Good for cheap laughs

Rating: 4/10 (4 August 2006)

As stated in the title if you like movies that give you a cheap laugh then you will enjoy watching and laughing to this movie, however thats about as far as it goes. It's pretty close to the typical stupid Will Ferrel character and movie, but "Ricky Bobby" doesn't seem to work as well as Ron Burgandy did for Ferrel. This is basically Ferrel just doing his same over the top routine and loud yelling just in a southern accent and in a different setting.
The story is a weak one (not that I was expecting it to be strong) and is very bland and boring but the occasional loud yell or randomness that goes on in this movie keeps you awake. I found that the same jokes and routines were just being used over and over again from within this movie and from within Ferrel's other performances. There was never any exceptionally stupid or exceptionally great thing that went on to really keep me interested so it was pretty predictable, I used the analogy that if I had fallen asleep right after the beginning and woke up at the end I could of figure out what had happened in between.
Personally I'm not a Will Ferrel fan whatsoever, mainly because of the characters he always seems to play, the exception would be "Hobie" in Melinda Melinda but needless to say he's not one of my favorite actors and never will be if he keeps doing rolls like this one.