way too Anchored, man

Rating: Null/10 (11 July 2004)

Will Farrell, in his funniest movie since "Old School", stars as ego-driven, chauvenistic, Ron Burgundy i this movie that sets itself in the 70's, when news shows were more or less a mens' business. The problem with the movie is the Ron gets emascalated far too quickly and the PG-13 rating hampers the comedy that much more. Not to be misunderstood, I did enjoy the film Steven Carrell as kind of a grown-up Ralph Wiggum, and the Jack Black cameo was one of the funniest things I've seen at the cinema in a while. It's just that so much more could've been done with the scenerio and it wasn't. Ron is seen as too incompetent, and Christina Appelgate's Veronica too good at everything she does. The Bush joke was also groan-worthy, it would've been good if EVERY comedy since 2001 didn't have at least one Bush joke.
My Grade: C+