Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues

Plot synopsis:
In the opening shot, a voice-over narrator (Bill Kurtis) tries to continue the legend of Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) by reintroducing Ron as he is frantically swimming away from a shark. Instead, however, the narrator decides to cut to New York City in what is now 1980, where Ron and his wife Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate) are walking together down the street. A guy on the street hollers at Veronica to tell her she's got a nice ass. Veronica asks Ron if he's going to say something about it, but Ron acknowledges that Veronica's ass attracts other men.The two are doing the news at the World Broadcast news station. After their broadcast is over, they are called up to meet with their boss Mack Tannen (Harrison Ford). Mack promotes Veronica to full time anchorwoman, and he fires Ron, calling him the worst anchorman he's ever seen. Ron questions what it is that he's done wrong, and we see a number of things in a montage: yelling the news because the teleprompter text was in all caps, cursing on live television and sneezing on the camera lens, among other things. This pisses Ron off all the way back home, where his and Veronica's son Walter (Judah Nelson) can hear his parents arguing. Ron snaps at the boy, telling him he will never achieve his dream of being an astronaut or cowboy and instead ought to aim for working in fast food or in porn. Ron also gives Veronica an ultimatum - either she chooses him, or her job.Six months later, a disgraced and divorced Ron is working as an announcer at Sea World in San Diego. He's holding a glass of scotch, totally drunk, and he starts weeping in front of the crowd at how low he's sunk. He then makes crude comments toward the female commentators, and then starts mocking the dolphins as they do their show. The crowd boos him and he is later fired. He gets dumped in his dressing room by security where his trusty and beloved dog Baxter is sitting. Ron decides to hang himself from the fluorescent light, but his weight causes the light to break. Seconds later, a man named Freddie Shapp (Dylan Baker) enters. He pulls Ron back up and later takes him to a diner to discuss with him a job offer in the city. The Global News Network station is set to have a 24-hour news program, which Ron thinks is a stupid idea. Freddie then shows him an envelope with what would be his weekly salary, causing Ron to exclaim, "By the hymen of Olivia Newton-John!" Ron accepts the offer and tells Freddie he's got the perfect news team for the job.Ron first goes to pick up former co-worker and sportscaster Champion "Champ" Kind (David Koechner), who was fired from his news team for being a racist misogynist. He now owns a fried chicken joint called "Whammy! Chicken", though Ron points out that the chicken is really bat meat. Ron tells Champ about the new job offer, and Champ is on board.Next, Ron and Champ pick up their old field reporter Brian Fantana (Paul Rudd), who has done well for himself photographing kittens. He likes the idea of live nude strip clubs in New York City, and he joins the two.Ron, Champ, and Brian head off to find weatherman Brick Tamland (Steve Carell). Brian informs Ron and Champ that Brick died. They go to his funeral, where their old boss Ed Harken (Fred Willard) and old colleague Garth Holliday (Chris Parnell) are present. Next up to say a few words is... Brick, who is very much alive. He starts yelling and crying to the heavens until his three friends have to remind him that he is alive.On the road to the Big Apple, the gang starts reminiscing about funny stories from their past. Brick tells stories about a dream he had, which none of the others get. Brian then points out that nobody is driving the RV, but Ron thinks that because it is set on cruise control, the RV will drive itself. The RV then steers itself off the road, causing the gang to fly around, while Ron's very misplaced items (a deep fry oil cooker, a terrarium of scorpions, and a bag of bowling balls) fly all over the place and injure them all.The gang makes it to New York and to the GNN station. Freddie shows them around where they find all the regular newscasters, including their top prime time star, Jack Lime (James Marsden). The guys are mesmerized by his good looks, though he makes mean comments to Ron about him staring at him. Jack plays it off as a joke, but he obviously doesn't like Ron. Freddie then takes the guys to meet their new boss Linda Jackson (Meagan Good). The guys are surprised to see that she's an African-American woman who is in charge, but she makes it clear that she will not take any crap from them. She sends them out, annoyed with their childishness and sexism. Freddie tells the guys that they have an apartment booked on the upper east side and that they're in charge of the graveyard shift (2-5am), which they're none too pleased with. As they're leaving, Brick spots a woman, Chani Lastnamé (Kristen Wiig), staring at