Sep
09
2008
Dir: Adam McKay
Writ: Adam McKay, Will Ferrell, & John C. Reilly
- Will Ferrell … Brennan Huff
- John C. Reilly … Dale Doback
- Mary Steenburgen … Nancy Huff
- Richard Jenkins … Dr. Robert Doback
- Adam Scott … Derek Huff
- Kathryn Hahn … Alice Huff
See also: IMDb ; Other reviews
This film is so very wrong in so many ways. It has, as heroes, two adult men who live at home with their single parents, taking no responsibility for their lives, scrounging, and behaving like immature obnoxious 12 year olds. And that is a flattering description.
But it is also hilarious.
Honestly, I think I almost died laughing so much at parts of this film. Ferrell and Reilly could be 12 year olds, the way they act in this film. Unreasonable, annoying, smack ‘em up side the head 12 year old boys. Because they really are obnoxious. I can’t say that often enough. Obnoxious and horrid[1]
And don’t get me started on the role women play in this film. Only there to fulfil a part in a male fantasy.
Still, I laughed. I laughed hard! and it was good. I’d even watch it again. If only for the funniest attempted murder scene ever made. Funniest burial scene anyways.
One day my father just said, “Goddamn it, you’re seventeen, stop being a fucking dinosaur and get a job!”
Linknotes:
- - I do love the word horrid, dont you. Although you do need to say it in a snooty manner, with a slightly upper class English accent to get its full effect ↩
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Sep
29
2006
Dir: Adam McKay
Writ: Will Ferrell & Adam Mckay
- Will Ferrell - Ricky Bobby
- John C. Reilly - Cal Naughton, Jr.
- Gary Cole - Reese Bobby
- Sacha Baron Cohen - Jean Girrard
Ricky Bobby, born in a speeding car, wants nothing more out of life than to go fast. That, and win. Because if you aren’t first, you’re last. As his daddy told him the one time he turned up in his life. And as a winning NASCAR driver he seems to have a pretty good life. He wins, has plenty of money, two obnoxious kids with the genius names of Walker, and Texas Ranger, a beautiful wife, and the ability to go fast all he wants.
But then things begin to go wrong, as Jean Girrad, an F1 driver turns up on the circut. Ricky crashes his car, and all of a sudden begins to feel the fear. He loses his drive, his wife, his desire to go fast. And its all fun and games when his father shows up trying to help him out, in his own drunken bum with a heart of stone way.
Overall it is an entertaining enough film, with a fair few laughs, but it isn’t the genius that was Anchorman and a few of the laughs fall flat. Still, worth watching if you’ve nothing better to do.
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