The Campaign

Two rival politicians compete to win an election to represent their small North Carolina congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.

Critics landed in mixed-to-middling territory on this election-year comedy, broadly agreeing that Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis make a likable pair but that the political satire never gets as sharp or pointed as the premise demands. The laughs are there, but most reviewers felt the film coasts on its leads rather than doing anything genuinely incisive with its targets.