the phone as it rings. Her boss (June Diane Raphael) is annoyed with Chani's incompetence and answers the phone herself. Chani proves to be just as dimwitted and awkward as Brick, which creates a mutual attraction between the two.Ron goes to visit Veronica to patch things up with her, only to discover that she is now seeing a psychologist named Gary (Greg Kinnear). Ron is annoyed with Gary, and he throws a punch at him, but Gary dodges it, leading Ron to assume that Gary has mind powers. Ron holds a gift meant for Veronica, but, due to his newfound jealousy, he gives it to Walter. It's lingerie for Veronica, but he makes Walter think it's a superhero cape. Ron leaves after making insulting comments to both Veronica and Gary.The gang meets GNN owner Kench Appleby (Josh Lawson), who has a thick Australian accent that makes it hard for them to understand. Jack then proceeds to coolly do the news. Later, Ron makes a comment that Jack isn't so great, which Brick says out loud, angering Jack. He and Ron form a challenge - if Ron and his team fail to beat Jack's ratings, they will leave the city, but if they succeed, Jack has to legally change his name to Jack Lame. He accepts the challenge.The guys have a hard time finding things to report on during their time slot. Ron says that they ought to report on things that people want to hear as opposed to what they need to hear. Freddie likes the idea, and the gang agrees to go through with it. On their way out, Brick runs into Chani again. They have another awkward exchange interrupted when Chani's boss comes in with phone messages from a week ago that Chani decided to mail to her. This turns into a screaming match when Brick yells at the woman to leave Chani alone because they thinks she's going to set Chani on fire. Chani is actually canned, but she doesn't care as she agrees to go on a date with Brick.On their first night broadcasting the news, which the narrator describes as becoming history in the making, Ron kicks it off by addressing how great America is. This gets people's attention from all around the city. Champ does a piece on a number of home-runs while repeating his catchphrase, "WHAMMY!" Brick reports on how windy it is outside, and Brian does a piece on the best vaginas in the world. Linda sees this one and immediately rushes off to the station, fuming at the gang's broadcast. Ron threatens to hit her if she were a man, and she challenges him to go ahead and do it. He then hesitates to do so, and then gets kneed in the nuts by her, sending him to the floor squealing like a child, and he and the guys are fired.Kench meets with Linda and Freddie to tell them that Ron's team pulled in higher ratings than Jack has. Linda regrettably tells Kench that she fired them. Freddie goes to the guys' apartment and tells them that they are rehired. During their run, they become celebrities, endorsing several products (Brick does a butter commercial at one point) and bringing in great ratings. Jack even goes through with the name change, which he is ashamed to say on live TV.Linda, turned on by Ron's new celebrity status, tries to make a pass at him, telling him to make weird animal noises. He is unsure of how to go about this and he thinks he's been raped, though he is not too bothered by it. Brick tells the guys he's going on a date with Chani, even though he has no idea what a date entails. Brian offers some help by pulling some condoms out of his "jimmy closet". Brick later goes out with Chani to a laundromat. They stand in front of a soda machine and drink can after can of soda. Chani asks Brick if he's ever kissed anybody, to which he says only people on TV and his Planet of the Apes toys. The two share their first kiss, which gets weird, though nobody seems mind it.Meanwhile, Ron and Linda have dinner together, where Ron loudly tells everybody that he's going to have sex with a black woman for the first time. They go back to his place and finally do it, and this scene is intercut with random footage of Jackie Robinson, the Kirk/Uhura kiss from "Star Trek", and a clip of "Diff'rent Strokes".Kench finds out that Ron and Brian want to do a story called "Death From Above", which is a report on the failing Koala Airlines business. He tells Linda about it and wants her to see to it that she can get Ron to pull the story, suggesting they try out some synergy.Linda takes Ron to dinner with her family. He makes a terrible impression by explicitly discussing his and Linda's sex life, along with using stereotypical jive talk. To top it off, he calls them all "pipe-hitting bitches", leading Linda's father to kick him in the head. On their cab ride home, Linda informs Ron that they're going to pull the "Death From Above" story, and suggests synergy to Ron.What follows is Ron trying to spend time with Walter. He curses in front of him and tells him that the only thing he should be afraid of is voodoo, and that he should never go to Haiti. Veronica hears of this and is pissed at Ron since Walter can't sleep after that. She