people like me who have a disabilities didn't think it was funny. I got to see a mentally challenge person cry because they felt for the 1st time that they were different and something was wrong with it. My friends and I plan on taking action against this movie it should not be allowed to be sold at stores when it comes out on dvd. Ben Stiller just lost a whole mess of fans.

The tagline of the movie "Never go full retard" was what initially sparked off the protest surrounding this movie. It's my understanding that the words retard and retarded are used more than once. I won't go to see this movie, despite being a fan of Ben Stiller's other movies.

There are other ways of being funny without being offensive.

Funny, there's no mention of Downey's foil in the movie, who DOES act like a buffoon and plays the "real" black actor. The trouble is that contemporary racism works by leaving the door open. That's why we have young whites who think that dressing up like a Black 'pimp' and having a frat party about it is funny. (That, nooses, other Anti-black campus events and much worse- Jena was not an isolated incident last year. Look it up.) And Inside jokes- if that's what this movie is, and believe me, only people 'in the businesss' would ever think that-- are rarley deconstructed by the general population, especially a priviledged majority. And the parody/ satire is only hauled out in excuse for one's offensive actions. Brilliantly though, this time it was done in advance of the release.

There's not one single thing funny about the Vietnam War and what our veterans went through. Not even a joke about a joke about a joke.

Guess I'm goin' soft...

And on the flip, if the audience has to work that hard for the punchline, then maybe the joke isn't funny?

God bless our troops, and God bless our Vietnam Vets.

Where's the beef? I think some people's sense of humor was shot off in the war. If we were completely politically correct we wouldn't ever mention gender, nationality or anything that makes a person individual. In other words, doing stories about people with disabilities could be perceived as voyeurism...Why are we examining these individuals? because they're different, but we're still staring.