Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Posted on 4th August 2006 by antuan goodwin10 of 10 stars
Today at work, Mark (the boss), shut down the office for a few hours to take the staff to go see a movie. How awesome is my job? More awesome than yours I bet.
When I watched the trailers for Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, I didn’t really see anything particularly funny. I was beginning to think that Will Ferrell had perhaps fallen out of his groove. My inner cynic told me that it was impossible for Ferrell to be funny in EVERY MOVIE. I mean the man’s a comic genius, but come on. Everyone bombs sometime right?
Wrong. I was proven wrong by this one. This is quite possibly the funniest movie of this year. It’s the funniest movie I’ve seen since Anchorman. Don’t judge this movie by the trailers, because this is one of the few films that left the funniest parts out of the promotional materials. What you see in the previews (the cougar, the fire gag, etc.) are actually the least funny parts of this film! How crazy is that? The rest of the movie is 10x funnier than I expected it to be.
I was laughing hard from the beginning of the film until well after the credits started rolling. Every scene is funny, every joke gets a laugh. Don’t just take my word for it… check this movie out.
Bonus: Get there early for the Stranger Than Fiction trailer. More hilarity from Ferrell.
[...] Friday was an exceptionally awesome day. I got to skip work and go see Talladega Nights with my co-workers, on the clock and free of charge. Then, after a few hours of lazing about and writing the easiest review ever (for a film that was so awesome that there was little to critique), I found myself back at the box office for another film… Kevin Smith’s Clerks II. [...]
[...] Friday was an exceptionally awesome day. I got to skip work and go see Talladega Nights with my co-workers, on the clock and free of charge. Then, after a few hours of lazing about and writing the easiest review ever (for a film that was so awesome that there was little to critique), I found myself back at the box office for another film… Kevin Smith’s Clerks II. [...]
