A 6.7 IMDb rating???? Are you serious?

Rating: 2/10 (19 December 2004)

As Oddball might say "this is one dirty rotten awful stinking awful movie". I say it too.
I don't get this place (IMDb). How could this 'TV star makes hour-and-a-half movie from five-minute TV skit that wasn't all that funny' get a 6.7??? After using IMDb for a few years, a 6.7 is a pretty high rating. IME a 6.7 is something of a safe bet. Maybe there's something wrong with the HTML code and that 6.7 should actually show up as a 2.7 - 2.7 is fair for this piece of crapola.
But I admit I only watched the first ten minutes - it was all I could stand. Too often I'd watch a movie, not too impressed but thinking "something will happen, give it some time. Something will happen, give it some time. Something will happen, give it some time. 'The End'". I've succumbed too often to that naively hopeful (and unrealistic) 'it will get better' line of thought. Will's character is central and so poorly done that ten minutes was enough to tell me that this was definitely a 'something will happen movie'. But this time I took the hint.
I'm a HUGE Will Ferrell fan. He was hilarious and a real standout on SNL and most/all of his characters struck me as very original. And extremely well-played. If this movie was his SNL audition he would've ended up bussing tables or something. IT STINKS! It looked to me like this was going to be a rip-off of the John Travolta weatherman in "Lucky Numbers". The problem was that THAT was well-played. And it was hysterical (the Denny's scene). This was neither. Subject myself to an entire hour and a half of this? I think not.
I'm pretty sure this never was an SNL skit but it makes my point. Ferrell has such a huge and uncommon talent for playing an over-the-top caricature with such nuance that it's hysterically believable. I think his caricatures are hysterical not on their own but because with his talent he can bring so much to them. In "Anchorman" Ferrell looks like "I don't know about this; let me give it a try and see if I can get something out of it." He doesn't.
So, aggravated at the huge let-down I made the decision to not be suckered into yet another POS that I would've ended up kicking myself for wondering why I couldn't take the hint early on and get out. So I got out.