The Anchor falls hard on Anchorman...

Rating: Null/10 (9 July 2004)

With the enormous publicity that 'Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy' has received and with Will Ferrel being the next best thing to come out of Saturday Night Live, there is no way that this movie could be horrible in any shape or form.......or could it? The story line follows a dimwitted, egotistical anchorman for the San Diego news in the mists of the seventies, who begins to fall in love and feel threaten with the new anchor 'lady' that has joined the news team. It's a classic tale of two success power driven individuals who are striving for the big network anchorman position.
The plot line is farely weak and so is the performance of Will Ferrel and his crew. During the commercials the random bizarre words that comes out of Ron Burgundy's mouth seems laughable. Unfortunately that's all that happens during the rest of the movie. It seems as though the movie was a big inside joke that the audience was not apart of.
Although the highlights of the movie included the several cameo appearances and Applegates golden blond hair was very nice, it still fell short of being an all time classic in my movie collection. I'm not giving up on Will Ferrell, but it just seems that he does a better job as a co-star rather then the leading role of the movie.