind of person that gave this movie more than 1 star.Yeah, right, a total loser like Larry gets a girl with all her teeth and less than 300lbs...Only in Hollywood, only in Hollywood.Larry needs to stay on the Blue Collar Comedy tour where he can hide behind the other talented comedians and throw out an amusing one liner once in a while....that way no one has to fund another escapade like this again! Don't see this, don't rent this, and I am with the guy that says if you find any evidence of this movie in public, take it out and burn it! Git' er' done!