Outstanding

Rating: 9/10 (30 June 2013)

If you want a good laugh, this will do the trick nicely. Many, many highlights, but just the words "jazz flute" can send me into hysterics. The talking dog. The office barbershop quartet singing Afternoon Delight. Steve Carell's amazingly stupid character, Brick, who he obviously enjoyed playing. The bear scene at the zoo. The mass fight of rival news crews. You get the disturbing feeling that the world of 1970s TV that Anchorman was parodying isn't too different from reality. The clothes. The sexism. The bizarre idol worship of newsreaders, who in reality just have to read an autocue and look good. All the supporting actors play it very straight and as a result are hilarious, for example Tim Robbins' small but effective turn as the nasty public TV reporter who pushes Veronica into the bear pit. The whole movie was very well done.