Oh... My... God...!!!

Rating: 1/10 (24 December 2004)

(Disclaimer: I have no life, no living relatives and am offering this comment on 12/24/04 with little better to do)
With "Anchorman" DreamWorks has officially cemented their move from the "entertainment" to the "fertilizer" industry. All appearances suggest the transition will be smooth and a rousing success.
Anchorman offers nothing for your money that could not be bested by alternatively setting the currency on fire in exchange for heat. I recall a dump I took circa 197x that I would long to view rather than be subjected to another screening of Anchorman.
Rarely, IMO, has a more promising concept been so disastrously executed.
The script is atrocious, many performances seem hackneyed and forced and I'm sure the edit process would be found in violation of the Geneva Convention.
Fred Willard is superb as the Station Manager providing the film's few highlights that surpass those of the animal actors.
Applegate, while becoming more attractive as she matures, gives her professional all and outperforms her more seasoned cast members. Alas, she falls short of elevating this film to the "barely viewable" category.
A cameo by Susan Sarandon's husband adds nothing other than the "recognition" response. Ben Stiller's adds only to the long list of mediocre films with which he's been affiliated.
This project in the hands of Kevin Smith could have been an all-time classic. Instead, it falls far below the lame, seldom amusing Cheerleader skits Ferrell participated in on SNL.
If a more obvious "whore for dollars" movie has ever been produced I am unaware of its existence. My only consolation is I paid zero dollars to screen this POS and wasted only my time, bandwidth and some space on my HD... which will soon be vacant.
The IMDb rating system is limited to positive numbers and therefore it is impossible to rate this in terms of absolute negative... or I would.
Any episode of The Simpsons offers more humor between commercials than this film does in its entirety.
Don't miss this film... if you can't.