The Repetition of Will Ferrell
Sticking with the deja vu theme I apparently have going here, has any actor ever repeated themselves as much as Will Ferrell? He started with the arrogant, out-of-touch star in his own mind in Anchorman, then added sports and changed the accent in Taladega Nights, then changed the sport in Blades of Glory, and now is going back to the 70's and going with basketball with Semi-Pro. He basically played the same character in Bewitched (replacing sports with a self-referential Hollywood send-up) and now he's basically re-making that film but about a different TV show. The premise for his latest, a "Land of the Lost" remake, reads: "Ferrell stars as an arrogant, womanizing movie star cast in a remake of the Sid and Marty Krofft series, only to discover that real Sleestaks (Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller) exist among us." After that, Will will finally revisit the overgrown child of Elf, this time replacing being displaced by Santa with being displaced when your mom marries someone with another childish adult (played by John C. Reilly) in Step-Brothers.
Part of me feels like Will doesn't work off scripts as much as he has a couple of Mad Libs which he uses as a diving board for his improv.
Then again, I can't exactly complain because I've seen most of Ferrell's movies in the theater and will likely be at Semi-Pro next weekend.
