Talladega Nights

This is a hard film to like. There are hardly any characters in this stupid face of a comedy that I liked or cared for. If I cant find any one to root for or care about one way or the other in any movie,There is no way I could give it a passing grade. The running time for this move is 122 minutes & that is way way to long for a comedy farce. Part of the racing scenes were good,the crash scenes were exercises in using the computer to create the special effect. Overdone to the max. The acting is OK, BUT Sacha Cohen was excellent as the French Driver. He was perhaps the only halfway likable person in the film Rating ** (out of 4) 63 points (out of 100) IMDb 5 (out of 10)

It's ludicrous how garbage like this gets made, and suddenly it's the "Best movie of the year". It's only the most degrading and overly used "South Bashing" jokes Hollywood has come up with, and the scene where the kids begin cursing while saying grace is so offensive I got up and walked out. If Hollywood ever makes a film that doesn't try and make a complete mockery of the Christian faith then they'll make a movie where they try to make Christians out to all be evil, yellow-eyed drunks bent on taking over the world. If you don't enjoy so much foul language that it literally comes out almost every other word, and don't enjoy the same old tired anti-south rhetoric that California regularly spews out, then do yourself a favor and save your money. Seven bucks is way too high a price for this two hour filth pile.

I got into this movie for free because I know someone at the theater, thank god! I would not recommend this movie. It's a 90 minute long advertisement for Powerade and Applebees. Literally, during one of the scenes the movie cuts to an Applebees commercial. An actual commercial. I felt like I was watching a TV show and I needed to change the channel cause commericals were on. If you think Will Ferrell is the best thing since sliced bread, you will like this movie. But if you have respect for good movies and want to spend your hard earned $9 on a good movie, don't see this. I'm warning you, it's "Product Placement" at its worst.

This movie was horrible. What a waste of time. Funny not at all. Just an over-hyped jumble of nonsense. I loved Will in Old School. I had a feeling it would be horrible, just not this horrible. It was just a total mess of filler and forced humor. I really expected more from the 2 leads and figured it would be somewhat funny seeing how well it did. The storyline was just all over the place too. That French guy was terrible too. When he came on is when I really started to squirm. Just bad, bad, bad - it seemed like the best choice out of my options. What a mistake! If you have any other options please go with them. I caudally left early after the race, I really could have cared less if it was over or not.

I really looked forward to seeing this film. Will Ferrell, given the right material, is as versatile and funny as anyone out there. But in this case, the movie suffers from having no script. Countless scenes drone on and on without direction or purpose... and, worse, without being funny. Since much of the material is obviously improvised, one becomes uncomfortable watching the actors trying to make something happen, make the scene funny -- and that's exactly what you get: a patchwork of forced, protracted scenes that have no connection to the overall story. With a number of notable exceptions, a film that is written or co-written by the director frequently suffers from having no one reign in the various elements of the story to keep it focused. Regrettably, that's the problem with "Talledega Nights". It's a fun concept and features some wonderful talent but, regrettably, director Adam McKay doesn't come close to doing anything with it.

I just got back from this movie. And it was... okay. Some of it was funny. Some of it wasn't. Some of it was clever. Some of it was predictable. In other words, if you're planning to see this movie, you already probably qualify as a Ferrell Fan, or something like that. Which means you'll think it's pretty funny. Not grade-A, top-quality, Steve Martin funny. More like a lot of "hurting for laughs," slapstick humor kind of funny. And as with most Will Ferrell movies, it's awkward at first, but will probably get better with each successive watching. So go ahead, see it. Or not. Because it will be on DVD eventually, and besides, all your friends will quote it months and months from now.

Where to start with this mess? The screenplay: Honestly, it looked like the made up the lines as they went along. In fact, there were actually times when you could see the wheels turning in the actors' heads as it looked like they had thought up the "perfect" line! The direction: Good God. Take a basic course in "film pacing" and try again - please! This film had more stuttering stops and starts than a 16-year old in a driver's ed lesson. This film was all over the place, leading to my next criticism: Editing: Most of the scenes dragged on WAY too long, exhausting the already unfunny "jokes". Case in point - the scenes in which Ricky and Cal carried on their inane phone conversations. These easily could have been cut out of the film altogether. I honestly can't remember seeing a worse film in many years. This is either testament to my tastes or to the fact that this film was sheer excrement. My humility leads me to believe that it was the latter.