also reminds Ron that Walter has a science fair the next day, and she wants him to attend.Ron gets tense over what's been going on, especially as Jack reports that Veronica is set to interview a foreign dignitary over talks of world peace. He also tells Brian that they want to pull the "Death From Above" story. Ron starts taking out his frustrations on them, eventually yelling at Brick. This sends the others over the edge, and Brian punches Ron in the face. He, Champ, and Brick then leave Ron alone.When Ron has nothing to report, he gets word of a car chase going on. Despite this not being actual news, he goes on air to do this story, just as Veronica is set to do her big interview. The narrator says car chases would become a big deal in the 80's. The ratings for GNN start climbing as Ron does his story, playing on the excitement of the chase as it develops. This also disrupts Veronica's interview as WBC shows more interest in the car chase. By the time the chase ends, Ron has delivered a new ratings high for the station, leading to a big celebration. Unfortunately, he misses Walter's science fair, leaving the boy disappointed.A celebration is held for Ron as he plays the flute while skating to a crowd. His old friends refuse to continue watching him bask in his glory, and they leave. When nobody is looking, Jack tosses a cable onto the skating rink, causing Ron to trip and fall hard on the ice. The narrator likens this to the story of Icarus flying too close to the sun. As a result, Ron becomes blind.Once again without a job and without any purpose, Ron relocates to a lighthouse. Champ, Brian, and Brick come to visit him to try and help him out. He only talks about how his blindness has left him unable to perform any tasks that really don't require vision (he claims to have drank half a bottle of ketchup thinking it was liquor, and he tried masturbating his shin). The guys leave when they realize Ron is hopeless. Not long after, Veronica arrives to get Ron back on his feet. He continues to be unable to perform most simple tasks and only ends up getting frustrated. One day, while on the beach, Walter spots a baby shark trapped in a net. He and Ron set it free, and Walter names it Doby. This gives Ron a new lease on life, allowing him to enjoy time with Veronica and Walter. He helps raise Doby like a pet, even feeding him from a bottle. She also claims to have left Gary because he is too emotionally stable, and it's annoying to her. When Doby becomes a full grown shark, the family releases him into the ocean. Ron even sings a little song for him.Their joy is cut short when Ron discovers a message from the doctor saying that he left multiple messages to try and tell him that they can give him his sight back. Veronica had been deleting the messages so that Ron could continue spending time with her and Walter. She apologizes for being selfish, but Ron angrily leaves. He tries driving but then crashes the car. He undergoes the procedure and regains his sight, allowing him to return to GNN.While Ron is set to do his first big news report since his absence, Veronica goes to visit him and tell him that Walter is going to have a piano recital, and that he wrote a piece for his dad. She also meets Linda, and the two exchange calm yet fiery words to each other, which turns Ron on. Freddie comes in to tell Ron that a TV actress found out about her husband cheating, severed his penis in his sleep, and is involved in a car chase. Veronica understands that Ron would rather do a big news story, so she leaves him to it.Ron prepares to do the news, but he has a change of heart just as he begins. He addresses the audience by saying he's gained a new perspective after his recent experiences, as well as acknowledging how much he needs his friends. Kench is angry at him for not doing the story, and Ron leaves, but not before telling everybody that Koala Airlines "is a shitty airline". He apologizes to his friends, with Brick giving a well-spoken lecture to Ron on how his hubris got the better of him. He then adds that he's wearing two pairs of pants. The guys cover for Ron as he runs to Walter's recital.Unable to hail a cab, Ron runs off to the recital. He is ambushed in the park by Jack and his team. They're brandishing axes, ready to get Ron back for humiliating Jack. Just then, Brian, Champ, and Brick arrive to back Ron up with their own weapons (Brick has his trident again). Suddenly, a whole bunch of other news teams arrive, ready to engage in yet another epic news team brawl. There's the BBC news network (led by Sacha Baron Cohen), the MTV news network (led by Kanye West), the entertainment news network (with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler), the apologetic Canadian news team (with Jim Carrey and Marion Cotillard), the history news channel (led by Liam Neeson) and the ghost of Stonewall Jackson (John C. Reilly), and one other news station (led by Will Smith). To top it all off, Mack Tannen reappears to take the form of a were-hyena. The