So close, but.....

Rating: 5/10 (23 July 2004)

Man, I really wanted to love this movie. This new breed of comedy films is so uneven though. You have your Old School, which is the best by far (so far), Eurotrip and Starsky & Hutch, both of which were much better than they should have been. And then there's the also-rans like Zoolander and Anchorman. Two films that really should have been brilliant, but end up having one or two funny scenes connected by a bunch of duds and dead space. Zoolander had the gas fight, Anchorman has the brawl. The rest of the film, at best, elicits small grins, but that's not what you go to a film like this for....You want to pee yourself laughing (think Blazing Saddles, Caddyshack, Old School). Will Ferell does a fantastic job "becoming" Ron Burgandy, Steve Carell turns in the best performance in the movie, but the script can't seem to find many funny things for these characters to do. Chalk this one up as something to rent on a rainy Saturday.