Good news, bad news

Rating: 7/10 (26 September 2005)

Will Ferrell plays Ron Burgundy in "Anchorman", the anchor of local news program in San Diego. The movie open with Ron and his colleagues partying in typical 70's manner -- lots of booze, lots of women. Along comes Veronica, played by Christina Applegate, who wants to become a news anchor, but in the male dominated world of news, she has little chance, especially when she goes against the male chauvinist Ron Burgundy.
Ferrell was pretty funny, and his cohorts, especially Steve Carrell as Brick the Weatherman, were also pretty funny second bananas. Fred Willard played the befuddled boss/director, and I think he was pretty good trying to balance pleasing his star anchorman and the new woman on the scene.
My problem with this film is Christina Applegate. I think Ms. Applegate is a very beautiful and talented comedienne. And she holds her own against Mr. Ferrell's histrionics. However, it appears to me that she had some plastic surgery, and it looked like she was unable to wrinkle her forehead. It was kind of disconcerting. I began paying more attention to her forehead than her performance. When she got angry at Ron, her voice showed it but not her face. Her face looked like a plastic Barbie Doll's face.
But there were good laughs in this one, and worth the hour and a half.