Synopsis
Galifianakis dreamed of becoming a star. But when Will Ferrell discovered his public access TV show, 'Between Two Ferns' and uploaded it to Funny or Die, Zach became a viral laughing stock. Now Zach and his crew are taking a road trip to complete a series of high-profile celebrity interviews and restore his reputation.
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Cast
- Zach GalifianakisZach Galifianakis
- Lauren LapkusCarol
- Ryan GaulCam
- JiavaniBoom Boom
- Will FerrellWill Ferrell
- Matthew McConaugheyMatthew McConaughey
- David LettermanDavid Letterman
- Peter DinklagePeter Dinklage
- Jon HammJon Hamm
- John LegendJohn Legend
Recommendations
- 88
RogerEbert.com
It’s antagonistic comedy that’s brilliantly designed so that nobody actually gets hurt. - 88
Chicago Sun-Times
“Between Two Ferns” is filled with hilarious alternate-universe moments. - 75
The A.V. Club
Between Two Ferns meanders; it invents often-pointless conflicts between its characters; it sometimes feels like a film casting around desperately for an emotional hook to rest itself upon.... It’s also deeply funny, surrounding a talented comedian with other talented comedians and letting them riff off of each other for a feature’s worth of length. - 70
IGN
Between Two Ferns: The Movie does its best to coat Zach Galifianakis' dense and dopey TV host with a larger story but, in the end, the best parts are still when it's just him glassily staring into the eyes of a movie star and telling them how much they suck at acting. - 63
The Verge
Between Two Ferns: The Movie is too much Between Two Ferns to fit into an episode but not enough movie for a sit-down-in-the-theater experience. Still, it’s companionable in the lowered-stakes world of Netflix films where pleasantness and a handful of highlights seem to matter as much as excellence. - 60
The Guardian
Perhaps the film’s overwhelming ace is an overarching awareness of just how pointless it really is, made with the same disposability with which it should be consumed. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
Despite being an alt-comedy Funny or Die production — far from the mainstream ethos of TV's 45-year-old sketch comedy king — Netflix's Between Two Ferns: The Movie is a modern-day SNL flick. - 50
Los Angeles Times
Like some of the feature-length spinoffs of old “Saturday Night Live” sketches that proliferated in the ’90s, it feels like a padded version of a bit that was a lot sharper in five-minute increments.
