Delta Farce

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Delta Farce takes its cue from John Kerry’s ill-advised 2006 joke to university students that they should get a good education lest they wind up in Iraq. Case in point, Larry (Larry the Cable Guy), Bill (Bill Engvall, Larry’s Blue Collar Comedy costar), and Everett (D.J. Qualls, geek first class from RoadTrip), who take respite from their failed relationships, jobs, and lives in their once-a-month stint as “weekend warriors” in the Army Reserve. Delta Farce’s one great inspiration was to literally drop these clueless sad sacks into Mexico instead of Fallujah. After much confusion, they become the not-so-magnificent three, helping besieged villagers fend off a gang of bandits led by the dread Carlos Santana (insert your own guitarist jokes). Delta Farce belongs to a mostly proud tradition of morale-building military misfit comedies, but it ranks closer to Ernest in the Army or Pauly Shore’s In the Army Now than to Buck Privates or Stripes. Delta Farce, dedicated to “the real men and women” who are serving our country, has no political agenda. It is content to engage in name-calling (“carpet-flyers” and “turds” are two we can print here), broad slapstick, decidedly un-PC ethnic stereotypes and epithets (“retarded” is used as a punchline on several occasions), and the occasional gross-out gag (the always reliable urine-in-a-canteen bit). The usually menacing Danny Trejo (Con Air) steals the film outright (which in this case is petty theft) as the karaoke-singing Carlos. But for Larry the Cable guy fans, and those who miss the sophisticated good ol’ boy humor of Smokey and the Bandit (whose theme song is to this movie what Wagner’s “Flight of the Valkyries” was to Apocalypse Now), Delta Farce may just “git r done.” –Donald Liebenson

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Down on his luck after losing his job and his girlfriend on the same day, Larry decides to join his neighbor, Bill, and his combat-happy buddy, Everett, 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, 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, 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.