Review – The Ringer

Go out and rent a movie starring Johnny Knoxville as a kind-hearted slob who gets conned into pretending that he’s mentally-differently-abled so he can help his gambler uncle rig the Special Olympics, and you get pretty much exactly what you pay for. This is around half brain-dead comedy and half gooey message piece about the perils of under-estimating those de-valued by society. It goes without saying that this isn’t an enduring example of the finest the cinema arts have to offer, but it manages to offend less than I thought it would. Mildly amusing