Dumber Than Dumb!

Rating: 2/10 (13 October 2007)

The wacko novelist whose idea of research is fantasizing about what it would be like to jump off a building. The assistant the publisher sends over to make sure the wacko novelist meets her deadline (only in the movies are novelists wacko and have deadlines). The obsessive-compulsive bureaucrat who owns a wristwatch that has a mind of its own! The Bohemian capitalist who apparently thinks 9/11 would have been avoided had Osama bin Laden been pummeled with her cookies! The literature professor who doesn't know that comedy and tragedy are genres, and is so obsessed with the wacko novelist, he has built his sham career on her nauseating ditty "Little did he realize."
Just when you think it couldn't get any stupider, it does. IRS auditors who never use calculators. Wrecking crews that tear down the wrong building. A stranger who sets his watch four minutes too fast but doesn't tell the obsessive-compulsive bureaucrat who asks for the time, then is at the bus stop the next day just in time to save the brat who cuts in front of rush hour traffic because - you guessed it! - his watch is four minutes too fast (you would think that his watch would *know* it was four minutes too fast and re-set itself, but I digress)! The only good thing I can say about this exercise in nit-witted self-consciousness is that I saved $3.99 I would have blown watching it on PPV.