#37: Bad Words (2014)

I love Jason Bateman. I actually had a crush on him way back when he played Eric on Silver Spoons. He's one of those actors that can make you love him even when he's playing a complete ass. Thank God for that! Otherwise this movie might have been unbearable. The story is OK. It's one of those movies where you're supposed to be trying to figure out why the protagonist is doing what they're doing. There's a bit of a mystery. Except, at a certain point, you kind of stop caring. Guy Trilby might as well be acting like a jerk and robbing little kids of their dreams of Spelling Bee victory just 'cause for all we care by the end. There are definitely a lot of laugh out loud moments in the film, but the racist jokes just rubbed me the wrong way. Call me overly sensitive, whatever. I don't like listening to a grown white man continuously rib a little Indian boy with jokes about him smelling like curry, etc. Eck!