Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
#10 in my 2007 movie challenge was Talladega Nights. Thank you, Will Ferrell, for making me laugh out loud. This was a silly, relatively plot-free movie that seemed more like two hours of improv scenes strung together. But it hung together well enough for me; I liked it even better than I did Ferrell’s Anchorman. The extras were fun to watch, and the movie was full of quotable lines like, “Thank you, baby Jesus…” and “Shake…and…bake!” And my husband G. Grod’s favorite: “Hakuna Matata, beetches!” One of the reasons for my annual book and movie challenges is to stay intellectually agile. I can’t say this film contributed to that. But it did make me laugh. And a good comedy is hard to find.