Watchable but Knoxville didn't commit.

Rating: 4/10 (1 January 2006)

First, I thought Knoxville could hit this role outta the park. He didn't. He never committed. It seemed like he was afraid to make fun of his fellow actors, that he held back.
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Also while the writing was OK, the plot/story line BLEW! They even threw in a tidy little ending kiss that came outta nowhere. That chick wouldn't have gotten together with Jeffy after what he did. There's plenty of fishes and his fish wasn't built up enough for her.
I wish Knoxville had played it mean spirited and then the girl made him come around. Sure it's cliché, but at least he would have had an arch. As it is the story is FLAT. The mean spirit would have allowed him to rise fully to the role, then come off as the good guy.
I also thought for a moment that the Champ was going to be discovered as a fraud as well, and Jeffy would get the credit for going undercover to rat him out.