Could have been so much better!

Rating: 7/10 (23 December 2008)

First, I love Will Ferrell in almost anything. He makes me laugh whether it's a movie or on Saturday Night Live. His comedic partnership with John C. Reilly is perfect. In this film, I am glad that I waited for it to come on television. It has a great cast but the writing needs to be better. I love actress, Jane Lynch, who I think is too young to play Ricky Bobby's mother but I'll take her anytime. She's brilliantly funny. Gary Cole is perfectly cast as his estranged father. Sacha Baron Cohen plays the openly gay French race car driver with an American husband. He is a stark funny contrast to Ricky Bobby's character. The casting is perfect but the writing is weak in my opinion. Will Ferrell is hysterical as Ricky Bobby and John C. Reilly is equally brilliant as his best friend and rival. I only wished that the writers worked a little harder to be less vulgar and more funny.