REVIEW: THE CAMPAIGN
What's the last big movie SNL alum Will Ferrell has been in? "The Other Guys," way back in 2010. In that film, Mark Wahlberg played the straight man cop in that buddy movie, and Ferrell was the predictably goofy Allen Gamble. Ferrell plays the Michael Scott-type-person of authority who's not sure how he got the place in power and he's not sure what to do. In simpler terms, he plays really hilarious idiots. Of course, not all of his movies land, just look at "Land of the Lost" and "Semi-Pro." But the reason America's never turned its back on Ferrell and why he's a god in high school kid's standards (you know the type, who can recite "Anchorman" verbatim) is because his shtick totally works, and hasn't really failed. In "Everything Must Go" Naturally he's capable of more dramatic work, the man's a genius! His bitingly sad role in "Everything Must Go" was the anti Will Ferrell, a ...