When Steve's (Knoxville) gardener loses his hand in a freak mowing accident our man is left with a 28,000 dollar bill to pay by the end of the month.
With nowhere else to turn he calls on his sleazy Uncle, Gary (Cox), for help.
But Gary isn't in any position to lend a hand (excuse the pun) as he needs to come with 100k for his bookie or losing a few fingers will be the last of his worries.
Desperate, and slightly drunk, the pair come up with the only logical solution: Rechristen Steve as "Jeffy", enter him in the Special Olympics and bet on him beating reigning champion Jimmy Washington ("The Deion Sanders of retards") in the finals. Genius.
They say:
Empire: "This is proof that when the Farrellys are involved ribald yet humane comedy can be mined from the most potentially offensive sources."
Total Film: "Director Blaustein's debut feature is a limp affair: Knoxville is out acted by his co-stars and the gags are moronic at best. Don't be duped. "
Guardian: "It's a funny idea, and Knoxville actually doesn't do too badly. But there is something queasy about the inevitable segue into fuzzy feelgood acceptance."
We say:
Produced by the kings of bad taste, Bobby and Peter Farrelly, we were hoping for another taboo busting classic like "Kingpin" or "There's Something About Mary".
Unfortunately what we got was a sappy cop out, fully endorsed by the real life Special Olympics, that rejects the usual collection of non-PC humour in favour of various Knoxville pratfalls.
In his defence, this is the "Jackass" frontman's best big screen performance so far, although this is mainly because he normally looks retarded in front of the camera anyway.
It is ironic that his fellow competitors bust Jeffy because he can't act - something the film going public clearly haven't managed with Knoxville yet.
CAST
Johnny Knoxville, Brian Cox, Katherine Heigl,
Geoffrey Arend, Edward Barbanell, Leonard Flowers
DIRECTOR
Barry W. Blaustein
TIME
94 mins
POSTED...
Mon 27 Mar 2006 at 11:34am
