“Where are the weapons of mass destruction?”
Bill Engvall, Larry the Cable Guy, and D.J. Qualls are in the Army now, well the reserves at least. They find themselves called to duty in Iraq, but the country they end up in is more in line with refried beans than Fallujah.
Larry (Larry the Cable Guy), Bill (Bill Engvall), and Everett (D.J. Qualls) are in the Army reservists are called to duty, to their great disappointment. It’s not exactly a great comfort to Sgt. Kilgore (Keith David) who’s never seen a more motley crew. They’re on the plane to Iraq when they decide to move to more comfortable quarters in one of the Hummers.
A storm causes the plane crew to dump all of the equipment out the back of the plane to keep it from crashing with our boys snoozing inside. They wake up in the desert thinking they’re in Iraq but in reality are in the Mexican desert. They come across some villagers who take them back to their village because they’re under siege by banditos (led by Carlos Santana (Danny Trejo)). So when the boys figure out that they’re across the wrong border they decide to protect the village.
Imagine a cross between Three Amigos and the Magnificent Seven, just not as funny. I guess it earns point in the redneck department by using Jerry Reed’s East Bound and Down (and I thought that was funny), but most of the jokes are an acquired taste. For each joke that works there appear to be several more that go astray. I will have to admit one thing – that I liked this one better than I did Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector – though not by much.
The film was obviously made on the cheap but it does have its moments. I suppose the sentiment is there in that they have a title card at the end that dedicates the film to the brave men and women in the military, but I do hope that the troops found it funnier than I did. Maybe they did.
Larry the Cable Guy seems to have improved a bit, but it might be more the fact that he shares the screen instead of being the star of the show. Bill Engvall is a likeable fellow and D.J. Qualls looks like he has a massive tapeworm.
Delta Farce is presented in anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1) and enhanced for 16x9 televisions. A fullscreen version is available separately. Special features include a commentary with director C.B. Harding. There are also the featurettes “Hacienda Confidential,” “All the way to… LA?,” “The Queen of Mean Gets the Last Word,” and “The Man Behind Carlos Santana.”
I guess their heart was in the right place and it was an attempt to entertain the troops (and hopefully it did), but it just doesn’t achieve the comedic heights that it could’ve hit.
There are a few bits that hit, but for every one of those there are a few that miss the mark. It’ll make you laugh if it strikes you in the right mood, but just like Chinese food you’ll be hungry for laughs in an hour.
Delta Farce is now available at Amazon . As of yet, there is not a release date for the UK. Visit the DVD database for more information.
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