Supremacy Of The Stupidity !

Rating: 7/10 (24 August 2007)

(Will Ferrell) is determined to be the typical stupid, and honestly he can do it with great intelligence and genuine originality. In (The Legend of Ron Burgundy), he plays a TV announcer from the late 1970s, who is so stupid in a brilliant way, with a bit of sarcastic criticism too. Though, unfortunately, the script wasn't as brilliant.
It had no more than 3 real events only: (Veronica Corningstone) came to the station, (Burgundy) gone fired, and (Burgundy) rescued (Veronica) in the zoo. So the rest was a flood of separated sketches; some were outstanding, sharp and clever, and some weren't. Therefore, that number of separated sketches, along with the absence of the drama flow caused some kind of low satisfaction, let alone when the drama doesn't exist basically: (Veronica) forgets about (Burgundy)'s declaration of their sex life on air so easily!, (Burgundy) comes back to the station at the end so easily also!!, and what a truth when you know that the editing deleted another more and more sketches which made an enough material that created a whole new movie gone strait to video as (Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie - 2004)!
But despite of that, let me tell you what a wonderful substance they made in what seemed as another meaningless comedy. That was done through the unseen character of the station boss's disturbed son who developed from porn movies maniac, to drug addicted, to a killer; as the perfect result for all what this very station was presenting as the top of paltriness (a fashion show of cats?!), simply because the absence of seriousness in the media is a pure example of the culture's flatness, so the falsification of the consciousness raising; that's one excellent serious thing to say in a movie like this, especially when they consolidated it at the end in a short wicked satire: the non-enlightenment of the media men with their stupidity make them so qualified for helping some specific leaders (Steve Carell, the dullest of them all, became a counselor for president George W. Bush!). Moreover, the basic matter of the movie which's based on the stupidity of the male-partiality in certain age at the American media history (there was no reason or whatsoever for keeping the women away from this work!).
There are a lot of marvelous scenes: The group's romantic song, that language between the title's character and his dog, although (Steve Martin) had one with his dog in (The Jerk), back in 1979, but (Ferrell) made it like a smart conversation between two intellectual men!, the flute's jazz show, the sex scene in a fantastic cartoon musical! But on the other hand, you'll find some of the worst bad tasting: throwing the dog over the bridge, the dog defecates in the refrigerator, and couple of obscene lines.
As for the acting, (Ferrell) was hilarious but with some overacting at parts. (Applegate) did a wonderful job, so all the guest stars, BUT (Steve Carell) stole the show, proving that he is a true unique talent, enjoying us in many wonderful scenes, which made me wonder.. was it the writing of (Ferrell), or the improvisation of (Carell)?? Well.. maybe both!
I think the most beautiful thing in here is not only the talent of (Will Ferrell), as a writer and comedian, but also the movie's assertion about the fact that being a star is a matter which has no relevant with being intelligent. So it's simple as well as logical to have an announcer like (Burgundy) who made it to the top of success and fame with this horrific condition of dangerous stupidity before his deep ignorance.