Jason Bateman's acerbic-tongued insults would be the only reason to see this oddball film about a brilliant jerk who desides to enter a nationally televised spelling bee so he can destroy it and ends up developing a twisted friendship with a ten year old Indian boy, himself a fellow contestant. The reason why Bateman wants to ruin the contest is about as close to a narrative as this film gets and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who offends easily. Yet his deplorable antics and insults, many of them aimed at children, are so shameful and wickedly hilarious that the film ends up being rather entertaining even if there really isn't much of anything there.
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