faux Greek goddess Altrusia (Kirsten Dunst) allows for the brawl to start. Heads get bashed, the Canadians hit people with hockey pucks, and Stonewall Jackson steals someone's soul. Brick kills the MTV news team with a futuristic weapon. Baron Cohen hurls his axe at Ron, but it is stopped by Gary, who turns out to really have mind powers, telepathically stopping the axe from hitting Ron, allowing him to run to Walter's recital. Will Smith then calls in a jet to shoot at everybody else.Ron and his friends continue to run but are once again cornered by Jack and his team. Out of nowhere, a group of bikers ride in, led by Ron's rival from the first film, Wes Mantooth (Vince Vaughn). His team empties their gas tanks around Jack's team's feet, and he threatens to drop his cigarette to kill them all. Although Jack points out that this would kill Wes as well, he says that everything he's done in his life would be enough for him to burn in Hell, so he has no fear of burning on Earth. Jack calls off the fight, leading Brick to celebrate with a sparkler. He drops it on the gas, killing Jack, Wes, and both their respective teams. Ron and his guys rush to Walter's recital just as he finishes (they get a little burnt), but quick enough to make Walter think they were there the whole time. Ron runs onstage and holds his boy up proudly.The narrator announces that Ron's leave from GNN brought in their highest ratings. Ron and Veronica also reconciled, and they attend Brick and Chani's wedding on the beach. Walter then spots Doby swimming in the ocean. Ron runs out to sea to embrace the shark, thinking he fondly remembers him. Actually, Doby tries to attack Ron. Ron swims away in a panic, and he is saved by none other than Baxter. The brave little dog bites Doby in the side and banishes him. Ron hugs Baxter, even though the dog barks that he wonders why he still maintains their friendship. Everybody else cheers for the two.After the credits is an outtake of the gang going to plan their first broadcast. Brick crawls under the table to eat a cookie from the floor. He looks at the camera and waves at the audience.

Tags: paranormal, absurd, entertaining, flashback

Review:
Of all the things I expected to feel when I walked out of the cinema after seeing this film, disgusted that I paid money to watch it was not one of them.
The words escape me when it comes to reviewing this movie...before I start, you should know, i'm a massive comedy fan, and enjoyed the first anchorman quite a lot, and also that this is my first review because the disappointment and anger this movie caused made me have to write a review...this movie was the biggest waste of my time and money, and had I not been with company,I would've left half way through.
The 'plot' was just...insane, I literally couldn't believe what I was watching, the movie was mainly just shouting and stupid noises, the same joke drawn out 100 times, no plot, no substance, no nothing.
When I checked IMDb, I was honestly expecting to see somewhere between 3-4, I nearly fell out my seat when I saw 7.2, this movie probably would've made more sense if you cut up the scenes into a complete random order.
Personally loved the film and cant understand why anybody didn't enjoy the original wouldn't like it too (unless you seem to think a movie called Anchorman 2, yes thats 2, needed to be something completely new and off the wall).
An offer from a start-up 24-hour news channel prompts him to get back in the news business, and he sets out to reassemble his old team: reporter Brian Fantana (Paul Rudd), sports anchor Champ Kind (David Koechner) and weatherman Brick Tamland (Steve Carell).Ferrell and his co-writer (and frequent collaborator) Adam McKay -- who also directs the movie -- don't just recycle old jokes from the first film.
(Hint: it doesn't go smoothly.) There's also a great subplot this time around for Carell, as his dimwitted character finds love with an equally brainless co-worker (Kristen Wiig).Ferrell and McKay also find much to parody when it comes to Ron's new medium.
They probably think that they are so funny that whatever comes out of the mouths just HAS to be funny.Kristen Wiig was totally unfunny...she did what seemed to be a SNL character, that, unfortunately, had not yet been fully developed.Steve Carell gibberish was worse that ever...I guess he felt that it would be hilarious if he really went over the top.Overall, it felt like this movie was thrown together without a real working script.
By way of example, the mahoosive news reader fight scene from Anchorman is repeated here; the first time around it was funny and surprising, this time it's lazy and stuffed full of tedious cameos by Will Ferrell's showbiz mates.
So much wrong with this film: sidelining Veronica Corningstone; not enough Baxter; a subplot in which Brick gets a girlfriend, no laughs there, it's just odd and creepy; pointless roles for Harrison Ford and Greg Kinnear; a recurring thread of racial humour that is cringeworthy at best and at worst offensive.
