Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

January 2, 2007

Rated: PG-13 Runtime: 110 min Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby features Will Ferrell as a NASCAR driver. This is how the project was pitched to the studios. We dont think much more needs to be said for anyone to get the idea here, but we like to write, so we’ll talk a bit more about it anyway.

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky BobbyThere really isn’t much to the plot, this is purely Will doing his thing. Ferrell plays Ricky Bobby, a man born to race. He turns into NASCAR’s greatest driver. He has it all and wins effortlessly until a F1 driver from France comes onto the scene to be his rival. Pretty thin isn’t it? But who cares, the real question is whether or not it’s funny.

This is the funniest Will Ferrell movie we’ve seen to date. Although that doesn’t say much, this is one of those movies that will make your side hurt. Our main concern going in was either it would be way too NASCAR centric and be tough for anyone who is not a fan to “get” the jokes or it would make fun of stock car racing so much as to offend the fans.

The movie does neither, it’s just funny. It’s crude, it’s rude, sometimes it’s even silly, but we dare you not to laugh. If you’re looking for some Days of Thunder style action, well, the racing is well done and believable. But see this for the racing, see it for the humor. I suspect this is going to be showing on a lot of DVD players in RV’s and SUV’s at the tracks next year. We give it 5 stars and look forward to seeing it again to catch the jokes we were laughing through the first time.

Posted by Billy Bob | Filed Under 5 Stars, Amy Adams, Comedy, DVD, John C. Reilly, Michael Clarke Duncan, PG-13, Sacha Baron Cohen, Will Ferrell 

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  1. A bunch of Semi-Pro pictures : mediaforguys.com on January 23rd, 2008 6:18 pm

    [...] anxiously awaiting the release of Semi-Pro, his upcoming basketball movie. I enjoyed Anchorman, and Talladega Nights was quite funny in parts so I look forward to Semi-Pro with [...]

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