Talledega Nights, crashing before the race begins

Rating: 2/10 (4 August 2006)

Will Ferrell has a comedic talent that can endear him to his fans. This is usually seen in reruns of Saturday Night Live when he was a star of that show. Unfortunately, there is no endearment in this movie. He was rarely funny. Sad to say he was at his funniest in 30 minute intervals. The movie was horribly slow and unappealing. What was funny was that because the movie was so dull and tedious, when a funny part arrived, I found myself in tears. Partly because there were a few hilarious scenes and partly because I was so grateful that something finally made me laugh.
I went to the movie hesitantly and I was tempted to walk out about 20 minutes into the movie but I struggled and stayed. In the past, I have found myself completely disappointed with other Ferrell movies but I refuse to believe he is going to be so unfunny. I want to say he should have stayed in TV doing skits but thats unrealistic. What he really needs to do is find a movie that will allow him to be his old endearing self instead of the pitiful characters he seems to do quite a lot of. Hopefully, his next movie can remove that "jerk" from his portrayals.
Not a single one of the characters was funny to the point that you wanted to see more of that character. More often, I was thinking, "go away".
I guess the funniest part of the movie was in the closing credits when Ferrell, Reilly and Duncan were seen enjoying themselves in out-takes. Glad they had fun but it is too bad I didn't.
This movie finished 2 out of 10 laps as far as I was concerned. Once it hit the pits, it never got back in the race.