neither funny nor enlightening

Rating: 1/10 (16 May 2006)

This film neither had the guts to make fun of the mentally disabled, nor the guts to honestly show them as they are: disabled.
90 minutes of cruel retard jokes could have been hilarious, and would have been more honest than this film was. The truth is, people think the mentally disabled are fun to laugh at. "retard" is one of the most common generic pejoratives, along with "Jew" and "gay." If they had guts, the film makers would have put a mentally disabled Jewish homosexual in the movie and ridiculed him mercilessly.
Instead the movie is full of lame jokes that don't offend anyone. They then try to make up for the lack of humor by portraying the mentally disabled "positively". Their positive message seems to be that the mentally disabled don't have any real disability -- that they are just normal people with a few quirky mannerisms, like foreigners who talk with a funny accent.
A worthwhile film would have shown them as they are, disability and all, and found what positive message it could in the truth. But this film is just fantasy, so afraid to say anything negative that it says nothing at all.
If you would like to see a worthwhile film about the mentally disabled, check out "How's Your News", http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298917/.