Great comedy, retard turns out to be super football player **NOTA BENE: NOT FOR INTELLECTUALS

Rating: Null/10 (16 July 2002)

This was a superb movie. Not an intellectual highlight or something but just great to watch. Although it could seem cheesy... The plot is very predictable, a 31 years old retard is laughed at his whole life and has a passion for water. He is fired as the 'water manager' by his football team, but finds a cartoonesque new football team and turns out to be a great football player with help of his freaky new coach. His mommy is a big old survivalist that wants to keep her boy with her, home schooled him and can't stand him playing 'foossball'. There's also a girl involved... Now guess.
The plot is predictable, but the humor absolutely is great. The acting isn't good in a normal way, but it fits perfectly into this movie. Everyone in this movie is freaking crazy, and so normal at the same time, that it's almost scary. But beautiful. I especially *LOVED* the scene in which his mother 'finds out'.
All in all: a great movie for laughs, absolutely not complicated, good fun for all ages under 40 i guess (though I'm 22 myself so that's hard to say :-). The bad acting was often intentional if you ask me and lead to a superb mix of sheer craziness and could-be-real emotions. The humor is slapstick, but the jokes really hit me instead of rolling over me like with all those teen slapstick movies for instance. If you just exhaled when a joke occurs in this movie you might find yourself in a lot of lung trouble, so to speak. Especially smokers should take care :-)
NOTE: NOT FOR INTELLECTUALS
peace to all
SadBunny