With all the movies about superheroes and aliens and beloved former presidents who fight vampires floating around, The Campaign has sort of flown under the radar. That’s a shame, because it stars Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis as two Southern politicians, with Jason Sudeikis in a supporting role, which is like a comedic dream team. It was also written by Shawn Harwell and Chris Henchy, who work together on Eastbound and Down. The bad news? It’s directed by Jay Roach, who had one of the best comedy casts ever assembled in Dinner for Schmucks and still made one of the most painfully unfunny comedies I’ve ever seen. …Game Change kinda sucked too. Also, Will Ferrell seems to be doing his George W. impression the entire time. Hmmm.
“Uday and Falaffel?” Really? That’s a joke you thought was strong enough to include? More than three people read this script and you left that in there? Jesus, that’s worse than the “nocturnal, like a bat” joke from Jack and Jill. You have to wonder what the Jay Roach editing process looks like. Because in my mind it looks like Jay Roach lighting farts with producers’ money.
Opens August 10th. Rated Arrrggh for Pirates, f*ck you.
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I actually think the Falafel joke was not as bad as the “Yamaha” joke. I made that joke when I was eight.
The falafel and “Yamaha” jokes are both awful. But they’re not as bad as nocturnal. They’re about on par with the Dark Shadows “Are you stoned?” “They tried to stone me, it didn’t work” exchange.
No way, the stoned joke is way better than falaffel. At least stoned is a double entendre of sorts. Falaffel doesn’t even fucking rhyme. “What are Sarah Palin’s kids’ names again? Trig and cheeseburger?” Fuck, even that’s funnier than Uday and falaffel. Just typing that makes me angry.
The stoned joke is about a big of a stretch as they could make to get the joke to work. It’s like they had the idea of the joke they wanted to make and they gave up halfway through. Falafel and Yamaha make sense. They’re not funny and they were probably written by Will Ferrell’s kid, but they make sense. Nocturnal still makes no sense at all.
I signed in just to say that this should be its own discussion thread. I’d love to see the debate about which is the worse joke and why. You guys are off to an amazing start.
I see your falaffel joke and raise you one, “Ready the horses” “We don’t have horses…(wait for it)…we have a Chevy.” And Dark Shadows takes the gold.
Horrible, horrible jokes. But still better than anything I saw in the Dictator trailer.
Fake beards are so funny!!!
The best joke in “Dark Shadows” trailer is the one about impregnating Chloe Moretz.
Hey, what are you guys doing here? Huh? I didn’t even hit post yet! But I… yes, I understand these rights as they’ve been read to me, but…
Ugh. Recycled impressions. George Bush vs Seth Galifianakis. Trailer would’ve been 1,000 better with Powerman 5000 “When World’s Collide” as background music.
+1
The Seth Galifianakis bit was the worst part of Zach’s hour special, now they want us to watch a whole movie with him and Wil Ferrell chewing scenery? No thanks.
ARE YOU READY TO GO
‘CUZ I’M READY TO GO
WHAT’CHU GONNA DO BABY, BABY!??!
Oh. So. They knew internal affairs was setting them up the whole time?
HAHAHAHAHA republicans are stupid. Roll credits
Yikes.
I went into the trailer really wanting to laugh, but….why did Will and Zach do impressions of stupid people and not tell any jokes? Is the political process so bereft of fodder that this is the best they could come up with? Hopefully they have some actual humor saved for the movie.
It’s like trying to make a parody of a comedy. It just doesn’t work.
This comedy could’ve been saved if they had based Ferrell’s nemesis on Alvin Green.
It’s sort of Ricky Bobby, too. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, because Talladega Nights is underrated.
Not that I think this looks great, but I would be extremely disappointed if a movie with this cast and this premise sucked, so I’m trying to be optimistic.
As long as we’re splitting hairs here, Ferrell’s GWB is a truncated, small-mouthed accent (Texas = “terxus”), while this character has the elongated vowels and flamboyance of a southeastern gulf resident (Texas = “Tayuhxas!”)
I still think there’s a good movie back in there somewhere…I’m hoping it’s just a case of some trailer editor trying to isolate and paste in “funny parts”. Like for the falaffel bit…what’s really funny is that he’s trying to say his opponent *might* be secretly be the son of Saddam Hussein…really the part about the sons’ names should have just been left out.
Jesus Christ. That if the movie is anything like the trailer this will be worse than Dinner For Schmucks. DFS was painful 95% of the time but before I got too angry I did laugh once or twice. This made me angry before a minute in…
Plus this is automatically worse. No Paul Rudd reaction shots…
Ken Jeong just tweeted that these guys need to turn it down a notch!
fuckin halarious
“Do I sometimes fantasize about their undergarments?…”
So we’re just giving Will Ferrell lines from other Will Ferrell movies now?… interesting strategy, Hollywood… let’s see where you’re going with this