LARRY THE CABLE GUY: HEALTH INSPECTOR
Crude, painfully unfunny comedy best left unseen.
Should You Watch It?
You should skip this one. The movie gives Larry the Cable Guy an excuse to perform his stand-up routine inside a health-inspector comedy, but the story has many deficiencies and never even flirts with being funny.
The source review also finds the humor offensive and crude, the language excessive, and the worldview pagan. Most troublingly, it finds an embarrassing lack of redemptive elements. This is not a case of a flawed comedy with a worthwhile heart; the review calls it dreadful.
The practical answer is simple: SKIP IT.
The Story
NO SPOILERS — WE KEEP THE SURPRISESLarry is a redneck health assessor who monitors the city’s low-end restaurants. His relaxed routine changes when he must train Amy, an uptight rookie he mistakenly believes is a man.
The two are then assigned to investigate mysterious food contamination at the city’s most exclusive eateries.
Is It Any Good?
One star means this movie fails both as entertainment and as comedy. The premise places a stand-up comedian inside a movie, but the review says the film never succeeds in making that performance funny.
The story has many deficiencies, and the humor is offensive and crude. The result is a painfully bad comedy that the source review describes as dreadful.
The Worldview
The film presents a pagan worldview in which each character pursues personal pleasure. The source review also finds an embarrassing lack of redemptive elements, leaving no meaningful moral or spiritual counterweight to that pursuit.
That vision departs from the biblical call to live for God rather than for personal pleasure. Scripture says, “So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God” (1 Corinthians 10:31).
The Content Guide
The specifics — spoilers included by nature — so you can judge for your own family.
Content Summary
Strong pagan worldview in which each character pursues personal pleasure; at least 42 obscenities and 11 profanities; mild slapstick violence; several crude sexual jokes implying fornication and masturbation; brief upper male nudity and several shots of women’s cleavage and upper portion of man’s rear; several scenes of alcohol use and one scene of alcohol abuse; several scenes of character using smokeless tobacco; and, extensive rude behavior, deception and disrespect to elderly people.
Talk About It
Questions for the drive home, the dinner table, or the youth group.
What does it mean to pursue personal pleasure as the main goal of life? How does that compare with loving God and others?
Matthew 22:37–40 · 1 Corinthians 10:31Why do words and humor matter, even when people call them “just jokes”?
Ephesians 4:29 · Philippians 4:8What kinds of entertainment help you grow in wisdom, self-control, and love for others?
Romans 12:2 · Galatians 5:22–23The Final Word
This comedy offers little entertainment value and, according to the source review, surrounds its weak premise with crude humor, excessive language, and a pagan worldview. There is no reason to make room for it in your family’s movie choices. SKIP IT. For better alternatives, see.
