Uh, what.....

Rating: Null/10 (4 December 2004)

Saw this movie months ago and I have to say I'm surprised that there are so many supporters of it. I looked forward to this movie for weeks and waited for a while to see it with my friends, hoping it would be hilarious. How utterly wrong I was...
First let me say that I'm usually really pretty tolerant of movies. I usually look at the good side and don't analyze too much. Almost all movies I see, I like. However, Anchorman was the first time I've ever seriously considered walking out of the theater (which my other friend did)...but I thought I'd try to get the most out of my foolishly-spent nine dollars (ticket alone)...um, I didn't.
I'm a fan of stupid comedies (Wayne's World, Airplane), but Anchorman was just...too stupid. I wouldn't be surprised if the script was written one day and then shot the next. There seemed to be no effort put into it, like it was made by a group of middle-schoolers with a video camera. I'm also a big fan of Will Ferrel, but this was overwhelming. Yeah, him screaming his lines is funny, but for 90 minutes was almost unbearable. Out of all 90, I only cared for about 15. I don't remember too much, except that the stupidness was pretty much forced down your throat. Suffocating, almost.
Perhaps I'll rent it some day or sit through it on TV, just in case I was being too serious that day, but I wouldn't bet on it. NOT a great film, NOT a great comedy, NOT a comedy classic, and definitely NOT the best film of the year. If you want a funny stupid comedy (from 2004, no less), go see Team America or Napoleon Dynamite.