Your life is too short for this bilge

Rating: Null/10 (13 September 2004)

I don't often walk out of a film, so there's a minor triumph for Anchorman. I've never seen a Will Ferrell movie before, and the great thing is that if he doesn't get a major role in Star Wars Episode 7 I can probably escape a repeat experience for most of the rest of my natural life.
This is one of those crappy, pointless comedy movies that seem to be part of a US social welfare program to get ageing Saturday Live comics' straight-to-video careers off the ground. You know the kind, where a studio grinds out a vehicle for Cameron Diaz or some minor blip on the American TV comedy scene that inevitably gets padded with cameos from the much funnier people they knew at acting school or have kids at the same creche. It's not funny and it's not clever!
Doesn't it make you angry that the people who made this get paid more in ten weeks than you'll earn in your lifetime? Don't waste your hard-earned cash on this pointless, unfunny garbage.