Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby Release
Date: August 4, 2006 Studio: Columbia Pictures Director: Adam McKay
Screenwriter: Will Ferrell, Adam McKay Starring: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Sacha Baron Cohen, Gary
Cole, Michael Clarke Duncan, Leslie Bibb, Jane Lynch Genre: Action, Comedy MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for crude and sexual humor, language, drug references
and brief comic violence) Official Website:
SonyPictures.com
Plot Summary: Ricky Bobby (Will Ferrell) has
always dreamed of driving fast - real fast - like his father, Reese Bobby, who
left the family to pursue his racing dreams. Early on, Ricky's mother, Lucy
Bobby worried that her boy was also destined to end up as a professional
daredevil on wheels.
Ricky Bobby first enters the racing arena as a "jackman" for slovenly driver
Terry Cheveaux and accidentally gets his big break behind the wheel when
Cheveaux makes an unscheduled pit stop during a race to gorge on a chicken
sandwich. Ricky jumps into the car and... so begins the ballad of Ricky Bobby.
Reviews
You
could blow a gasket laughing William Arnold: Seattle Post-Intellegencer
The film comes together to be a dead-on satire of a movie
genre, an expert comedy of character and an almost perfect
vehicle for Ferrell, who shines in a half-dozen or more of
the most elaborately crafted and howlingly funny routines
he's ever concocted...more
Redneck
Rhapsody Mike Ward: Richmond.com
Outfitted with more bloated southern stereotypes than the
parking lot at Shoney's and bursting with red, white and
blue, Ricky Bobby is a southern superhero who's both
charismatic and cavalier. And you know he just loves a good
Journey tune...more
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MPH Redneck Humor Drives Talladega Bob Strauss: LA Daily News
Will Ferrell's NASCAR spoof ain't aerodynamic
engineering by a long shot, but it is shrewdly uproarious at
a mentally engaged speed that "Smokey and the Bandit" movies
never clocked. Ferrell's second outing with
co-writer/director Adam McKay also beats their previous
"Anchorman" in its generally bright take on dumb behavior...more
Ricky
Skids To A Stop Peter Travers:
Rolling Stone You know
how it goes: Plot gets in the way. Somebody decides it's
time to get all warm and fuzzy. But until then, Talladega
Nights is a chance for Will Ferrell to let it rip as an
indelibly stupid NASCAR driver from North Carolina named
Ricky Bobby...more
The
Men Are Rowdy, the Cars Are Fast and the Product Placement
Is Extreme A.O. Scott: NY Times
A good-hearted spoof of the folkways of
stock-car racing, the movie is happy to mock the sport’s
eagerness to sell prime uniform and chassis space to
sponsors like Perrier, Wonder Bread and Old Spice. It also
is tickled at the eating habits of its fast-driving
characters, who wash down Domino’s Pizza and Kentucky Fried
Chicken with Coca-Cola and Budweiser and, when they want a
high-end night out, head for the nearest Applebee’s...more
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Release
Date: August 4, 2006
You
could blow a gasket laughing
