Anchor's Away With The Fairies

Rating: 5/10 (20 December 2013)

By what must be pure coincidence this was screened on television in the UK the very day that Anchorman 2 opened and by further coincidence I checked out the sequel never having seen the original and completely unaware that it would be screened this evening. My overall impression of both movies is that they are reminiscent of the very early Woody Allen titles in that there are lots of dull bits punctuated by the occasional laugh-out loud moment. In Anchorman it's not so much dull bits as pathetic, embarrassing, totally non-funny bits in which four grown men behave like gauche teenagers constantly shouting at the tops of their voices for no apparent reason. Clearly I didn't miss much back in 2004.