Of the losers. For the losers? (SPOILERS)

Rating: 6/10 (6 February 2008)

1. Edwin Hoover - Worthless horny old man, gets kicked out of a retirement home for doing drugs, can't string a sentence without the F word to hold it together.
2. Richard Hoover - A motivational speaker with no audience, peddling a useless model that is so obviously useless.
3. Sheryl Hoover - Married to loser number 2. That makes her a gullible loser, worse than Richard Hoover.
4. Frank Ginsberg - The biggest loser of them all. Gay out-of-work scholar, expert in the works of an author that seems to be almost as pathetic as the characters in this movie combined, who loses his job and boyfriend to somebody who is less of an expert on Proust than he is.
5. Dwayne - Loser with a silly belief that he would get to fly fighter jets if he doesn't talk to anybody. In a way, a live example of what loser number 2 is preaching.
The way I look at it, this is a movie about uber-losers designed to make losers feel good about themselves. With the mortgage crisis and economic slowdown, I guess this makes the rednecks whose homes were foreclosed a little less miserable about their own lives. I'll bet people came out of the theater thinking "Oh, thank god my life isn't so full of manure. Maybe I'm not that big a loser after all." Only saving grace was that unlike the usual "feel good" movies, this one ended with the whole family making a fool of itself. Typically, this movie would have ended with the girl exhibiting some breath-taking talent on stage, and winning the pageant, and the whole family living happily ever after.
The family was an assemblage of losers at the beginning of the movie, and they stayed that way till the end. Basically to make the audience go "Hey I'm not a total loser after all!".
PS: The humor was better than most other movies, but this still is not top 250 material.