Intelligent, Zany, Slightly Nuts Comedy Romp Without Cheap Shots

Rating: 7/10 (14 April 2013)

Humor is so subjective, and what is mildly amusing is a laugh riot to another; so it is with this scattered mess, a slap-shot collection of often hilarious sight gags. I laughed often and frequently at the silliness, was aware that we're not dealing with literary wit, but material seemingly dreamed up while the guys sat around a table and played "Can you top this?"
Every viewer will have favorites: San Francisco Chron Critic LaSalle, for instance, seemed to miss what I thought was a manically nuts performance from Paul Rudd as a second-fiddle newsman: as with all the humor in this zany romp, to each his own. All of the main characters are obviously enjoying the charade--even the dog Baxter, who often speaks with subtitles and mercifully never urinates on a fire hydrant; on the same topic, this is an intelligent comedy, not needing to be riddled with flatulent jokes and the other cheap instant gags that usually flood this kind of outrÃ© humor--there is an inspired nuttiness, the kind you find in Airplane, and I enjoyed it. The humor is EXTREMELY broad, but once in a while in this daft world, a person just needs a good laugh. Ron Burgundy delivers!