BLUE COLLAR COMEDY TOUR

You will find plenty of genuinely good, clean humor here. Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall, Ron White and Larry the Cable Guy offer amusing, relatable stories about family, marriage, travel and everyday foolishness. The film’s comedy-concert format also gives the four friends an easygoing presence together.

But the movie is uneven in its content. Rude and raunchy material includes sexual talk, homosexual joking, body humor, foul language, portrayals of alcohol and smoking, and disrespectful jokes about women. Some Christian elements appear, including references to getting saved, the fear of God, marriage and protecting family members, but they do not outweigh the broader concerns.

If you are an adult who can exercise discernment about crude comedy, you may find enough humor to make the visit worthwhile. For children and young teens, choose something else.

BLUE COLLAR COMEDY TOUR follows Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall, Ron White and Larry the Cable Guy as they travel through the Midwest and perform their comedy sketches in Phoenix.

The film intercuts their onstage sets with fishing trips, a stop at the mall and other comic misadventures. Their material ranges from redneck vocabulary lessons and obvious-question jokes to stories about marriage, family and everyday life.

Three stars means this is an entertaining but uneven comedy concert. Much of the material is genuinely funny and clean, especially Ron White’s stories, Bill Engvall’s “Here’s your sign” routine and Jeff Foxworthy’s wordplay. The four performers also have amusing chemistry as they travel and play practical jokes.

The film is less successful when it leans into base humor and raunchy material. Its strongest sketches are relatable and clever; its weaker stretches depend on sexual, scatological or disrespectful jokes. Overall, the movie offers real laughs, but the content limits its audience.

The film’s outlook is built around comedians joking about women, drinking, being tossed out of bars and other forms of everyday misbehavior. It treats redneck humor, foolishness and irreverence as sources of entertainment. Alcohol and smoking are presented throughout the comedy sets, and some jokes make light of sexual behavior and homosexuality.

There are also a few elements that point toward Christian concerns. The comedians refer to a relative getting saved, say “God bless you” often, and mention the fear of God. The sketches also touch on the joy of longevity in marriage and the importance of protecting family members. These moments sit alongside language, sexual humor, drinking jokes and disrespectful humor about women rather than shaping the whole film’s outlook.

Scripture calls believers to let their speech be gracious and fitting: “Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt” (Colossians 4:6).

BLUE COLLAR COMEDY TOUR offers adults plenty of amusing and relatable comedy, but its crude language, sexual humor, drinking and disrespectful jokes narrow its audience considerably. If you can exercise discernment, it may be worth your time. For families with children or young teens, choose something else. WORTH THE TRIP — ADULTS ONLY.