Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)

Is there something wrong with me? Is there something wrong with my brain? Is it that I just don’t understand, or is it just that my senses are different? Because this movie was not funny. There were a couple moments of the film that are very funny, but far and few between. Maybe it’s just another Happy Gilmore. A movie that the entire world is convinced is hilarious but I do not find good at all. Because this movie is just not funny. Not as unfunny as Happy Gilmore is, but still unfunny on a decently monumental aspect. The film starts Will Ferrell as the title character, Ricky Bobby, who is one of the greatest NASCAR hillbilly drivers out there. He doesn’t like to work with other people. He has a beautiful and extremely attractive and kind of stupid wife (Leslie Bibb), a best friend (John C. Reily) who always boosts Bobby into 1st but has never had a second in a place other than 2nd, and two kids who blatantly swear and throw rude insults out at their ill grandfather (which is one of the few funny parts in the film). But Bobby’s world completely falls apart when a gay French driver names Jean Girard (Sasha Baron Cohen) comes, with the sole mission to race Ricky Bobby, both at the top of their game, in a race for the ages. Ricky becomes fed up with beating Girard, to the point of complete mental breakdown. This man’s life falls apart, and must find redemption, at the help of one of his old associates (Amy Adams), by completing the task that made him lose his complete mind in the first place. The film is riddled with a good couple other smaller roles by very cool people, including the always fabulous Jane Lynch, our own Kenneth Parcell, Jack McBrayer, and Michael Clarke Duncan, the man who fought Ben Affleck in Daredevil (I seriously think I am the only person who likes that film). But, in the end of it all, the movie does not work. I don’t care about any of these characters. And most of the jokes just are not that funny. There are a couple jokes that take, including one involving Theodore Roosevelt, but most of them are just failed attempts or not attempts at all. There are talented people in this film. Just not any good comedy to back it up.
4.5/10