THE HAWK REVIEW – WILL FERRELL’S DATED GOLF COMEDY JUST ISN’T THAT FUNNY
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Ferrell’s brash ladies man and loser golfer could have been hilarious. But comedy has sped up over the last two decades, and all the genital gags and dodgy references fall flat In the 2000s, American comedy had a rude awakening.
While the preceding decade had been all attractive sophisticates bantering in big cities, the new millennium arrived in a miasma of crude, cartoonish buffoonery: Austin Powers, American Pie, Dude, Where’s My Car? These were, sadly, the sacred texts of a millennial adolescence. In comparison, the work of the Frat Pack – a group of comic actors that included Ben Stiller, Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, Seth Rogen and Luke and Owen Wilson, plus writer-director Judd Apatow – seemed almost highbrow.
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- Topic: CULTURE — the feed headline centres on HAWK, REVIEW, WILL, FERRELL, DATED.
- Original feed: Culture | The Guardian.
- Published: 16 Jul 2026, 08:01 UK.
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- Culture | The Guardian: Ferrell’s brash ladies man and loser golfer could have been hilarious.
- Culture | The Guardian: But comedy has sped up over the last two decades, and all the genital gags and dodgy references fall flat In the 2000s, American comedy had a rude awakening.
- Culture | The Guardian: While the preceding decade had been all attractive sophisticates bantering in big cities, the new millennium arrived in a miasma of crude, cartoonish buffoonery: Austin Powers, American Pie, Dude, Where’s My Car?
- Culture | The Guardian: These were, sadly, the sacred texts of a millennial adolescence.
- Culture | The Guardian: In comparison, the work of the Frat Pack – a group of comic actors that included Ben Stiller, Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, Seth Rogen and Luke and Owen Wilson, plus writer-director Judd Apatow – seemed almost highbrow.
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