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The Campaign

2012

Jay Roach

Will Ferrell, Zach Galifianakis, Jason Sudeikis, Sarah Baker ...

5.0

3,809

Comedy Two rival North Carolina politicians with presidential aspirations tangle with one another. Long-term Congressman Cam Brady (Will Ferrell) makes a huge public gaffe and, for the first time in his career, is forced to fight an election campaign against another candidate — Marty Huggins (Zach Galifianakis), unwitting big-business stooge and manager of the local tourist office.

	Author	Review
United States	Joe Morgenstern The Wall Street Journal	"Maybe the surreal realities of the current campaign really are beyond satire, ridicule, parody or ready comprehension, but this ultimately puerile gagfest has little reach and less grasp"	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"Why are Huggins and Brady both Republicans? I'll save you the trouble. It's because Hollywood is run by a lot of rich liberals (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis trade barbs and sling mud, but the humor is inconsistent and the political satire lacks bite (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Michael Rechtshaffen The Hollywood Reporter	"Ferrell and Galifianakis make for entertaining rivals in a flimsy political satire that too often mistakes bad taste for comic acuity"	NEG
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"'It's a mess' is the campaign slogan of Marty Huggins, played by Galifianakis. He's referring to the state of government. But he might as well be describing the movie in which he co-stars (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	POS

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