For a long time I was of the opinion that there was no movie so good that Will Ferrell couldn't ruin it. (Wedding Crashers is an example but if they'd accidentally cast him as one of the children running around the wedding in The Godfather, Coppola's career might have ended then and there.)

Stranger than Fiction helped a lot, enough so that Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby is an occasional insomnia/deep-cable guilty pleasure.