It's very stupid but also very funny

| Mar 23, 2025

What else can you say about Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby? It’s one of the best comedies of the 2000s, a rip-roaring Bush-era satire of American excess and full-throttle competition.

| Aug 21, 2023

Ricky Bobby may not be as well known as the other RB [Ron Burgundy], but the film's carefree silliness has plenty of funny bits and pieces.

| Jan 23, 2023

The perfect summer movie.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 25, 2020

We are facing an attractive comedy, fresh and summery, with memorable moments. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Feb 14, 2020

Has no idea when a joke has gone on too long.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 6, 2019

Talladega Nights holds up well, thanks to a clearly improv-first on-set culture.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 5, 2019

In the 2000s, Will Ferrell had an enviable run of hit comedies. To my mind, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby is the funniest of the batch.

| Dec 16, 2017

It's also a typical Ferrell vehicle, meaning it has his usual flat delivery and inside jokes. This particular style of comedy is odd, it's slow, it's kind of dumb and people seem to love it.

| Aug 23, 2017

You pretty much have to like Will Ferrell to like Talladega Nights, it's his film through and through. But if you do, you're in for a ride.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 21, 2011

Often a one-note joke that goes on way too long...

| Apr 29, 2009

Talladega starts out slow, picks up speed in the middle, and nearly crashes and burns in the end.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 23, 2009

The movie takes a piecemeal approach that allows for several guffaw-inducing comic bits, but doesn't hold together enough for a sustained comic experience.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 21, 2009

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 20, 2008

The script by Ferrell and director Adam McKay, a parody of sports biopics, takes the same freewheeling approach that served them well on Anchorman, but with a more mean-spirited edge.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

A comedy with horsepower to spare.

| Jul 31, 2008

Showcases Will Ferrell's comedy genius to perfection.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 31, 2008

Playing to his strengths, star and co-writer Will Ferrell reaps many good comic moments early on in Adam Mckay's feature to compensate for a sluggish second half.

Full Review | Jul 25, 2008

Will Ferrell and director/writing collaborator Adam McKay have carved out a comfortable comic niche in taking confidently clueless oafs and pulling the rug out from under the core of resolutely prototypical alpha male existence.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 25, 2007

Check your brain at the box-office to enjoy this brand of politically-incorrect hilarity poking fun mostly at gays, women and the French, all aimed at a redneck crowd with an average I.Q. of about 75.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 14, 2007