Fairly Decent

Rating: 5/10 (2 August 2005)

Decent enough comedic movie about the tribulations of an air-headed news anchorman. Some of this drags, and is not funny at all, probably because this is an acquired taste.
The ending is silly, and humorless.
There are amusing bits in this, though: (Ron, working on his "guns", and massive erection sequence; the competing anchor teams "street fight"; Ron's drunken self-pity phase).
However, other scenes and aspects of this don't seem to be played out as well as they could have been. It's ironic: Fred Willard, who soberly plays the station manager in this, was probably born to play a character like this.
Will Ferrell is generally good, but the humor is odd and offbeat, and doesn't seem to hit all the marks it could have.