Burgandy: Drunk On His Own Name

Rating: 3/10 (30 January 2005)

Funny somewhat, but not until further in. Jokey stereotypes about past decades and their idiosyncrasies are enjoyable for about two minutes but to stretch them out into a movie is merely a waste of money, time and talent. The laugh-out-loud stuff was incidental and I'm glad I didn't pay to see it at the movies. (One wonders, however, how a show like "That '70's Show" can be so popular when it's supposedly based nothing but 70's attitudes and stereotypes from a particular decade in America.) On the other hand, "Boogie Nights" worked well because it wasn't purely about being funny; it had enough tragedy mixed in to engage the viewer.
Ferrall is extremely talented and funny but as is the problem with casting comics is that most often they are used to pump up weak concept and the comic's ego is usually so big that they end up telling the director what to do or both.