Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector is a 2006 comedy film starring American stand-up comedian Larry the Cable Guy. Larry, a municipal restaurant health inspector, is assigned a new rookie partner after recklessly closing restaurants for code violations, Amy Butlin (Iris Bahr), by his boss, Bart Tatlock (Tom Wilson). Together, Larry and Amy work to solve a series of food poisonings at four-star restaurants.
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Plot
Larry is a big city health inspector with questionable practices and his own way of doing things. Larry's boss, Bart Tatlock (Tom Wilson), in an attempt to acquire information on his activities in order to get him fired, assigns Larry a new partner, Amy Butlin (Iris Bahr), a by-the-book professional who takes the job seriously. She tries to learn the ropes of health inspection while putting up with Larry and his personality as well as getting the information Tatlock needs to get Larry fired.
As Larry and Amy do their job as city health inspection team, a serial criminal is poisoning four-star restaurants. Trying to avert a panic, and keep the matter of the poisonings under control, Tatlock puts his best people on the job, and not Larry. Larry and Amy are called in on one of the poisonings, but Tatlock forbids them from working on such an important case. Larry and Amy continue to inspect lower-profile restaurants, but the Mayor Maurice T. Gunn (Joe Pantoliano) is tricked into assigning Larry and Amy to the more important poison case, much to Larry and Amy's enthusiasm. Larry and Amy go undercover at one of the restaurants, and obtain a tape recording of a conversation between the Mayor Gunn and Chef Leon, in which the chef clarifies the Gunn's request that the food being prepared by Chef Leon be poisoned.
Larry and Amy interrupt the mayor during an interview with their evidence, but the mayor explains that Chef Leon was reacting to the mayor's instruction to put French's mustard on the Gunn's chicken piccata, an act that the insulted Chef Leon viewed as a metaphorical act of "poisoning" to his life's work. When Larry speaks to Chef Leon over the phone, Chef Leon corroborates this interpretation. As a result, Tatlock fires Larry.
Despondent, Larry visits his old friend Big Shug, but ends up alienating him as well. Heading over to his romantic interest, Jane's (Megyn Price) house, Larry sees she and her mother (Lisa Lampanelli) are enjoying a friendly social visit by the mayor. Feeling as if his life has hit rock bottom, Larry resolves to solve the poisoning crimes. He confronts Mayor Gunn, who reveals that Lilly Michelli (Joanna Cassidy), the owner of Micelli's restaurant, had him make sure that Larry was assigned to the poisonings case. Larry and Amy realize that Michelli did this so to ensure that case was investigated incompetently, as she is the one behind the poisonings. At a taping of the television cook-off show, Top Chef, Larry and Amy expose Michelli's culpability and arrest her, and are vindicated.
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Themes
The film is an interrelated exploration of the dual themes of cleanliness and gender. Cleanliness is counterposed with disorder in the incongruity of Larry's cluttered old truck with his official role in promoting cleanliness vis a vis his health inspector responsibilities. The tension is heightened by repeated references to bodily functions (axiomatically considered unclean and shameful within the Western commercial milieu of the film's production) both allusively and directly, such as the scene in which Larry struggles with the aftereffects of food poisoning in his paramour's bathroom. Indeed, the bathroom scene may be regarded as a microcosm of the larger film, in that Larry must confront and control the "unclean" yet must conceal the inevitable struggles this engenders from "proper" society, as represented by the character of Jane. Questions of gender are interrogated via the character of Amy, whom Larry in his untutored innocence refers to as a male for most of the film. Amy, albeit nonconforming to bourgeois ideals of femininity, is very much a cisgendered, heterosexual woman, as revealed by her incipient romance with barbecue chef Big Shug. The relationship between Amy and Big Shug furthermore introduces an element of racial(ist) and class(ist) dichotomy of a type recently delineated by modern inquiries into "other"ing as well as post-proto-Marxian class theory.
Cast
- Larry the Cable Guy as Himself
- Iris Bahr as Amy Butlin
- Megyn Price as Jane Whitley
- Lisa Lampanelli as Jane's mom
- Brooke Dillman as Brenda
- David Koechner as Donnie
- Kid Rock as Himself
- Joanna Cassidy as Lily Michelli, the main antagonist.
- Joe Pantoliano as Mayor Maurice T. Gunn
- Tony Hale as Jack Dabbs
- Bruce Bruce as Big Shug
- Thomas F. Wilson as Bart Tatlock
- Jerry Mathers as Himself
Reception
The film was panned by critics. It retains a "Rotten" 5% rating from critics at Rotten Tomatoes, with the website's consensus stating "An aggressively lowbrow vehicle for its titular star, this gross-out comedy fails to "git-r-done." The film garnered $15,680,099 at the American box office.
Rotten Tomatoes ranked Larry The Cable Guy: Health Inspector #85 on its "The 100 Worst Reviewed Films of All Time: 2000-2009" list. The DVD was released August 8th 2006
Awards and nominations
References
External links
- Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector on IMDb
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