No Spoiler but the truth - Tasteless and Vulgar

Rating: 1/10 (12 August 2006)

What can I say about Ricky Bobby. This movie was horrible. The best scenes in the movie were shown on the various previews, and many scenes from the preview were not even in the movie like the line "I feel like a mongoose stalking his prey" and "I'm coming for you Ricky Booby" while Frenchie is sitting in the bathtub shaving his legs. This is not a movie kids should be taken to. The scene around the table saying grace to "Baby Jesus" was funny in the preview but in the movie it went too far. Ricky's kids were cussing up a storm and being disrespectful to their grandfather, appalling. I thought the hype leading up to this movie was a blatant attempt to get people to go to a movie by not letting on how tasteless it actually was. It would have been just as funny (in the funny parts) without the cussing. Will Ferrell's stock has just dropped a lot in my book. I was also disappointed to see Dale Earnhardt Jr. make a cameo in such a offensive movie, besides the Fox and NBC announcers and Jamie McMurray no other NASCAR drivers were actually seen. This movie just took NASCAR's image and flushed it down the proverbial toilet. I was appalled at the number of kids in the theater watching this with their parents, who should have walked their child out. Why does a movie have to be distasteful, disrespectful, and vulgar to be considered funny these days? They should have given this one a "R" rating and been done with it, if it was going to be an "R" I would hate to see what they cut out to get it to a "PG-13" rating....If you see this don't take the kids but get ready to laugh at the same funny things you saw in the preview and that is about it.