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Genres:
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Action /
Comedy /
Sport
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Director:
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Adam McKay
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Actors:
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Ian Roberts,
Jason Davis,
Lorrie Bess Crumley,
Luke Bigham,
Austin Crim,
John D. King,
Gary Cole,
Jane Lynch,
Michael Clarke Duncan,
Will Ferrell,
John C. Reilly,
Adam McKay,
David Koechner,
Jack McBrayer,
Pat Hingle
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Duration:
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108 min.
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Rating:
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(6.4/10)107
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Plot Summary:
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Comic excitement Will Ferrell (SATURDAY NIGHT Stay, ANCHORMAN) plays Ricky Bobby, a judge who is at once laughably ridiculous, infuriating, and loveable. Ricky Bobby, with his bleached-blonde wife, cute sons Walker and Texas Ranger, and dim sidekick Cal (award-victorious actor John C. Reilly, flexing his considerable comedic muscle), has got it made. He is NASCAR's most stock driver, and nearly every angle of his life is endorsed past a recognisable product. Anyhow his racetrack monarchy is not unshakeable: two formidable opponents, his unpleasable frame, Reese (Gary Cole), and a jazzy new foe... , the openly gay French purport Jean (played by a uproarious Sasha Baron Cohen, known to millions as Borat and Ali G), endanger to hijack his crown and expose his vulnerabilities. Notwithstanding that it is identical of America's most stock sporting events, the association of NASCAR with uncultured, backwards rednecks seems cemented into the American consciousness. So the glorious comedy TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY, is not just a side-splitting series of slapstick pratfalls and past-the-top accents, but a lens into an important element of American taste. Though many of the jokes are serene laughs (having Ferrell struggle around shirtless is a guaranteed guffaw-fest), the continuity (co-written by Farrell and Adam McKay) is nuanced and intelligent, lending its characters much more fellow-feeling and involvement than dumber comedies are penury to do. Every performer--from Ferrell to Amy Adams (as Susan, Bobby's fawning assistant)--tackles his or her part with joy and relish. A side-splitting humdinger of a movie with smarts and savvy, TALLADEGA NIGHTS ensures Ferrell's point of view as united of comedy's shining talents.
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Headache Of Laughter
I don't usually like Will Ferrell films but this was hilarious. I laughed so hard I got a headache!
Brilliant!
A very very sad load of old ballads
This film is about a racecar driver who loses everything and then finds his path back to the big time. Cor Blimey Chief as Penfold use to say, what a load of old sh*t, which he didn't say. I sat though bad acting, bad accents, especially from Sacha Baron Cohen and a bad story that made me wish I hadn't watched such an awful film as this.
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Kenneth TuranTalladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby is a bit of a mess, but it is a genial mess, and one that will make you laugh. Which is the whole idea.
Even if you feel sheepish and abashed the next morning, it is hard to resist smiling at the antics of the NASCAR racing champion with two first names, a man, as the ads testify, "who could only count to #1."
As co-written by star Will Ferrell and director Adam McKay (who has a cameo as a feckless race car driver), Talladega Nights is not the kind of coherent, internally consistent comedy Little Miss Sunshine is. Rather, like the Saturday Night Live shows where Ferrell and McKay met, it is a series of sketches and set pieces, some of which work while others misfire.
Talladega Nights is ...
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