Why will ferrell is funny

Has Ferrell ever looked this dispirited and listless? What if you threw an improv-comedy movie but no one bothered to show up? This is what happens. Remember how, in that SNL book, Ferrell represented the hip future of comedy, mocking the smug boomer shtick of a Chevy Chase? Ferrell has never felt, well, older than he does here, doing a silly Sherlock Holmes accent, vamping like crazy and basically sucking all the air out of every room he walks into.

John C. Reilly is back to try to recapture the old Step Brothers magic, and as game as he is, trying to get the band back together just reveals how oddly wooden and inflexible Farrell is becoming. A buffoon? So will you. Abrams in supporting roles — and Ferrell is completely wasted in a test run for his Old School role. Happy suburbanite who just gets in trouble when exposed to the seedier side of life. This movie makes you want to force everyone in it to get a haircut and a real job.

Perhaps the thinnest of all SNL skit-to-movie translations — and that really is saying a lot — Ferrell bobs his head a lot and mostly plays second fiddle to Chris Kattan, something that would never, ever happen again.

This guy just jumps up and down a lot. Whatever emotion and nuance went into the original goes out the window for the sequel, which introduces us to the overbearing fathers of Brad Ferrell and Dusty Mark Wahlberg.

Decried for being homophobic and racist in some quarters, Get Hard is really mostly just dumb. The better, more-daring version of Get Hard would scuttle political correctness, gay panic, and outmoded ideas about what constitutes masculinity. Instead, we get awkward penis jokes and a middle-aged white doofus trying to act black. A textbook example of how not to use Ferrell. Ferrell bugs his eyes out and sighs a series of increasingly desperate spit-takes, but this project was probably doomed from the get-go.

Going to the Ron Burgundy—Ricky Bobby idiot well one time too many, Ferrell plays Cam Brady, a lazy, cynical longtime congressman running against a local bumpkin Galifianakis. Especially in an era of juicy, tuned-in political shows like Veep and House of Cards , this misfire seems even more unforgivably tame — plus, its attacks on the Koch brothers are so inane, you almost feel bad for those wealthy bastards. Ferrell appears in the first two Austin Powers films as Mustafa, an ethnically ambiguous henchman to Dr.

As by-the-numbers as these kiddie sports comedies get, this one is particularly empty and rote. Suffice it to say: This will probably the final collaboration between Ferrell and Robert Duvall. I think there are very few of these people that I would come out and say I outright dislike them.

Guys watch those outtakes I posted above - I literally cried laughing the first few times I saw it. Anyone else think Will Ferrell isn't funny? Off-Topic Tavern. But hey, to each his own. I have never found Will Ferrell to be all that funny. George Carlin will always be my favorite though. Lots of funny stuff out there. Different strokes for different folks. The entire movie is filled with classic Will Ferrell lines and situations that no one could do better.

He has a way of handling the manic nature of a human raised as an elf better than anyone else before him. Well, there you have it. Some of the funniest and not so funny Will Ferrell movies from throughout his illustrious career. Will Downhill end up on this list. Philip grew up in Louisiana not New Orleans before moving to St. Louis after graduating from Louisiana State University-Shreveport.

When he's not writing about movies or television, Philip can be found being chased by his three kids, telling his dogs to stop yelling at the mailman, or yelling about professional wrestling to his wife. If the stars properly align, he will talk about For Love Of The Game being the best baseball movie of all time. Philip Sledge. Your Daily Blend of Entertainment News. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands. Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors.

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