Absolutely Hilarious... The Best Comedy Of The Year!

Rating: Null/10 (14 September 2004)

"Anchorman" is smart, articulate, obscene, vulgar, unashamed, and flat out hilarious! This is a film that succeeds in its own unique, bizarre manner, a film so ostensibly inane and mindless that it perhaps didn't require much of a script for its execution. With a premise so universal and amusing: a look inside the life of obnoxious news anchors, the film's deliverance of comedy is equally brilliant. One relentless riot after another, from ridiculing the now accepted concept of women in newscasting in such a profane, irreverent manner, to "the bloody showdown" of the rival local newsteams, to some hilarious innuendo on the news teleprompter, and on and on and on. This is an insane, outrageous comedy, and nothing more, so all that is required to enjoy the laughs is some humor (and maybe some depreciation towards newsteams). It covers all the bases you might expect in a comedy, from clever, implicit jokes about culture and gender, to insane, outrageous occurrences you would never see coming, to delicious dialogue ("When in Rome..."); this film succeeds on nearly every level as simply one of the funniest films ever. Outrageous, mindless fun that promises to amuse those who believe there are no bounds in the eloquence of comedy. **** out of ****