Will Ferrell = brilliant man. From the makers of Anchorman, comes a similarly themed fable about rebel NASCAR driver Ricky...
Will Ferrell = brilliant man. From the makers of Anchorman, comes a similarly themed fable about rebel NASCAR driver Ricky Bobby (Ferrell). He's a champion and a national hero, alongside loyal racing partner Cal Naughton (John C. Reilly) - collectively known as 'Thunder and Lightning'. That is until a new teammate arrives, French F1 driver Jean Girard (Sacha Baron Cohen) who challenges the duo for NASCAR supremacy.
Shaken by the pressure of new competition, Bobby has a a nasty crash and is out of the game. He quickly hits rock botttom: his wife leaves him for Cal, Jean become #1 and even his children turn against him, subscribing to Bobby’s sage advice that "if you’re not first, you’re last".
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72 %186 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
73 %554,891 reviewsAudience score rating
"He also has a genius for sniffing out pop-cultural fixtures and embodying them in a way that goes beyond easy, obvious parody. Like Ron Burgundy, the hero of “Anchorman,” Ricky Bobby is at once a creature of pure, extravagant absurdity and a curiously vulnerable, sympathetic figure... As a cultural artifact, Talladega Nights is both completely phony and, therefore, utterly authentic. Or, to put it differently: this movie is the real thing. It's finger lickin' good. It's eatin' good in the neighborhood. It's the King of Beers. It's Wonder Bread..."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"Funny. Funnier. And more fun. And then the fun skids to a stop. You know how it goes: Plot gets in the way. Somebody decides it's time to get all warm and fuzzy. But until then, Talladega Nights is a chance for Will Ferrell to let it rip as an indelibly stupid NASCAR driver from North Carolina named Ricky Bobby..."
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Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone"Not just the funniest but the smartest comedy around by a mile... At its best, it scales the heights of cinematic Dadaism and affirms that Ferrell and McKay are among the few (along with Alexander Payne, David O. Russell and The 40 Year-Old Virgin director Judd Apatow, who has producer credit here) trying to breathe new life into the atrophied American screen comedy..."
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times"From its pitch-perfect title through just about every detail, this sendup of sports-triumph movies maintains the right parodic pitch, if not always the highest mph on the laugh speedometer..."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood ReporterTalladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby | Details
- Rating
- M, Moderate sexual references, moderate coarse language
- Runtime
- 108
- Genre
- Comedy, Sport
- Country of origin
- USA
