Talla-blog-a Nights

After my very late night, I got out of the house again this afternoon and caught a showing of Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby in Bardstown. The movie is an oddity, in that it manages to be insanely funny despite pretty much every character being a total jerk, borderline retarded, or both.

Will Ferrell is great as always, and is the only member of the cast that I thought was worth talking about. Gary Cole, John C. Reilly, and Michael Clark Duncan are just kinda there, and Sasha Baron Cohen appears to be in the movie only to deliver nearly unintelligible lines in a thick (and unconvincing) French accent while making Ferrell's character look like a homophobe.

But despite all that, the movie did make me laugh. That's really all that can be asked for, right? So I'm gonna give Talladega Nights a thumbs in the middle with three and a half stars, leaning towards four.

Not much else to talk about, so this one's gonna be short. Out.