Steve Carell makes the movie worth it.

Rating: 6/10 (13 January 2005)

What makes this movie so funny is not, surprisingly, Will Ferrell. Instead, it is Steve Carell playing Brick Tamland. Every single line he gives is great, in context or out.
For example: "I don't know what we're yelling about!!" Which is followed by some more yelling by the rest of the cast, and then he chimes in again with, "Loud noises!!!"
Mostly, it's the matter-of-fact way he delivers the lines. The character has an IQ of 43 (his own words), so he shouldn't know that what he is saying is all that funny anyway.
Nothing is really Oscar material, but it's not really as bad as the previous comment would have you believe.