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By Times staff
© St. Petersburg Times
published January 9, 2003
Redneck redux
You might be a Jeff Foxworthy fan -- and quite possibly a redneck -- if you want to pay for a movie ticket to see the same show the Southern-fried standup comedian brought to Ruth Eckerd Hall last November. The Blue Collar Tour: The Movie (PG-13) is a concert documentary showing Foxworthy, second from right, and comedy accomplices, from left, Larry the Cable Guy, Bill Engvall and Ron White in their element, skewering Deep South stereotypes by reinforcing them to an absurd degree. Larry the Cable Guy (nee Dan Whitney) may look or sound familiar to Tampa Bay area comedy fans; he developed his shtick locally as a frequent contributor to Ron Diaz and Ron Bennington's WYNF-FM radio show a decade ago. This project seems like a response to the success of Spike Lee's comedy concert film, The Kings of Comedy, with another quartet of comedians riffing on a slice of American culture. Director C.B. Harding isn't Lee, but he did direct an episode of The Osbournes for MTV.
Say 'I don't'
The best part about January is that all those Oscar-worthy films we've heard about since Thanksgiving are finally making it to local theaters. The worst part is that there's still room in those megaplexes for throwaway junk like Just Married (PG-13). The movie stars Ashton Kutcher, right, who somebody believes can be more than the idiot he plays on TV's That '70s Show, and Brittany Murphy, left, who turned one decent line in a bad Michael Douglas movie ("I'll never tell-l-l" from Don't Say a Word) into celebrity. They play a young couple who marry against her parents' wishes and embark upon a European honeymoon. Her parents dispatch her former boyfriend (Christian Kane) to break the union and maybe a few bones. The preview trailer looks lame, with a cockroach crawling on Kutcher's neck offered as the best example of the film's humor. Dude, where's my D-Con?
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