| | |  | #1 NASCAR driver Ricky Bobby (Ferrell) stays atop the heap thanks to a pact with his best friend and teammate, Cal Naughton, Jr. (Reilly). But when a French Formula One driver (Cohen), makes his way up the ladder, Ricky Bobby's talent and devotion are put to the test. |
| Best Movie Ever Made. -Ricky Bobby
Features: DVD, Rated PG13, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 2.40:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), English, Subtitled
The fastest man on four wheels, Ricky Bobby (Will Ferrell) is one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR history. A big, hairy American winning machine, Ricky has everything a dimwitted daredevil could want: a luxurious mansion, a smokin' hot wife (Leslie Bibb) and all the fast food he can eat. But Ricky's turbo-charged lifestyle hits an unexpected speed bump when he's bested by flamboyant Euro-idiot Jean Girard (Sacha Baron Cohen, TV's Da Ali G Show) and reduced to a fear-ridden wreck. Losing his wife and job to best bud and fellow fool, Cal Naughton, Jr. (John C. Reilly), Ricky must kick some serious asphalt if he's to get his career back on the track, beat Girard and reclaim his fame and fortune. 'Cause as Ricky Bobby always says, If You Ain't First, You're Last!
""The funniest movie of the year!"" Dean Richards, WGN-TV
"Peter Travers, Rolling Stone" "Cohen and Ferrell riff off each other with inspired lunacy."
""TWO THUMBS WAY UP."" Richard Roeper and Guest Critic, Jay Leno, EBERT & ROEPER
"...brash, unbridled, even unhinged, but its cornpone humor is rich in parody, and its craftsmanship is superb..." Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
"Not just the funniest but the smartest comedy around by a mile." Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly
"It is Ferrell's best movie and the summer's funniest comedy so far." William Arnold, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Editor's Note
IN THEATERS AUGUST 4, 2006Will Ferrell and ANCHORMAN director Adam McKay team up again for this action-packed NASCAR movie.
| Features | Audio: English, French Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Dubbed: French | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby By: Annette Cardwell - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 12/2/2006 1:51 AM | |
America, meet your newest folk hero. His name is Ricky Bobby, and unlike his more humble legendary predecessors like Davy Crockett and such, this dim-but-daring NASCAR driver was born to win. He's a brand new kind of champion for the "shock-and-awe" America, living his life by one motto: "If you're not first, you're last."...read the full review |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Sony Pictures |
| Release Date: 9/23/2008 |
| Running Time: 108 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2006 | | Catalog ID: 14842 | | UPC: 00043396148420 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 2.40:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Entertainment Weekly
"TALLADEGA NIGHTS takes some very funny cheap shots...[The races] are scorchingly shot, and they lend the movie a zest that was missing from ANCHORMAN." -- Grade: B 08/11/2006 p.50New York Times
"Ricky Bobby is at once a creature of pure, extravagant absurdity and a curiously vulnerable, sympathetic figure." 08/04/2006 p.E13 Total Film
5 stars out of 5 -- "A pacy, racy, relentless blitz of big, fat belly laughs..." 09/01/2006 p.30 Uncut
4 stars out of 4 -- "TALLADEGA shifts gears dramatically as the zany cast orbiting Ferrell come into their own....[With] some brilliant comedy moments..." 10/01/2006 p.153 Sight and Sound
"[U]ndeniably funny....A film that generates significant mileage out of both celebrating and humbling American hickdom." 10/01/2006 p.81 Los Angeles Times 7 of 10
"Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" is a bit of a mess, but it is a genial mess, and one that will make you laugh. Which is the whole idea...As co-written by star Will Ferrell and director Adam McKay (who has a cameo as a feckless race car driver), "Talladega Nights" is not the kind of coherent, internally consistent comedy "Little Miss Sunshine" is. Rather, like the "Saturday Night Live" shows where Ferrell and McKay met, it is a series of sketches and set pieces, some of which work while others misfire...Though "Talladega Nights" is very much a guy comedy, it has found room for some sharp and amusing female roles. Leslie Bibb is all she should be as Ricky's glossy blond trophy wife, Carley; Jane Lynch stands up for comic sanity as Ricky's hardscrabble mom, Lucy Bobby; and Amy Adams, in a departure from "Junebug," plays Ricky's loyal assistant Susan. - Kenneth Turan
Reel.com 8 of 10
After crashing and burning with Kicking & Screaming and Bewitched, Will Ferrell puts the pedal to the medal with winning results in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. A laugh-out-loud funny send-up of NASCAR, the movie reunites Ferrell with his Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy director, Adam McKay. With the inestimable help of a crackerjack supporting cast headed by John C. Reilly and Sacha Baron-Cohen, a.k.a. "Ali G," Ferrell and McKay cheerfully skewer the NASCAR subculture and all things redneck in an inspired comedy that could be dubbed "The Fast and the Hilarious"...The perfect tonic to this summer's bloated, special effects-driven extravaganzas, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby crosses the finish line with flying colors. - Tim Knight
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