Films like Talladega Nights.

Talladega Nights (2006) reads as Cosy, kinetic, measured comedy / sport, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Step Brothers (2008) (2008) poster
1. Step Brothers2008

Keeps the heightened unreality and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Dumb and Dumber (1994) poster
2. Dumb and Dumber1994

Keeps the heightened unreality and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Happy Gilmore (1996) (1996) poster
3. Happy Gilmore1996

Keeps the heightened unreality and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Zoolander (2001) poster
4. Zoolander2001

Keeps the heightened unreality and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Kingpin (1996) (1996) poster
5. Kingpin1996

Keeps the heightened unreality and the running vein of humour; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) poster
6. Ace Ventura: Pet Detective1994

Keeps the heightened unreality and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Billy Madison (1995) (1995) poster
7. Billy Madison1995

Keeps the heightened unreality and the running vein of humour — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Flirting with Disaster (1996) poster
8. Flirting with Disaster1996

Keeps the heightened unreality and the running vein of humour; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Me, Myself & Irene (2000) (2000) poster
9. Me, Myself & Irene2000

Keeps the heightened unreality and the running vein of humour; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Vulgaria (2012) poster
10. Vulgaria2012

Keeps the heightened unreality and the running vein of humour; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Bo Burnham: Make Happy (2016) poster
11. Bo Burnham: Make Happy2016

Keeps the heightened unreality and the running vein of humour; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Old School (2003) (2003) poster
12. Old School2003

Keeps the heightened unreality and the running vein of humour; trades toward a grounded, familiar shape.

These are Talladega Nights’s neighbours — where are yours?

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