After taking the world of fine dining by storm in "Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector," Larry the Cable Guy joins Bill Engvall... (more)

After taking the world of fine dining by storm in "Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector," Larry the Cable Guy joins Bill Engvall and DJ Qualls in Lionsgate's "Delta Farce," a hilarious new comedy about three blue collar heroes on the military's front line. Down on his luck after losing his job and his girlfriend on the same day, Larry decides to join his neighbor, Bill (Bill Engvall), and his combat-happy buddy, Everett (DJ Qualls), for a relaxing weekend of drinking and target practice. But when the three hapless guys are mistaken for Army Reservists by the hard-nosed Sergeant Kilgrove (Keith David), they're loaded onto an army plane headed for Fallujah, Iraq – and mistakenly ejected in a Humvee somewhere over Mexico. Convinced they're actually in the Middle East, the clueless wannabe soldiers save a rural village from a siege of bandits and become local heroes. But when Carlos Santana (Danny Trejo), a ruthless, karaoke-loving warlord, strikes back, Larry, Bill and Everett have to lay down their beers and take up their arms – and prove they just might be real soldiers after all...  (close)

The satire of pre-Oscar nomination buzz in Hollywood is far and away the broadest comedy Christopher Guest and his improvisatory... (more)

The satire of pre-Oscar nomination buzz in Hollywood is far and away the broadest comedy Christopher Guest and his improvisatory company have made. Despite its abundant merriment, it is also the flimsiest, and unlike Mr. Guest’s earlier films has no airs of being a fake documentary. As farce trumps satire, the humor’s subversive edge is lost, along with meaningful character development except for the brilliant exception of Catherine O’Hara. — Stephen Holden, The New York Times  (close)