Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

Rating: 7/10 (24 February 2007)

I wouldn't say that "Anchorman" is a very good film, it's more like a collection of funny and partly hilarious scenes, and in between those are also plenty of scenes, that didn't work for me. An advice for future comedy-makers: Just get Will Ferrell and Steve Carell and your film can't be a total flop. While Ferrell is great in everything he does, Carell literally steals every scene he is in here. Even when someone else was talking, I always looked at Brick. Just check the scene where he tries to "flirt" with Veronica (Party! Pants!). One of the highlights was also the massive fight between all the different TV news teams (with a considerable number of guest stars). The problem is: Funny scene after funny scene after funny scene gets a little bit tiring after a while if there is no plot that keeps the whole thing together. And in this case, that plot is very thin. But this does almost no harm, because it's really damn funny.