Did I miss a meeting...?

Rating: 1/10 (3 July 2007)

I didn't see this film when everyone else was talking about it, simply because I don't like Will Farrell. I just don't find him funny. Well, I'm sitting in a restaurant with friends and for most of the evening I am the butt of all jokes for not having seen this film. With incredulity, they laugh as I say, once again, that I don't find Will Farrell funny. "Oh no, this is different - this is soooooo funny. It's probably the best comedy ever." One 'friend' even offers to buy it for me, so convinced is he of its comedic powers.
Skip forward one week. I am holding a copy of 'Anchorman', opening the DVD player and actually beginning to believe that I might - MIGHT - enjoy it after all. Hey, it's got so many names in it, surely there must have been something to draw all these modern comedy stars in. Right? I am pleased to announce that I am much smarter than all my friends. Will Farrell isn't funny and the film sucked more than a specialist in the world's oldest profession. The one star rating, like so many other people here, is for Steve Carell - the only smirk raised during this drawn-out, torturous experience.
Apart from him, this is a lame, predictable, juvenile, half-baked, under-rehearsed, over-acted,pathetic excuse for a film and to suggest that this was meant to be funny is an insult to those who actually make some kind of effort, not just rest on their laurels while laughing at how easy the movie going public are to make part with their money. And the fact that so many people did really makes me hang my head and despair for the future of mankind.
I hate this film. You should too.