Great movie, one fatal flaw that wasn't in the acting...

Rating: 8/10 (19 January 2007)

This was a great movie with one exception. When I go to see a movie that costs millions to make and contains big name stars, I expect for the editors to be able to remove the microphones that kept dangling over Will Ferrel's head and some of the co-stars. It was very annoying and distracted me from the conversations important to the plot. Not just once, about 15 times. Not just a little microphone, the entire microphone. Luckily, it started happening just over halfway into the movie. Unluckily, it was during the "epiphany" and most important part of the film.
Other than that, Will Ferrel was the perfect fit for this movie. I went into the theater expecting another goofy, silly performance. What I got was real, or as real as a movie with this plot can get. A genuine performance!
Very rarely will Will Ferrel be comically outdone in a film, and especially not by Dustin Hoffman. However, it fitted the film perfectly and Dustin Hoffman was the needed comic relief.
A must see.