Stephen Garrett Time Out Nov 17, 2011 1/5

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Betsy Sherman Boston Phoenix Apr 23, 2009 0.5/4

It's sad to watch Yaphet Kotto, as the shady fed, clothesline the stereotypical Muslim motel owner who's already been threatened by Larry with a trip to Gitmo.

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Andrew L. Urban Urban Cinefile Dec 20, 2008

Witless, lowbrow fun is the signature of this so-so comedy with Larry the Cable Guy in fine fat form as a country bumpkin deputy sheriff with delusions of grander than smalltown cop

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Stephen Schaefer Boston Herald Oct 18, 2008 B-

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Austin Kennedy Sin Magazine Jul 22, 2008 .5/4

The movie doesn't even have the common decency to be under 90 minutes. What a bore.

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Larry Ratliff San Antonio Express-News Mar 1, 2008 1.5/4

I've got an idea for Larry the Cable Guy's next dumb movie. Maybe the lowbrow bumbler with the big heart and even bigger beer gut could play, oh I don't know, a cable guy?

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Betty Jo Tucker ReelTalk Movie Reviews Mar 1, 2008

During the last part of this wacky comedy, it loses the amusing push-pull intimacy between its 'odd-couple' protagonists.

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Jim Lane Sacramento News & Review Feb 29, 2008 1/5

From this kind of witlessness, the only protection is not to see it.

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Ken Hanke Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) Feb 27, 2008 .5/5

Merely an excuse for the viewer to delight in the hilarity generated by Mr. Cable Guy breaking wind, vomiting, producing various gastric noises, etc.

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Ethan Alter Film Journal International Feb 26, 2008

Ranting about Witless Protection's political incorrectness -- not to mention its general stupidity -- would be a waste of breath. Even so, the movie is breathtakingly offensive at times.

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Steven Hyden AV Club Feb 25, 2008 F

Larry The Cable Guy is a cancerous boil on the ass of comedy, but it's still sort of shocking how little effort he puts into his movies.

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Amy Nicholson Boxoffice Magazine Feb 25, 2008

It's the audience that deserves Protection from this Witless Larry the Cable Guy vehicle.

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Ty Burr Boston Globe Feb 25, 2008 1/4

The otherwise genial Witless Protection scrapes bottom whenever a black person or an Asian or an Arab is wheeled on for just-kiddin' laughs.

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Tod Goldberg E! Online Feb 25, 2008 F

You have what might very well be the worst movie of 2008. And 2009. And probably 2010, too. Did we fail to mention the exploding farts?

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Matt Zoller Seitz New York Times Feb 25, 2008 1.5/5

In Witless Protection, Larry the Cable Guy plays a small-town deputy, fantasizing about becoming an F.B.I. agent. Sitcom wackiness ensues.

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Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter Feb 25, 2008

Makes his previous effort, Delta Farce, seem a classic by comparison.

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John Anderson Variety Feb 25, 2008

One can only hope that Witless Protection is targeted at a vanishing species of American Neanderthal. In the meantime, perhaps Larry and his accomplices at Lionsgate could take some sensitivity traning.

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Linda Cook Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) Feb 24, 2008 .5/4

Maybe there are only two kinds of people in this world. Those who think Larry the Cable Guy is funny, and those who do not. I am in the latter camp.

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Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Feb 23, 2008 D

The nastiest and silliest of Larry the Cable Guide big-screen vehicles, Witless Protection, the formulaic road flick, is Witless Comedy par excellence.

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Eric D. Snider EricDSnider.com Feb 23, 2008 F

I began hating it not just for its utter lack of quality as art or entertainment, but for the blackness of its very soul.

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