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Rating: 3/10 (6 August 2006)

Talladega nights, is a piece of a certain type of southern, backwoods, moonshine, uneducated, foul mouthed, simple minded, "Bobby Lee" worshiping Americana. The picture, traffics in stereotypes of French people as homosexual, haute culture snobs. This is simply not true. This is the kind of film that Winston Smith's neighbor would have seen, we all know the one, the simple nationalist who was turned in to the thought police by his own son for not being conformist enough. The France bashing appeals to this simplistic nationalism. Unfortunately it is just this type that votes for G.W.B repeatedly. There is an attempt at a story, weak as it is about fathers and sons. There is nothing oedipal about the conflict, it is simply pathetic interruption between racing shots and anti-France jokes. Should you be dragged to see this, don't pay, get someone else to and Bonne Chance! tu voudrais un "barf bag"!