Blog Review: Talledega Nights

You know, we were all in the mood for mindless nonsense, so when this movie arrived in the mail we were all truly thrilled. However, the movie was a disappointment to me. Although the first half was as mindless and sophomoric as I had hoped; the second half had to get all "bad guy turns good" and moral-y and I HATE that in a movie. It was like they had a plan for 2 hours of trashy movie, which they set up in the first part, then some movie exec said, um, no, ok now what we need you to do is turn this into a feel good movie, and the people writing it didn't want to do it, and didn't try very hard. I give it a 2.