What A Lovable Dunderhead!
Posted on | March 1, 2008 at 1:57 pm | 5 Comments
Will Ferrell has another sports parody movie out this weekend, called Semi-Pro. I’m beginning to think we’re going to see Ferrell do one of these movies about every sport in existence. I hope the next one will be about Kabaddi (love to see him in those shorts), but I suspect that after NASCAR, Figure Skating, and now Basketball, he’ll move up to Hockey, Baseball, or Football. His lovable clueless smarmy naked goofball characters have apparently really touched something in the American psyche, but how long can he milk it for? Aren’t people tired of that yet? It’s like he’s remaking the same movie over and over again.
Seriously, what is the appeal of this doofus? I think I hate him. He reminds me of the guys I loathed in high school who I knew would grow up to become car salesmen. I admit he is not without his charm and he can be funny, but the typecasting is wearing a little thin. The parallel career to his of course is that of Jim Carrey, who milked his shtick for as long as he could, and look where he is now. Where is he now, anyway?
If Farrell wants a lasting, diverse career, he should do more movies like Stranger Than Fiction, which was a bit of a break from his usual character and was actually pretty good. Too bad he never got a chance to make that Confederacy of Dunces movie, as that would play into his strengths and had a chance of being entertaining also.
One of Ferrell’s next movies is Land Of The Lost, a remake of an old Sid & Marty Krofft Saturday morning kids show that I have fond memories of. But why remake another old TV show? Didn’t he (or anyone else) learn a lesson from the botched Bewitched remake? (Never saw that one, myself.) I’m trying to figure out what kind of tone they’re going to use for LotL, and I keep coming up blank. It seems kind of pointless to parody a Sid & Marty Krofft show, especially since that’s already been done brilliantly by Saul Of The Mole Men. (I still can’t figure out why Johnny Tambourine has to stay inside that canister, or what he was doing on the Strata mission in the first place, but I digress.) I can’t imagine them playing LotL even partially straight, as a big budget summer actioner or something (Jurassic Park 4?). Plus, it’s already been remade once.
I won’t be rushing out to see Semi-Pro this weekend. I never even saw Blades of Glory, though I kind of wanted to for Amy Poehler and Will Arnett at least. Ferrell does surround himself with talented people. Or maybe he just owes them from the old SNL days.
More cowbell!
Latre.
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5 Responses to “What A Lovable Dunderhead!”
March 1st, 2008 @ 4:46 pm
> It’s like he’s remaking the same movie over and over again.
So, Will Ferrel is the new Ben Stiller?
March 1st, 2008 @ 5:37 pm
So you hate him but you’d love to see him in Kibbadi shorts… someone is sending mixed homoerotiuc messages!
heh
Fahey xxxx
March 2nd, 2008 @ 10:20 pm
Yeah, I hate him, but I also want to have his baby. What’s up with that?
March 2nd, 2008 @ 11:09 pm
Less than you think.
Fahey xxxx
March 3rd, 2008 @ 6:32 pm
Problem is, “Semi Pro” has Andy Richter, David Koechner, Rob Corddry, Will Arnett and Steve Seagren in it too – who wants to miss them??
If the Bible-thumpers can get special versions of DVDs with the naughty bits trimmed, why can’t comedy afficionados get a DVD with the mainstream flavor-of-the-week star left out?