Will Ferrell has still got it. From movies like Eurovision, Spirited, and now You’re Cordially Invited—coming to Amazon Prime Video tomorrow—the 57-year-old movie star is every bit as hilarious, genial, and appealing as he was twenty years ago. And that’s thanks, at least in part, to his shift to streaming movies.
It’s hard to overstate just how big Will Ferrell was in the 2000s. He left Saturday Night Live to pursue a string of massive, quotable, box office hits—Elf, Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Step Brothers, just to name a few. For a good fifteen years, he was the undisputed king of comedy. But in the late 2010s, Ferrell—like many comedy movie stars—struggled to make a splash in the wake of shifting studio interest away from mid-budget comedies and toward superhero franchises. For a few years, much of Ferrell’s time was thus spent on the only kinds of comedies getting green lit:
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