Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Didn't like it. People with special conditions do other thing besides stating their name loudly and saying random things every time they meet someone. I don't think this movie ever gets to be offensive, it's just not funny. Johnny Knoxville is no actor and Katherine Heigl is certainly not going to be remembered for her dramatic skills either. The plot is no shakespearean drama either. If you are looking to kill some time maybe this could be a good choice but it doesn't go beyond that. The jokes are rather repetitive and all circle around the same issue. And finally, if you have ever met a mentally challenged person and saw this movie you would get rather angry that they just portrayed them in such a simplistic manner.

I am a Special Olympics athlete in Indiana and love this movie. It's the only movie that was cleared to go from Special Olympics Inc. Unlike "Tropic Thunder" which made fun of blacks and though with disabilities. I rented it from the library, which I would not pay to see at all. In one scene they used the r-word 10 to 15 times. It's "respect" not "retarded". I and others might be slower than you. But that only means others need to change their way of thinking around with intellectual disabilities. Those are real athletes playing in the movie too. For those like me it takes real guts to even do something like this. If I had the chance to I would take it. I want to write a book about those like us someday. I have been writing poems, though. Thank You.

This movie was fun to watch. Johnny Knoxville is hilarious and there were a lot of funny scenes. I don't know what it is about Johnny, but he can look pretty (sorry for the use of words) retarded at times.This is a story about a man who sinks very low in his life and finds himself in economical difficulties. To get out of these difficulties he plans to rig the special Olympics by entering the competition himself. He then discovers that he needs more training in order to beat his competitors.I usually don't think very highly of Knoxville movies but this one was indeed very watchable.

I really didn't expect much from this movie because to be honest, I didn't her about it until a few weeks ago.So I thought, "it's a Johnny Knoxville film from 2005 that apparently only a few watched....".Well, on a Sunday afternoon I decided to give it a chance and it wasn't by any means a letdown. It's a very inventive black comedy filled with plenty of irreverence, some jokes that may be too much for the easily offended, and funny representations of how special athletes perform.The acting is pretty funny specially by Knoxville who relies his acting skills oh physical comedy.The rest of the cast performs really well and is as funny as the lead actor. Also, the very last scene that deals with a weird dancing is the highlight of the film.Recommended for those who enjoy black comedy.