Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector (2006)

A slovenly cable repairman becomes a big-city health inspector and is tasked with uncovering the source of a food poisoning epidemic.

Director:

Trent Cooper

Writers:

Jonathan Bernstein, James Greer

Stars:

Larry the Cable Guy, David Koechner, Michael Papajohn

2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Larry the Cable Guy	...	Larry
David Koechner	...	Donnie
Michael Papajohn	...	Diner Manager
Phyllis Alexion	...	Old Woman in Diner
Tony Hale	...	Jack Dabbs
Thomas F. Wilson	...	Bart Tatlock (as Tom Wilson)
Iris Bahr	...	Amy Butlin
Eric Esteban	...	Sushi Chef Sakamoto
Brooke Dillman	...	Brenda
Joanna Cassidy	...	Lily Micelli
Rahman Khan	...	Indian Restaurant Manager
Megyn Price	...	Jane Whitley
Arian Waring Ash	...	Lingerie Store Manager (as Arian Ash)
Bruce Bruce	...	Big Shug
Tom Hillmann	...	Tad

Storyline

Irreverent as ever, Larry The Cable Guy plays a big city health inspector who's happy with his usual beat of greasy spoon diners and low-rent ethnic restaurants. His easygoing life is turned upside-down when he's saddled with a straight-arrow rookie partner (Iris Bahr) and assigned the biggest case of his career: investigating an outbreak of mysterious food poisonings at the city's swankiest restaurants. Infuriating restaurateurs with his bad manners, Larry still manages to charm a sweet, shy waitress (Megyn Price) into a budding romance. But when his unorthodox methods cost him his job, Larry has to go undercover to bring the conspirators to justice and 'Git-R-Done!'

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Plot Keywords:

food poisoning | restaurant | health inspector | undercover | diner | 

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Taglines:

They'll Give Anyone A Badge.

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual content, and for language

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

24 March 2006 (USA)

Also Known As:

Botcsinálta ellenőr

Filming Locations:

Orlando, Florida, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$4,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$6,922,767 (USA) (24 March 2006)

Gross:

$15,655,665 (USA) (19 May 2006)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Full Sail Real World Education, Parallel Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

89 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

In the Health inspectors office where Larry and Butlin are talking at the desk and a lady is in the background on a computer, she is really at the dell BIOS screen.

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Goofs

A line disappears from the white board as Larry's partner writes on it.

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Quotes

Larry: He's going down faster than a bottle of vodka in Courtney Love's house.

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Connections

Featured in Comedy Central Roast of Larry the Cable Guy (2009)

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Soundtracks

"Minuet Bocherini"
Arranged by Craig Austin
Courtesy of Sound Ideas

User Reviews

An Ernest P. Worrell for the 21st Century ?

I played on a Baptist College baseball team over twenty years ago with Dan "Larry the Cable Guy" Whitney. Even back then he was only a part- time pitcher but a full time clown. I wish he had shifted his focus and concentrated more on his curve ball. If he had then perhaps we would have been spared his first feature length film---"Larry the Cable Guy Health Inspector".

As a "starter" project this movie echoes the transitions made by other comedians-- most notably Jim Carrey (Ace Ventura -Pet Detective) and less notably Rob Schneider (Deuce Bigelow-Male Gigolo). However Dan's talent is probably better compared to the late Jim Varney and his alter ego-- "Ernest P. Worrell". Still, I can much more appreciate Varney's eccentric talents than Dan's stubborn assault on our sensibilities by offering repeated renditions of a stock version of a crude redneck character(or has he broadened this into being somehow representative of "blue collar crude" in an effort to pull some of the population living north of the Ohio River into this movie's prospective demographic?)

In "Health Inspector" Dan manages to exhaust most of the material found in his stand up routine. He also comes up with some new bits- most of which are only incidental variations on his old bits. It's true that he does break some new ground also. We get to see Larry in love through an indirect appeal to pathos. But the sum total of this film, in the end, is that it serves as little more than a woeful compilation of "Larry's the Cable Guy's" rather sloppy rise into the national consciousness.

The touchstone for deciding whether or not you should give "Health Inspector" a chance can be found in Dan's signature stage utterance---"Git r Done". If the humor buried in that expression appeals to you ---then by all means check out the movie. But if the phrase leaves you lost, cold and empty---you had best give the film a pass. For my part, I have never been able to translate "Git r Done" into anything that quite registers as "funny" on my tired brain. But I still went and saw the show anyway. After all, like I said --I used to play ball with this guy in school.