The idea sounds ludicrous to Ron, but perfectly normal and sane to us.Aside from the jokes and scenarios you can imagine after seeing the first film, the sequel offers a biting satire of today's version of the "news".
Poor Christina Applegate doesn't have much to do this time around except react to what Will Ferrell's character does to her, and the attempt to give Meagan Good's producer a meaty role falls a bit short.For its' minor drawbacks, "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues" is still the year's funniest film.
fondly, either walk into this movie with VERY LOW expectations or watch a bunch of Ron Burgundy Dodge Durango commercials and wait for this movie to come out on DVD so you can skip everything except for the last ten minutes.
I'm going to start out by saying this: I like Will Ferrell, I like most of his movies and I like the original Anchorman.At times, I was just straight up embarrassed for many of the actors in this film.
What to expect more from a comedy than sincere laughter from the beginning to the end??Yet, Ferrell and his crew (and what a crew!!!) deliver above and beyond pure fun, a strong reflexion on today's news channels mediocrity.Haters, when they try to massively smash down a movie of that kind (I couldn't figure out why), just look ridiculous and lose all credibility.If you liked the first Anchorman, are a Ferrell fan, or if you just wanna relax and have a great time, go for it!Hope you'll enjoy it as much as I just did!!.
The script was awful and the humor seemed to be reaching and contrived.I cant really put it into words other than it was disappointing and really its just not a good movie and maybe the worst I have ever seen.The best scenes were the trailers.
The highly anticipated sequel to the cult phenomenon, Anchorman, is finally here after a nine year hiatus and see's Will Ferrell reprise his most memorable role as eccentric newscaster, Ron Burgundy.
And yes, with salon quality hair!The film is everything you'd expect from the comedy pairing of Adam McKay and Will Ferrell, and although not as good as the first film, it certainly has its moments with a fresh new storyline and an abundance of hilarious jokes.
The film is just as silly as you'd hope, with Steve Carell saying 'There's little rhyme or reason to this world and that's what makes it so funny.'.
With perms, a werewolf, ice skating jazz flute, a pet shark and Harrison Ford the film truly is, in the words of Carell and Paul Rudd, 'absurd', 'ridiculous' and 'inexplicable', that won't leave fans disappointed as one of the best comedies of the year.We pick up the story years on from the first film where, after hitting rock bottom and with the seventies over, the legendary news team reunite to take on New York City and the worlds first twenty four hour news network.Despite the film dragging in parts, the thing that really makes this movie is of course, what can only be described as, a truly flawless cast and the extraordinary characters they portray.
This storyline isn't without humor featuring a date at a vending machine, but that's definitely not for everyone!Harrison Ford's appearance in the film takes the concept of a deadpan performance to a whole new level of supremacy, which is sure to make you laugh, and adds to the weight of the already marvelous cast.
Christina Applegate, who plays ambitious news anchor Veronica Corningstone, recalls the first cut being 'over three hours long' and the films director, Adam McKay, has expressed his intention of releasing a second cut of Anchorman 2, featuring 'the same plot and storyline but with entirely different jokes.'.When asked if another Anchorman film was in the pipeline Ferrell concluded that following The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter there'd be 'at least fourteen' Anchorman films!
OK I know it is supposed to be slapstick comedy and with all the press Ron Burgundy was getting with him showing up on Live news sets, etc I started to question, just how good this movie is going to be.
What is really sad was that not only is it just a dull watch, but the fact that the writers sort of listened to the audience after the first movie and gave Brick way more screen time in this movie, which just makes you stop caring what silliness will come out of his mouth.
I was a big fan of Carrell's character but I really couldn't tell you what funny line or action he did in this movie that had me laughing as much as the first movie.The movie simply made no sense at all.
I don't know what the writers were thinking but movie audiences expect more than this senseless crap.Either Will Ferrell was desperately seeking a big blockbuster but got lazy on it and came up with this crap, or he is a genius who has proved that as long as you put a few big names on a movie that made no sense whatsoever, you can still earn millions of dollars..
Christina Applegate , Paul Rudd, and David Koechner provided good performances and some fleeting humor in their roles, but Will Farrell was just simply stupid and irritating, like fingernails scratching on the blackboard, and it would have been better to caste Mr. Beans as Brick Tamland rather than Steve Carell.
