Good film except for politically incorrect comment

Rating: 8/10 (30 October 2006)

Agree with other commentators that this film was very nice. Fast-paced but easy to follow, clear dialog, great humor, exemplary concerning modern-day ethics. I had my 5'5" husband take me, 5'2" to see it on my birthday with some friends, 5'1" and 4'8." Apropos height, I was a little surprised to find a politically incorrect comment in it which surely offended some viewers. I know it offended us. The character Nigel made a generalization about short men which is both untrue and unfair, in that it spreads a malicious stereotype. He cited another character as someone who was proof of the fact that all short men had giant egos. In German the script went something like "Kleiner Mann, riesen Ego." I couldn't believe my ears. Remember, these films are shown in countries and languages all over the world. So when an irresponsible comment is made, it is heard globally-- also by much of the 2/3 of the world which is under 5 feet tall, the majority.
Generalizations such as women are incompetent or Germans are Nazis or blacks are criminal or Jews are...(and so forth) are unthinkable because they are hurtful and bigoted, not to mention plain untrue in most cases. So why do we still (or again) tolerate this type of stereotyping in 2006? What type of irresponsible writing, editing, censoring is this? A clever-sounding, convincing comment like this in a glitzy movie, presented as a general truth, can do unthinkable damage, such as to cause an innocent person to lose a chance at a job or partner. As a wife, mother, sister and friend of men who are are not tall but certainly have their act together in every way and suffer no complexes, I take it quite badly. It spoiled an otherwise great movie for me.