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Steve Carell Meets Will Ferrell: Cracked Fantasy Casting

Ferrell’s highest-rated movie over on Rotten Tomatoes is The LEGO Movie with a whopping 96% critics score, followed by ELF at 85% and The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part at 84%. It makes sense that his top movies would probably be kids-oriented since those kinds of movies generally garner favorable reviews unless they’re really effin awful. What’s interesting is that, when it comes to his adult films, The Other Guys tops critics’ scores at 78%, followed by Wedding Crashers at 76%, and the second Anchorman movie at 75%. For real, Megamind is rated higher than the first Anchorman movie, Talladega Nights, and most of Ferrell’s earlier stuff that many of his biggest fans would probably want to be buried with when they die.

Of course, that’s the critics’ opinions, which we know can mean as much as a guy named Chazz giving you a compliment. The audience ratings on RT put Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy up in first place with 86%, followed by Zoolander with 80%, and then Wedding Crashers with 70%.

So what have we learned from this data, apart from the fact that one of the most popular SNL comedians who successfully transitioned to movies gets better RT scores for the films in which we don’t see his face much? Considering his kid’s films, Ferrell would probably do well playing a villain in a movie that stylizes its title with ALL CAPS. That, or some adult sports movie called A Guy Named Chazz. 

On to Steve Carell, who’s had great success both in film and television. What an overachiever. While he’s probably best known for his role as the insufferable Michael Scott in The Office, Carell’s most popular mainstream film — according to the scores and all of the internet rankings — is The 40-Year-Old Virgin, with critics giving him 85% and audiences 84%. It’s the closest the critics and public can get to actually agreeing on a movie, and we bet it’s largely because of this:


Steve Carell Meets Will Ferrell: Cracked Fantasy Casting
Source: Pinoy Daily News

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