Several disability advocacy groups criticized the "Simple Jack" subplot, a movie-within-a-movie in which Ben Stiller's character portrays a mentally disabled man. The film includes clips of the fictitious movie and re-enactments by Stiller. Scenes between Robert Downey, Jr. and Stiller drew particular scorn for their repeated use of the word "retard". Producers took down a "Simple Jack" website and proposed altering the movie in response to a special early screening for the disability groups in question, but they did not change the film. According to co-writer Etan Cohen, the scenes were meant to satirize emotionally exploitative depictions of mental disability in movies such as Rain Man - L'uomo della pioggia (1988), Forrest Gump (1994), Mi chiamo Sam (2001), and Mi chiamano Radio (2003), as well as the actors who take these roles.

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