'Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga' cracks the top ten in our ranking of every Will Ferrell movie. See how it stacks up against his best
Photo-Illustration: Vulture This post was originally published in 2015. We have updated it to include Ferrell’s recent work, including this week’s Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, currently out on Netflix.
34. The House Has Ferrell ever looked this dispirited and listless? What sounds like a solid, if high-concept, premise — a couple attempt to pay for their daughter’s college by setting up a casino in their suburban neighborhood — is DOA here, quite possibly the worst movie everyone involved has ever been in.
30. Daddy’s Home 2 The first Daddy’s Home was a mildly resonant comedy about blended families and macho posturing — it was silly but had something to say about how hard it is to be a good dad. Whatever emotion and nuance went into the original goes out the window for the 2017 sequel, which introduces us to the overbearing fathers of Brad and Dusty .
26. The Campaign One of those can’t-miss comedic premises in which everybody involved seems to have stopped thinking after the logline, The Campaign brought together Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, and Recount director Jay Roach for a political comedy in a presidential-election year that had zero bite and almost as many laughs. Going to the Ron Burgundy–Ricky Bobby idiot well one time too many, Ferrell plays Cam Brady, a lazy, cynical longtime congressman running against a local bumpkin .
22. Kicking and Screaming Elf showed us that Ferrell can be perfect in a kid’s comedy, but it has to be the right comedy by the right director: Jesse Dylan, of How High, is no Jon Favreau. As by-the-numbers as these kiddie sports comedies get, this one is particularly empty and rote. You would think that Ferrell spending two hours screaming “LIAR!” at children trying to play soccer would be a lot funnier than this is.
18. Daddy’s Home Ferrell reteamed with his Other Guys co-star Mark Wahlberg for this much-watered-down, still not entirely terrible family comedy. The premise — a stepfather and father fight over their kids’ respect and love — is so basic and hackneyed that both Ferrell and Wahlberg get extra credit for just making it through this one intact. Ferrell is actually the subdued one here, the nerdy uncool dad, letting Wahlberg do most of the comedic lifting.
14. Blades of Glory A perfectly cromulent, inoffensive Ferrell comedy, one that feels a little familiar and safe but still has its fair share of laughs. Jon Heder is a dull vacancy that Ferrell keeps trying to spur into action, but the rest of the supporting cast is a hoot, particularly Will Arnett and Amy Poehler as a rival skating duo. Relatively thin, even for a Ferrell comedy, it has its moments, usually when it just points the camera at Ferrell and lets him do his thing.
10. Stranger Than Fiction Ferrell received one of his two Golden Globe nominations — the other, inexplicably, was for The Producers — playing Harold Crick, a joyless IRS office drone who, predictably, knows more about numbers than love.
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