Good heart, bad everything else.

Rating: 4/10 (19 March 2006)

This is a film that would have taken me a month to watch if I had rented it. Luckily, I saw it in theaters and it only took 2 hours. The movie had some golden moments that made the whole audience and me laugh hysterically; but throughout most of the film, the theater was dead silent. I did not see anything offensive against or from the real mentally challenged actors; the problems came from the "acting-challenged" actors. Johnny Knoxville was great with the slapstick comedy, but bad in the more involved comedy.Katherine Heigl was totally miscast and got pretty annoying with the BS smiles. The odd "Jesus" comments randomly inserted in parts just made me feel uncomfortable and aware of how little material they had to work with. The bit at the end was also very cringe-worthy. Although the movie was approved by the Special Olympics, it seems like they also wrote this dry script.
I don't want to get into the tiny details, so I'll just stop here. I learned my lesson: If South park parodies something BEFORE it comes out, it must be bad.