Below average comedy

Rating: 4/10 (14 January 2006)

The Ringer's laugh ratio, for me, was very similar to the one I experienced during Scary Movie 3. It's the kind of comedy that has an occasional loud chuckle, but between the occasional chuckles is a chore to watch. The story is so predictable that even the dumbest viewer will know it after watching the first fifteen minutes. Johnny Knoxville has the potential to make a great comedy some day, but this isn't it. Despite its subject matter, the film also plays it annoyingly safe, keeping it at a lame, watered-down PG-13 level throughout. It has some funny lines ("When the *bleep* did we get ice cream?"), but overall you should just stick to the South Park episode, which accomplished all of the same things and more, with bigger laughs, in only 25 minutes or so.