Meh....message is too easily glossed over...

Rating: Null/10 (31 August 2004)

As someone who works with mentally handicapped folks, this movie is near appalling in its subtext. The modern residential and vocational facilities that exist today strive to find real jobs and make the people we work for functioning members of society, not just what essentially amounts to a mascot for a football team. Most people with mental retardation don't want to simply be seen as cute and someone to be pitied. The idea seems harmless, but so did blackface 100 years ago.
True, it wouldn't make a very good movie to show a kindly mentally retarded person doing office work or answering phones for a company, but dammit if they can't make us laugh and learn to feel good about ourselves......*Sigh*