Hints and tips:
...It was co-writer Andrew Steele who alighted on Husavik....
...Daddy’s Home is a funny Will Ferrell comedy. I’ll repeat that. It’s funny and it stars Will Ferrell. Brian Burns’ script riffs on the eternal, undeclared war between stepdads and dads....
...I won’t disclose any more, for fear of spoiling the movie (and stealing the thunder from Nigel Andrews’ FT review on Friday)....
...Walter Mitty needs a Jim Carrey or a Will Ferrell. Then again, perhaps Stiller was too busy shouting “action” behind the camera to provide enough of it, comically, in front....
...family man who wants to be James Stewart to Ferrell’s Claude Rains....
...Will Ferrell speaks Spanish throughout Casa de mi Padre. It’s a one-joke film and that’s the joke....
...Ferrell: “You mean you learned to dance like that sarcastically?”)....
...Nigel Andrews is away...
...Will Ferrell, we were wrong. Or right but outnumbered. On the other hand we have been right for 64 years regarding Frank Capra....
...Will Ferrell capers earnestly through a Journey to the Center of the Earth-style comic romp witless of script, wan of invention and pasty of imagery. (When will High-Definition live up to its name?)...
...The morning after China inebriated us with spectacle in the Olympics finale – courtesy of moviemaker-turned-Beijing-Barnum Zhang Yimou – we woke to reality with a splitting headache, writes Nigel Andrews...
...In Blades of Glory Will Ferrell and Jon Heder play the Torvill and Dean, or Martin and Lewis, of figure-skating....
...First-time filmmaker Paul Andrew Williams’s thriller is none of that: more an effing and blinding, and rather good, piece of UK crime verismo....
...But as gay “Formula Un” driver Jean Girard, racetrack rival to hero Will Ferrell, Cohen mashes consonants, wrings vowels and invents whole new gutturals....
...Ferrell does a virtual stand-up comedy set from Saturday Night Live. Shirley MacLaine, as Ferrell’s mother-in-law, plays to the gallery. Michael Caine as Kidman’s dad plays to the floorboards....
...“So if I was 30 years younger, yes, I’d have played the Will Ferrell character for sure....
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