To me, this movie is perfection.

The Worst Film Ever

Fantastic!

As Good As It Gets

Heartfelt, moving, inspiring!I found this film to be wonderful - respectful - and life affirming all at the same time - the reporters - a group of people with so much heart and verve for life that you cannot help but learn from them "what's your biggest dream?" is about the most profound and elemental question known to humankind - and these reporters dare to ask.Kudos to everyone involved - if you've ever felt like an "other" and outsider, or someone behind the glass - watch this film and then join all of us - each person striving to be, do, learn and become - the best the can.What's not to love - the people driven to realize the film - the reporters on a quest to explore America - they each have a valuable mission - to become themselves by interacting with others, where they will learn. As cheesy as the story could have been, it wasn't - nor clichéd - which of us on this planet has not a single quality which stands in our way? We are all coping as well as we are able - and my favorite feeling at the end wasn't just for what the entire group accomplished - but how the film reflected some aspect of the viewer - whether they were looking or not.

Let me preface this by saying that I rarely get high. Therefore, the views portrayed in this comment may be biased.That said, on the particular day that I watched How's Your News, I was high. I had, in fact, recently participated in the "high-ing" event, and walked into a house that was playing this movie. I promptly sat down, and spent the next half hour trying to determine whether this was, in fact, real, or simply some type of Matt Stone and Trey Parker joke. Ironically, it was both. So, let's put it this way: Are you looking for humor that goes far beyond the boundaries of what even the creators of South Park could deem fictionalized? Do you fantasize about jokes that involve people in wheel chairs or with IQ's below 20? Have you ever had the need to laugh at a hippie that, through his own ignorance, herded up a group of physically and developmentally disabled adults, got them on a van, and paraded them to America as some sort of therapeutic exercise? Well, then, you've found your dream movie. Somehow, Matt Stone and Trey Parker learned of a guy that, at some rich Northeastern summer camp for the mentally and physically challenged, had his clients run a grass roots news show. So, he handed a guy with down syndrome a microphone, had him walk up to unsuspecting folks, and ask them anything that came to mind.Yes, there are some touching moments in the movie. And, since it is Matt Stone and Trey Parker, they really do capture important points about how people treat and even try to avoid mentally or physically disabled citizens. But the meat of the comedic attempt is that, for a group of guys that cartooned Ben Afflick jerking off a 10-year-old, even THEY couldn't make something up like this and get away with it. So, they funded this guy to take his top group and travel from the Northeast all the way to the land of people that could only compare to their oddness: Venice Beach.You'll get hymnals. A man with severe cerebral palsy being left in wheel chairs on the streets of New York with nothing but a microphone and a "please talk to me" sign. Show tunes. And, ultimately, psychics paid for palm readings by people that can't even form full sentences.If you need to come up with some heart warming story of why this movie really touched you personally, by all means, do so. There really are important points to be made. But those points are made, as Matt Stone and Trey Parker often do, through the completely politically incorrect humor of it all. Rent it. Laugh your butt off. Then, when the guy at the party talks about how "Chuck and Buck" or "Happiness", or even "Gummo" was the most shocking thing he'd ever seen, you can tell them this...ever see a developmentally disabled adult question a high farm worker about the Fonz? I have.

Overall weak effort given the possibilities. There's simply not enough context presented for the viewer to be more involved in the story. I thought the totally blown opportunity would have been for the director Bradford to become more involved in the story and present his commentary from time to time, or other crew members for that matter. It would have lended a more rounded view and been more compelling.Quite frankly, after the first 10 minutes or so, the interviewing of people on the street gets pretty repetitive. I had the FF button on my DVD remote working overtime. A little bit went a long way. Again there were so many possibilities and chances to make this a much more interesting film. There's no doubt in my mind that any positive response to this film has much more to do w/ the PC nature of the subject matter than anything else. In terms of style there really is none to speak of, the film is made in an unpretentious way, but is also totally unremarkable in every way. very flat! The short film that was included on the DVD was a much better effort imo.

This documentary is the kind of film that makes you want to be alive! At first glance, the idea of severely disabled people trekking across the country and interviewing people for their "news" show seems kind of depressing. While many people talk to the reporters, others are jerks and ignore them. Yet through scene after scene, the spirit of the cast will warm your heart. The people in this film are truly inspiring. Plus, it's funny as hell ! Best documentary I've seen since "I'm from Hollywood."