It's older, fatter but as sublimely silly as ever, with ba-da-bing! timing and a finale of celebrity cameo craziness.

In their big, expensive, hyper-marketed Christmas studio movie, they're doing the same kind of Fox-mocking that Jon Stewart does every night.

Ferrell and McKay were so determined to tell new Burgundy jokes that they didn't appear to care what they were about or whether they were any good.

With those two fuzzy caterpillars resting over the black eyes of a raven, Ferrell has become a parody of even himself.