Funny, but not as much as Old School

Rating: 7/10 (11 July 2004)

Anchorman, the comedy about female reporter Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate) coming to a San Diego news program, and stealing the main anchor spot from the pompus 5 time local emmy winner anchor Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell), starts of with plenty of laughs, but towards the end, it gets to a point with the style of comedy is gets redundant, especially Steve Carell's character, who while giving some good laughs, just gets tedious. Will Ferrell does a great job as Ron Burgundy, along with his collleagues, played by (discluding Carell), David Koechner, and Paul Rudd. And cameos by Jack Black, Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson, and Vince Vaughn (who actually has a pretty important role) keep the film from getting boring. For what it's worth, I got some good laughs, but I doubt I'll see this movie more than twice. I might have enjoyed this more, if I hadn't rented Old School the night before I saw this. Still, this isn't that bad of a way to spend your money.
7/10