Will Ferrell’s Movies Put Into 4 Handy Categories

Lifestyle writer for FiveThirtyEight.com, Walt Hickey has sorted all of Will Ferrell’s movies into 4 distinct categories. Then, he takes it a step further and placed all these films on a graph where each one lands in a spot comparing its box office gross with how the movie did critically according to Rotten Tomatoes. The four categories that Will Ferrell’s films land in according to Hickey on FiveThirtyEight.com include:

The Sex Panthers. These films include “A Night at the Roxbury” (1998), “The Suburbans” (1999), “Bewitched” (2005), “Kicking & Screaming” (2005), “Semi-Pro” (2008), “Land of the Lost” (2009) and “Casa de mi Padre” (2012). These are poorly rated films receiving low Rotten Tomatoes scores. These Will Ferrell films are not only criticized, they also didn’t do great at the box office.

The Frat Pack category includes “Old School” (2003), “Anchorman” (2004), “Talladega Nights” (2006), “Blades of Glory” (2007), “Step Brothers” (2008), “The Other Guys” (2010), “The Campaign” (2012) and “Anchorman 2″ (2013). These movies are categorized by Walt Hickey as having “a fellow Frat Pack member or was directed by Adam McKay”. The core of Will Ferrell’s filmography lives in this category with decent Rotten Tomatoes ratings and good showings at the box office.

The Weirdos contain Will Ferrell’s off beat comedies that got good scores, but performed horribly at the box office. They include “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back” (2001), “Melinda and Melinda” (2004), “Stranger Than Fiction” (2006) and “Everything Must Go” (2010).

The Most Cowbells is the final category. Here Will Ferrell gets his highest Rotten Tomatoes marks and his biggest box office hits. These films include “Elf” (2003), “Megamind” (2010) and “The LEGO Movie” (2014). Two of them are animated and all of them are PG-13 rated.

This weekend, Will Ferrell adds another film to the graph with “Get Hard” co-starring Kevin Hart. It opens this weekend nationwide.

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