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The Will Ferrell Sad Walk is a thing of tragicomic beauty.
Its all part of Ferrells crypto-adolescent charm.
Those flattened, great stone lips of his seethe eloquently with childish despair.
He can be as inconsolable as he can be overbearing.
Theres not much to spoil, broadly speaking.
You know where the film is headed.
She enables his delusions, even though shes the one with the real talent.
The filmmakers dont have to lean too hard into the silliness.
More importantly, however, it crystallizes Ferrell and McAdamss antics.
And in that kind of heightened atmosphere, even the weak jokes land.
