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Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)
Bad Movie, Bad Message, and Really poor Taste
This movie had a chance to be a really funny flick. It became so bogged down trying to parody all the characters that it lost direction. Ricky Bobbie was such an ego driven slimeball that I could find no sympathy for him. This movie badly needed a hero, we never find one. Anyone who is even remotely a Nascar fan should be incensed by how this film portrays their sport. The gay French Formula 1 driver really makes a bad film worse. Just the fact that he was French and from Formula 1 was enough to make him the anti-hero, but Ferrell just had to take this over the top also. No Southern dad would ever put up with the disrespect that his children showed their grandfather at the beginning of this film notwithstanding that they were straightened out later by their Grandmother. All in all this was a terrible waste of time and money.
The Sting II (1983)
I liked it.
The movie lacks the polish of the original but I thought it was very entertaining. How can you go wrong with Jackie Gleason? Mac Davis played the confused confidence man to a T. He always seemed to be just a little behind everyone else. This movie seems to share characters names with the original "Sting" but the names could have been completely different and probably should have been as this would have let the movie stand or fall on it's own merit. I saw this movie actually before I saw the original and maybe that's why I enjoyed it so much more than some of the other reviews that I have read. The double crossing and conning the con men seem to fall into place easily and being naive as I am, I was surprised when Torres shows up at the train station for his cut. I'll just say this, This is one of those movies that I always watch when I find on TV when channel surfing, no matter where I come in, I always watch it to the end.