WITLESS PROTECTION

Headline: ** Crude Humor Is Indeed Witless **
Title: WITLESS PROTECTION
Quality: * Acceptability: -3
SUBTITLES: None
WARNING CODES:
Language: LLL
Violence: VV
Sex: SS
Nudity: N

RATING: PG-13
RELEASE: February 22, 2008
TIME: 97 minutes
STARRING: Larry the Cable Guy, Yaphet Kotto, Ivana Milicevic, Jenny McCarthy, Peter Stormare, and Eric Roberts
DIRECTOR: Charles Robert Carner
PRODUCERS: Alan Blomquist and J. P. Williams
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Thomas J. Busch
WRITER: Charles Robert Carner
BASED ON THE NOVEL/PLAY BY: N/A
DISTRIBUTOR: Lionsgate Films

CONTENT: (PaPa, B, PC, LLL, VV, SS, N, A, D, M) Strong pagan worldview with some very light moral elements, and snobbish woman makes a politically correct comment about impeaching President George Bush; 34 obscenities, two strong profanities, three light profanities, and lots of scatological humor, including images of horse dung and man falling face first into horse dung; strong comic violence such as deputy sheriff takes witness away from federal agents who turn out to be crooked, deputy binds witness to keep her from running, pratfalls, polo game with men falling off horses, gunfire, gunshot smashes truck window, car engine falls on man's hand, man knocked out with statue, slapping and hitting, and, men fight and wrestle; no sex scenes but strong sexual references to intercourse, oral sex, petting, and masturbation; shots of female cleavage, upper male nudity and naked man gets cavity search but no rear or frontal nudity; alcohol use; smoking; and, kidnapping, stealing and corrupt FBI agent.

GENRE: Comedy
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Older teenagers and adults

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SUMMARY: WITLESS PROTECTION stars Larry the Cable Guy as a country lawman who helps a beautiful witness outwit her evil boss and a crooked FBI agent. WITLESS PROTECTION is filled with crude and lame humor, including vulgar references to sex, body parts and bodily functions.

IN BRIEF:

WITLESS PROTECTION stars Larry the Cable Guy as Deputy Larry Stalder, a country lawman who is smarter than he seems. Larry wants to become a federal lawman, but previous efforts have failed. While hanging out with his friends and his waitress girlfriend, Connie, in the local diner, he sees a beautiful city girl accompanied by men in suits and dark glasses. He thinks they might be kidnappers, so he kidnaps the girl, whose name is Madeline. Larry discovers the men are indeed FBI agents and Madeline is the only witness against her former boss, a crooked businessman named Arthur Grimsley. Even so, Larry keeps the girl, because he believes the FBI agents are not following procedure. They must be crooked, he thinks. Larry's suspicions turn out to be true. He fakes Madeline's death and infiltrates Grimsley's circle to find a computer disk supporting her testimony.

WITLESS PROTECTION is filled with crude humor, including vulgar references to sex, body parts and bodily functions. Despite all the stupidity, there are some intelligent moments where Larry displays his detective abilities and outwits the bad guys. Those moments are few and far between, however.