Blue Collar Comedy Tour: One for the Road

I was kind of skeptical about seeing this movie after not being entirely satisfied with "Rides Again," But this one was just as great as the first! Each of the guys' comedy was right on and had me laughing endlessly. Just like Ron said in the movie, I laughed until I thought I was going to throw up! All of them were on key and the material was very fun and interesting, though Larry pushed it with his joke about catching a Cuban while fishing in Florida, but otherwise, it was very great! The special features on the DVD are also very funny, including their short on pulling a prank on President Bush(played by an actor). This one might even be better than the first one in that each of the guys had relatively equal stage time, unlike in the first one where Larry and Ron's bits were too short and Jeff's was slightly too long. In this one, all four routines were well spaced and perfectly long enough to be fully satisfied, plus the material seemed very fresh and new. The finale was also absolutely hilarious in seeing old photos of the guys from years before. Some of them were obviously doctored by a computer, but the guys' reactions to them were great. This was an awesome movie, the Blue Collar boys hitting a home run in their last at-bat. Overall, a must buy!

This iteration is essentially unwatchable. It appears to have been filmed using the cheapest video camera available on wish. The sound quality is so bab that it's hard to hear the performance over the audience. At no point in the one hour and forty five minutes is the sound better than a couple kids with two time cans and a string. The audience, however, comes through loud and clear.

TBH, if I were one of the performers, I'd have been livid at how bad the audio was. I have no clue why the videographer didn't pull the audio from the mic they were holding and, instead, opted from using the 'el cheapo' setup he got from wish, but here we are.

I love all 4 of these comedians, but I'd recommend finding something else to watch. This was included with Prime, and we were pissed about the cost.

Except for Larry the Cable Guy (whom I have never liked), I thought this installment easily was up to the level of the rest of them, and that end bit with the photos was the funniest end bit of all of the shows. The jokes they're telling at the beginning of the closing are old, but they seem funnier when being told by these guys.

I don't get how these are "running out of jokes." There was a TON of new material in there, especially in Foxworthy's session. Yeah, a lot of this material is reflective on where they've been... but it's billed as "One for the Road," COME ON, PEOPLE, THAT'S WHAT IT'S FOR.

As far as Foxworthy's fat jokes... I am very much overweight, and I found them HILARIOUS.

There are two ways to look at this installment of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour:

1. If this is the first time you have become acquainted with the gang, this will likely be a 5-star experience. The bits are still funny, and the "old pictures" segment to close out the show is almost worth the price alone.

2. However, if you have already viewed parts one and two in the series, then (for likely the first time) the material will begin to really feel stale. "Rides Again" began the over-exposure, while this one only continues the process. Without that great last segment, the entire show would have really felt musty.

In terms of evaluating each individual comedian:

Bill Engvall: A bright spot; really engaging stories that may be his best performance of the three.

Ron White: A step back from "Rides Again"; loses some of that biting wit/sarcasm that is his hallmark.

Jeff Foxworthy: Spends WAY too much time on one rather uninteresting subject, and routine suffers as a result.

Larry the Cable Guy: Same old, same old here as even big-draw Larry starts to get a bit derivative and sinks into out-and-out crudity a bit too much.

Thus, your opinion of this third (and last) entry into the Blue Collar film series will likely be determined by your previous forays into the series. By and large, the jokes are still funny, but their freshness is what is seriously called into question.

Reported as the last time that Bill, Jeff, Larry, and Ron will be performing together on stage. This installment does not hold up to the quality of standard that was instituted from the first two films, which were, in my opinion, much better.

The DVD version of this film does add some hope to this offbeat title, but it still suffers. The bonus features on the DVD are superb, to say the least. Much easier to watch than the actual film itself. For instance, the boys go for a stroll to the White House and play a trick on President Bush (played by a comedian).

As a television movie, the film had quite too many pauses in the one hour and forty minutes it was aired. The jokes were overused, and sometimes bland. No real humor in much of the material. The appearances of the four gentlemen are somewhat higher than Blue Collar.

Overall, the film was average, and I gave it a 7 out of 10.