This one was for all of my male high school students who just couldn’t believe I hadn’t seen it already! Now, I understand why they love it, and I don’t want to take that away from them. I mean, they also think “Crash” is, like, the deepest movie ever made (“OMG! It’s like, all of their lives are intertwined!”). But, uh, come on. Okay, the baby Jesus grace thing was chuckle-funny; I generally like John C. Reilly. And, uh, that’s about it. Sacha Baron Cohen was blah. Will Ferrell is one fat blah for me in general, and this did nothing in the area of changing that. It felt like a really long, decently funny youtube video that some guys in a sketch comedy group put together, but then somehow they got a $72.5 million budget to do all the cool crash scenes and get real racecar (palindrome) drivers to make cameos.
The thing is, I like Judd Apatow and his merry band of geeksters, but he’s gotta have a heavier hand than just producing to provide that satisfying apa-taste. And no Will Ferrell. I can’t help it; he rubs me every wrong way*. Blah.
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wow… I am compelled to comment after reading your review. Talladega Nights is SO FUNNY! Will Ferrell does a great job, in my opinion, of physical comedy and his delivery in this movie was great. You didn’t like “it’s real simple, I’m the best there is”?
geez…
Wait; Do you really want to start talking about our different tastes in comedy? Look, if we agreed on this topic, I’d worry that you were just a cyborg programmed to like everything I like, and I would wonder who would program you to do that, and what they want from me. Instead, I know that both you and I are human and different things make us giggle. Like, for example, not “Little Nicky”…
I agree. I didn’t like that movie either, despite Will F. rubbing me the “right” way.
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