"Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" *** (out of four): This ode to the NASCAR life is easily one of Will Ferrell's most consistently funny comedies, and that's really saying something.
I was worried about Will Ferrell there for a while. When I heard he was re-teaming with Adam McKay - his co-writing/directing partner from the disappointing “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy” - for the similarly titled “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby”, I was afraid we were going to see another “Saturday Night Live”-level character stretched out to 90 minutes. Thankfully, I was wrong. With “Talladega”, Mr. Ferrell and Mr. McKay find a venue ripe for their particular brand of parody, and they manage to skillfully straddle the line between laughing-at and laughing-with, which should make this film much-beloved in the middle states.
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I thought this was a great Ferrell movie too, but some things just missed. The wife didn't seem quite bitchy enough and I expected some kind of denouement with her getting it on with Molly Shannon or something.
I'm just waiting for Ferrell's take on Land of the Lost. Now that's going to be a movie! You think they will cast Paris Hilton as a Sleestak?