Six words: Will Ferrell as a Nascar driver

Rating: 10/10 (10 August 2006)

That's all this movie really is;its just Will Ferrell as a Nascar driver. Will Ferrell started his career on SNL as(IMO)the cast member who carried the show. I found his brand humor to be quite refreshing and entertaining for a whole new generation of comedy fans. As the years went on Ferrell became too big to be tied down by SNL and his humor found a new home on the silver screen.
With films like Zoolander, Old School, and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy Ferrell seemed unstoppable and grew to be one of the leading comedy actors of Hollywood on par with(IMO)Jim Carrey. Then came the calls from a new project called Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. Commercially the movie was being crammed down our throats from Will Ferrell dressed up as the title character at the 2006 MTV Movie Awards to the never-ending advertisements on television.
Then came August 4, 2006 opening day;I saw the movie and found it,to my displeasure, to be pretty awful. The story was very predictable and the comedy acting was sub-par(thank god I got a laugh out of Molly Shannon's character). It seems as though Will Ferrell has become just another "Adam Sandler" in that every couple of months he makes a mindless comedy. As a result of this film Will Ferrell has gone down on my list of great comedy actors and also the whole movie to me was not really even a comedy but rather a 105 minute commercial for Wonder Bread,Perrier,Applebees,etc.
So for me the movie had no substance at all. It was just as it was when it was pitched by the producers to the studio as: "Six words: Will Ferrell as a Nascar driver" and nothing more.