One of the worst movies a bad year

Rating: 1/10 (4 August 2006)

Talladega Nights is what happens when you let actors write their own material. Someone needs to tell Will Ferrell that just because he can get laughs with other peoples' material doesn't mean he can write a movie.
This movie was green lighted with a six-word pitch: Will Ferrell as a NASCAR Driver and the story, characters and plot never really got beyond the six-word simplicity. Every character in the film seems have an IQ of 70 or less and the jokes just aren't funny, and they keep coming, one awkwardly boring scene after boring scene.
Someone really needs to tell Ferrell that if no one believes your characters could possibly exist in any universe there is no reason to laugh, or believe them. I started wondering how people this stupid remember to breath.
Also the technical quality just isn't there, bad computer graphics, lighting, staging, all are of the quality typically found in Mad TV movie spoofs.
This is what happens when you let demographics control movie making. Studio Execs saw the bank Ferrell's last movies made and the NASCAR demographics and figured people will flock to see it no matter how big of a dog it is. Someone needs to grab Will Ferrell and let him know he can't write his own name much less a movie.