If you are a fan of Will Ferrell, name brands, NASCAR and rednecks this is the must see film of the summer. After a $47 million dollar opening weekend, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby became the largest opening weekend for Ferrell and blew away "Pirates 2" and "Miami Vice." Talladega nights rides on the same Anchorman/ Wedding Crashers comedy that Ferrell has perfected and made profitable since his days on Saturday Night Life. More TV 32 of all the reviews we have seen does the best job of attempting to explain this film:

"Talladega Nights" tells the tale of Ricky Bobby, a man who was born when his Daddy was racing his Ma to the hospital and got so carried away by speed that a quick slam on the brakes is all it took to pop little Ricky out. His Daddy takes a powder shortly after he is born, and as a result Ricky grows up with a hero worship complex and the need for speed.

An emergency at a racetrack where he works pushes Ricky behind the wheel of a NASCAR vehicle in the middle of a race and everything just clicks, including a phrase his drunken Daddy once said to him -- If you ain't first, you're last. So begins the raucous rise and fall of Ricky Bobby.

Talladega nights is a painful Will Ferrell stream of consciousness, void of intrigue and character development, littered with product placements and a commercial for Applebee's. The thrice repeated scene of Will Ferrell escaping from his race car in tighty whities, sent us into a stream of consciousness spiral of outbursts all pertaining to our desire to recoup two hours of our lives and $9.