By: Frank D’Alessandro, Trying To Be News
If you like incredibly long and humorous dialogues that over exceeds the point trying to be made, then this movie is definitely for you. If you like the work of Sacha Baron Cohen, and find him and his characters on the Ali G Show hilarious, then this is the movie for you. If you hate NASCAR, then this might be the movie for you.
One thing I wasn’t cool with in
particular was the introduction of Cohen’s character. It seems that he just appears out of nowhere
without being introduced before the protagonist, Will Ferrell as Ricky Bobby,
meets him. What I mean to say is maybe
John Girard, Cohen’s character (he only has one in this movie), could have been
seen on T.V. or could have been in his home in
The minor characters did a great job in making the audience laugh, props go out to the drunken NASCAR owners wife, Ricky Bobby’s kids, Susan the nerdy but pretty girl, the Pit Crew leader (Michael Duncan) and of course Bobby’s best friend Cal Naughton Jr. (John C. Reilly)
The movie had its strange moment at the end of the film when Girard and Bobby engaged in a long kiss. The kiss probably lasted near a minute, but my hands were covering my face because I can’t watch mouth sparing between males for more than 6 nanoseconds (that’s 6x10^(-9) seconds).
The movie gets a 7/10. My sides weren’t splitting, the plots seemed to be forced at times, and there was too much same sex kissing, not that there’s anything wrong with that. Other than that the movie has the catchy “shake & bake” hand move, the extremely long dialogues that are hilarious, especially the one about Jesus, and Will Ferrell’s stupidity makes you forget about the bad day you had at work.