Bad Movie, Bad Message, and Really poor Taste

Rating: 1/10 (9 August 2006)

This movie had a chance to be a really funny flick. It became so bogged down trying to parody all the characters that it lost direction. Ricky Bobbie was such an ego driven slimeball that I could find no sympathy for him. This movie badly needed a hero, we never find one. Anyone who is even remotely a Nascar fan should be incensed by how this film portrays their sport. The gay French Formula 1 driver really makes a bad film worse. Just the fact that he was French and from Formula 1 was enough to make him the anti-hero, but Ferrell just had to take this over the top also. No Southern dad would ever put up with the disrespect that his children showed their grandfather at the beginning of this film notwithstanding that they were straightened out later by their Grandmother. All in all this was a terrible waste of time and money.