“Talladega Nights” is a movie about a fictional NASCAR driver, Ricky Bobby, who needs to build things back up to reach the ...

It’s impossible to watch Talladega Nights without thinking of the 2004 movie Anchorman. They’re the same film, and it’s likely because both movies were directed and written by Adam M ...

The NASCAR-oriented comedy Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby knows there’s a line between stupid and clever, and that there’s fun to be had by vaulting berserkly from one side to the ...

The new NASCAR-themed comedy Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby —conceived by Ferrell and his Anchorman collaborator Adam McKay—may go too far in the other direction.

The existence of movies like Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby is, I believe, the reason that intelligent life from other planets seem to prefer not visiting here.

Funny. Funnier. And more fun. And then the fun skids to a stop. 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 ...

Talladega Nights tells the deeply silly story of redneck racing legend Ricky Bobby (Will Ferrell), the type of man who feasts on KFC and Taco Bell, and brags about his “smoking hot” trophy ...

For me, the character Ricky Bobby is a NASCAR variation of George W. Bush. From the moment Will Ferrell began speaking, the image revisited my mind of his obscure performance hidden within the DVD ...

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby Simultaneously teasing and loving a subject doesn't make for easy comedy, but writer-star Will Ferrell and director/co-writer Adam McKay pull it off ...

Talladega opens on Ricky Bobby's birth (on the backseat of a car going 105), zooms through his youth (his daddy, played by Gary Cole, tells him "if you ain't first, you're last") and catapults ...

Talladega Nights’ comic punch lands so squarely because there’s no sniping, no pointing and laughing at the NASCAR culture the movie piggy-backs on.