Even Stupid Ought To Have It's Genius

Rating: 3/10 (20 August 2008)

There are many "stupid", or the way I call them "absurd", masterpieces.
Marx Brothers had their own formula 70 - 80 years ago and repeated it perfectly in their handful of movies. A bunch of young British geniuses had their shot and they were outstanding. From "Meaning of Life" to "Holly Grail", Monthy Python brought us some of the finest examples of "absurd" comedy. Later the famous Z.A.Z. team produced likes of "Top Secret" and "Airplane". Not everything they did was as successful as these, but they set a fine standard.
To call "Anchorman" a great stupid movie is quite an insult to those guys, and many others I couldn't name here.
Will Ferrell is not my favorite actor, but after seeing him in a Woody Allen project (Melinda, Melinda) and watching extraordinary "Stranger Than Fiction", I was convinced he had more talent than he showed on "A Night at the Roxberry". So I decided to give a shot to "Anchorman", which also contains pretty Christina Applegate.
But the result was disappointment. Every character is a cartoon like most absurd comedies, but the jokes are not raining like they supposed to be. This brings out the flaws of cartoons on the screen. In the good examples of the genre, like those I mentioned above, you probably miss some jokes, while you are laughing on others. In this you won't risk of missing anything because they are well apart from each other.
If you think lines like "Sixty percent of the time, it works every time." are funny, this movie may do the trick for you. You'll laugh anyway, I admit I laughed, but not enough to make this experience worthy.
"Anchorman" has one of the most overrated notes in IMDb, I'm afraid.