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Will Ferrell: You're Welcome America - A Final Night with George W Bush (2009)

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Summary: Will Ferrell portrays George W. Bush for the last time in this Broadway show where Bush shares with the audience his complex thoughts on his life while he was still in Texas as well as his experience being, arguably, the worst ever president of the United States. (whobody)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Directed By: Marty Callner
Written By: Will Ferrell
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na Daffy6964
80
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na jammastrjess
83
T7
na Junior1919
50
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na IMDb-byvotes
70
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na ludvigsen
60
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na silverelias
90
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na LesterGroans
72
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na admiralmpj
65
T6
na DaeSanye
6
T6
na foxie4
70
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na nminichino
30
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na Scarface
70
T6
na JDHowell3
80
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na kevinjoseph
61
T5
na Budhisattva
66
T1
na krf7
50
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na explorer
55
T3
na Bulldoggen
55
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na Jake_R
88
T10
na klanc11
76
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na DavidBlast
15
T1
Painfully lame. Surely with a mark as easy as George W. there's no need for dick jokes (and I'm not talking about the Cheney kind). Ferrell fumbles in and out of character, and this Bush is never close to being as funny or poignant as, say, Jon Stewart's version. After 90 minutes of missing the target completely, the most memorable thing was the breakdancing Secret Service guy, and he wasn't funny either.
na pitkju2
30
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na Brunis91
100
T10
na jkwall
7
T7
na LmanofMGS3
84
T5
na daniel
5
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na DMCrimson
74
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na Mr Thorup
80
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na hoolie
75
T5
na fletch
75
T7
na Bradyfan12
75
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na mundy767
83
T8
na Tripwyre
65
T5
It's no longer fresh, and the overall quality of this special is fairly inconsistent, but when it hits, it really hits hard. Bush remains a great source of caricature humour and no one hits him with the fierce absurdity of Ferrell. Stuff like recounting getting lost in a mineshaft on the Bush family property is so incredibly funny, as are a number of under-reported presidential initiatives. The jokes can be a bit easy, but if this is Ferrell retiring the character, he's going out in fine form.
na pascally
31
T3
na JohnSandwich
60
T5
The 3 YouTube trailers were utterly hilarious so I was pretty pumped; sadly, the show does not live up to those trailers, and while I like Ferrell and it certainly is very funny at times, in the end this was a bit of a disappointment.
na Filmgoer.fi
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na knicknut
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na Mohko
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na JackDurden
6
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na Void
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na Pikkewyn
8
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na Zeno
74
T5
na IronMAN
60
T3
na Piglet
65
T5
na timmo
80
T5
Ferrell has put more work into the other things he's done, but that doesn't mean this isn't brilliant. George W. Bush talking about pumping money into a Morroccan monkey army is probably one of the funnier jokes of the last several years.
na imdb
72
T8
na pillowpants
84
T9
na Beefbro
65
T3
na Farzan
75
T7
na tielardurdin
40
T1
na Koburn
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T7
na canadianor
45
T3
Not much funnier than a night at the local stand-up comedy club, "Will Ferrell: You're Welcome America - A Final Night with George W. Bush" takes easy pot-shots at the former President of the United States. Will Ferrell was definitely the best George W. on SNL, but those segments were short and topical. Now, these jokes have been told numerous times and there's not much added here. The production adds a bit, but also opens it up for easy jokes, like showing a penis for the sake of it.
na ckylevi
87
T8
na csomay
65
T3
na TheDiceman
50
T4
A good impression that gets boring quite rapidly.
na hotdogfarmer
1
T1
na dst7175
77
T8
na NazTNeto
85
T4
na themadelf66
75
T6
na BBB
10
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na tef
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T3
na Crazy Jack
72
T6
na vheujge
75
T9
na madiso
60
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na mattybgame
56
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na ReCreation07
83
T3
na MadMan
90
T8
na Totoro.
30
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na Bacano
55
T6
na doctor7
36
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First off I'll say flat out that I am a fan of Will Ferrell so when I say that this is completely lackluster I want to be clear that it's not a knee-jerk "It's Ferrell so it sucks" reaction. There are some good jokes in here and it's nice to see Bush get the absolute piss taken out of him after so many atrociously bad decisions as president. Still it's just not very entertaining and ends up being a lackluster, boring at times, cheap riff.
Average Tier 4.89 from 70 Rankings rss