stupidly brilliant...

Rating: Null/10 (10 July 2004)

I first saw the reel of clips released back in 03, and after watching about 10 times over i finally stopped laughing. I knew this movie was going to be funny, but damn did it exceed my expectations. *And yes, I'm one for stupid humor* This wasn't witty humor, and wasn't typical stupid humor even, but rather just so completely random that you just had to laugh. The audience was laughing so hard at times in fact everyone missed a lot of the jokes....but i digress.
The "plot" of this film, was a new co-anchor woman comes into the news room of the hit San Diego news team in the 70's and shows woman can report too damnitt. Appelgate was convincing, and actually got me to laugh a few times as well.
Ferrel was of course perfect, and you could tell the majority of the film was from Mckay just letting the cameras roll, (I heard the entire film ran almost 4 hrs uncut, for the special DVD..but who knows)
The movie however was simply stolen by Steve Carrel, who I never found this funny. He plays a man who self confesses within the first 5 min of the film, "I'm basically mentally retarded." Every one of his lines was just so random and ridiculous that you were forced to laugh, plain and simple. His dead pan delivery just shows if he's given a role, he'll play it to the fullest.
The only down beat (still funny however) was the cameo induced fight sequence, reminiscent of West Side Story. It was the typicals... CAMEO SPOILER...
Luke Wilson, Stiller, Vaughn...but then a few others i didn't expect ie. Danny Trejo and Tim freakin Robbins...amazing.
So if you even remotely like any of the actors above its worth the ridiculous 8 bucks...just make sure you can appreciate humor SO damn far from the norm its just simply random.