Ron Burgundy is the man.

Rating: 10/10 (24 February 2005)

I'm leaving some things out of this review, because I don't want to spoil the movie for you... There have been some good comedies this decade ranging from American Wedding, Old School, Undercover Brother, Austin Powers 3, Barbershop, School of Rock, Zoolander, Starchy and Hutch, Dodgeball, both Sherk movies and Bruce Almighty. However, none of these comedies have been as funny and as original as "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy". Simply put "Anchorman" is the funniest movie of this decade so far.
"Anchorman" is a 90-minute running joke, you could probably laugh throughout the entire movie. Anchorman is about a '70s news anchor named Ron Burgundy (played by Will Ferrell, who also co-wrote the movie) and his news team must adapt to new times as the station they work for bring on a new FEMALE co-anchor named Veronica Cornningstone (played by Christina Applegate, she was Kelly in Married with Children). Back in 1970's, only men where allowed to read the news. "It's anchorman, not anchor-lady" was the motto that Burgardy and his news team followed by. Well, the plot kind of stinks, but who cares it's a dumb comedy, nobody cares about the plot when it's entertaining (sort of like porn).
Onto the Channel 4 news team, who is the #1 news station in San Diego (and hated by every other news station, most of all by Channel 9 led by Wes Mantooth (played by Vince Vaughn)). The Ch. 4 news team is made up of 5-time Emmy winner anchor Burgundy, Champ Kind and his famous catch-phrase "WHAMMY!!!" on sports, Brick Tamland, who is so dumb that he loves lamp, covers weather and Brian "Da Bri" Fantana, who owns every type of cologne possible (even ones that are banned in other countries), as lead field reporter. All four of these guys are stupid, horny, argonaut, drunk and sharply dress. Champ (played by Dave Koechner) is a bit over-the-top, however though that's probably because his blood-alcohol level becomes illegal ten minutes right after he wakes up. "Da Bri" (played by Paul Rudd) thinks he's a cross between John Homles and Ron Jeremy when it comes to sex. He is so cocky he has a name for his penis and both of his nuts. Brick (played by Steve Carell, Bruce's enemy in Bruce Almighty and he was also on the Daily Show) has an IQ of 48 and likes to eat toasted mayo. Out of these three characters, Brick is by-far the funniest because he is just so dumb.
Now, some of you might be wondering "I hope Applegate doesn't ruin this movie!" and "does she get naked?". No and no. Applegate does come up with some good one-liners to insult Ron and the gang and this is a PG-13 movie, so there isn't any nudity.
Also in "Anchorman" there were a lot of cameos as well. And if there are a lot of cameos that must mean it's a good movie. I already said that Vince Vaughn was in there and he had a funny part, in fact all cameos were funny, which included Tim Robbins, Luke Wilson and Ben Stiller. However, the best cameo was by Jack Black. I won't give away too much, however the scene that he is in, shows him p*ssed off and Ron scared with his dog.
Ron Burgundy is by-far Will Ferrell's best role and right now he is probably the #1 comedy actor in Hollywood (even though Ben Stiller put up a good fight in Dodgeball). You can put Ron Burgundy on the list "comedy characters that put an actor to the top" along with Rodney Dangerfield's and Bill Murray's characters in Caddyshack, Eddie Murphy's role in 48 hours and Jim Carrey in "the Mask".
I bet some of you have seen the trailer, well about 90% of the trailer is not in the movie (and there were some funny parts in the trailer as well). This was very unusual, especially for a comedy, because usually, all the funniest parts are in the trailer. However, there is a rumor going around that there will be an UN-CUT edition of this movie, which has a chance to beat out "Caddyshack" for funniest movie of all-time.
Grade: 9.5 out of 10 (the only reason there it doesn't get the 10 was because they did make fun of Pres. Bush in the movie, liberal bastards).
GO SEE ANCHORMAN!!!