Will Ferrell Archives

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)

Rating: ★★★

Jun 14, 1999Spy Movie Spoof

The second of the Austin Powers films is less sharp in its parody of the James Bond film and more focused on a series of broad scatological gags. Mike Myers owns the show in a trio of entertainingly gregarious performances

Director: Jay Roach

Actors: Mike Myers, Heather Graham, Verne Troyer, Seth Green, …

Category: Science Fiction

14 June 199921 November 2025 by Roog

Elf (2003)

Rating: ★★

Nov 25, 2003Ungainly Christmas Elf Comes to New York

Jon Favreau directed Christmas film premised entirely around the premise of 6'3" Will Ferrell as an ungainly Christmas elf. The film works entirely to the extent one has a tolerance for Ferrell's screen presence.

Director: Jon Favreau

Actors: Will Ferrell, James Caan, Zooey Deschanel, Mary Steenburgen, …

Category: Fantasy

25 November 200330 July 2026 by Roog

Bewitched (2005)

Rating: ★★

Sep 3, 2005Witch in Love/TV Series Remake

The hit 1960s sitcom is repackaged as a frothy Nora Ephron romcom that suffers from a fatal mismatching of a showboating Will Ferrell and a more subdued Nicole Kidman who do not seem to connect in any way as Darren and Samantha

Director: Nora Ephron

Actors: Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell, Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, …

Category: Fantasy

3 September 20058 September 2025 by Roog

Curious George (2006)

Rating: ★★

Jun 21, 2006Animation/Mischievous Monkey

An animated film based on a popular series of children's books about a mischievous monkey. Amiable but a film mostly intended for the pre-school set

Director: Matthew O'Callaghan

Actors: Will Ferrell, Frank Welker, Dick Van Dyke, David Cross, …

Category: Fantasy

21 June 200631 May 2020 by Roog

Stranger Than Fiction (2006)

Rating: ★★★½

Feb 26, 2007Man Discovers He is a Fictional Character

Quite reasonable meta-fiction where a surprisingly subdued Will Ferrell discovers he is a character in a novel and tries to rebel against his fate

Director: Marc Forster

Actors: Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, …

Category: Fantasy

26 February 200731 August 2020 by Roog

Land of the Lost (2009)

Rating: ★

Jun 11, 2009TV Series Comedy Remake/Prehistoric Lost World

Big screen revival of the children's lost world tv series that is now a loud and excruciating Will Ferrell vehicle that reduces the original into lowbrow farce. A majorly unfunny bomb on every level

Director: Brad Silberling

Actors: Will Ferrell, Anna Friel, Danny McBride, Leonard Nimoy

Category: Science Fiction

11 June 200920 June 2026 by Roog

Megamind (2010)

Rating: ★★½

Nov 16, 2010Animation/Comic Travails of a Super-Villain

DreamWorks animated film about a super-villain that might have worked better had its thunder not been stolen by the far superior Despicable Me a few months earlier

Director: Tom McGrath

Actors: Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, David Cross, …

Category: Science Fiction

16 November 20107 January 2025 by Roog

The Lego Movie (2014)

Rating: ★★★½

Feb 7, 2014Animation/Adventures in the Lego Universe

How much fun can a film based around Lego characters be? A film that overflows with cleverness, wit and energy. The most fun is in the film's creating a madcap mix-up of characters from different franchises

Director: Christopher Miller, Phil Lord

Actors: Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Will Ferrell, …

Category: Fantasy

7 February 20143 July 2026 by Roog

The Lego Movie 2 (2019)

Rating: ★★★

Mar 23, 2019Animation/Adventures in the Lego Universe

Sequel to The Lego Movie. This time the idea of the Lego universe, the crossovers and fourth-wall breaking gags are not as fresh but this still gets good mileage out of them

Director: Mike Mitchell

Actors: Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Tiffany Haddish, …

Category: Fantasy

23 March 20193 July 2026 by Roog

Spirited (2022)

Rating: ★★★

Dec 25, 2022Modernised A Christmas Carol

Imagine A Christmas Carol retold as a bromance where Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas Present abandon hauntings and become besties

Director: Sean Anders

Actors: Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds, Octavia Spencer, Patrick Page, …

Category: Fantasy

25 December 202225 December 2022 by Roog

Barbie (2023)

Rating: ★★

Sep 23, 2023Doll Enters the Real World

Less a film than a phenomenon, there is something ironic about a doll that is accused of promoting negative body standards ending up leading a women’s movement. Moria has just one or two issues with this.

Director: Greta Gerwig

Actors: Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon, …

Category: Fantasy

23 September 20233 December 2025 by Roog

Despicable Me 4 (2024)

Rating: ★★

Aug 16, 2024Animation/Comic Travails of a Super-Villain

More from the world’s cuddliest super-villain and those manic ritalin-deprived kids that are the Minions. Is there are life and creativity left in a franchise that has been milked for six films now?

Director: Chris Renaud

Actors: Steve Carell, Kirsten Wiig, Will Ferrell, Steve Coogan, …

Category: Science Fiction

16 August 202413 November 2025 by Roog