Of-course, you need to leave your logics behind to watch those scenes but they were all scripted funny unlike those spoof movies whether laughter is forced by weirdest actions and not script.
Also I should point out that I thought the first one was great that being said the seams to me that this movie dose what a lot of bad sequels do it takes the things that were funny in the first, and just crammed the sequel full of the with no though for story or plot.
Rarely is a sequel to a popular comedy ever as good as the first one but you expect to get a least a few laughs not the case with Anchorman 2.
I'm a huge Will Ferrell and especially Steve Carell fan and feel this movie was an embarrassment to their career.
The movie just had a great feel and flow - not much plot (so little as to almost be sarcastic), writing so clever and unpredictable that I simply cannot comprehend the genius it took to come up with it, and lines delivered mostly completely deadpan without actors trying to ham it up.This movie showed right from the opening credits that it was not going to be that.
I hope Adam McKay makes plenty, because he deserves it for the great movies he's written over the years, but this is not one of them.Nothing can ever ruin the first Anchorman for me but this came damn close.
They didn't find it amusing either.If you liked first Anchorman because Ron was funny, a ladies man with a hilarious puns and comments, don't watch this.
Unless you were around for the politically ugly 70's and even more ugly 80's & the malignant TV News transition from actual news to "entertainment" for ADD retards you just won't "get" Anchorman 2, the first one had some good scenes as does this POS.If you have half a brain get just watch "Network" a much funnier, less pretentious, more "on-target" movie, the absolute decline in Network News is not just a recent thing, it started when the Oil Companies and US Conglomerates started taking over the TV Networks & the whole entertainment business to use as a tax shelter to hide their obscene profits from the phony 1972 Oil Crisis, this was the start of the war on the middle class & working poor God-forbid they actually pay taxes based on a clandestine windfall profits GE has not paid a single dollar in corporate taxes for over 30 years despite making $Billions in profit while our middle class has been bled dry supporting 2 bogus wars at one $ Trillion a year for 9 years, wonder why Obama the Oreo kept these horror shows going ??
Having not even seen the first movie, I was eager to see the sequel with everybody banging on about how good the first one was.There were admittedly a couple of humorous moments, but for the most part it was just awful.
Steve Carrel's character pi$$ed me off to no end - he is simply a woeful actor, and the movie might have redeemed itself a couple of stars if he didn't exist (if you found any of his lines funny I despair for you).
I think that the movie could have been a real hit in my point of view if the level of comedy were raised with a more "normal" acting and true jokes...Sorry!.
The gags were not funny, the situation comedy not even the slightest bit in the realm of possibilities for people with IQs above 50, and in the whole movie there were maybe 2 lines that were slightly amusing.
Whoever made this film obviously thinks that something being in bad taste and stupid is automatically funny, and sometimes it is, but in this case it was just painful to watch and actually insulting to the audience.
While the 1st movie may have had more consistent laughs from start to finish, the sequel has a few scenes that just blow the comedy level through the roof.
The surprise cameos in here are devastatingly funny.)Ferrell, playing arguably one of his best characters, nails his job, as does Paul Rudd, David Koechner, and Steve Carell.
Overall the first one was pretty good and was very funny at certain moments, not the same could be said for the second.I'll start off by saying the movie is way too long, beating its predecessor by nearly 30 mins.
Now don't get me wrong, there are certainly funny jokes and I laughed my ass off during the scene when Ron visited his new girlfriend's family.
But you really start wondering, because this is a travesty for the legend of the original cult movie Anchorman.The rating on this film here on IMDb is completely impossible to understand as well.
I can't deny laughing a few times but I was wanting to leave about 30 minutes into the movie.
I actually dozed off a couple of times, and the only thing preventing my from sleeping through the entire movie is my concern about snoring too loud (although I don't think it would have bothered the other 8 people in the theater).
This movie is like porn for the Anchorman fan, it's Ron Burgundy porn, can I give it any higher praise?
Easily one of the best comedies in an EXTREMELY long time (no I didn't forget about "This is the End", I still love that movie).
I knew the movie wasn't going to be great when I rented it, but I said, "What the hell, I have nothing else to do today, why not rent Anchorman 2 and kill some time".
This time I hated them, and the actors looked ashamed the entire movie.I thought it was going to take off when the plot of irreverent news stories dominating the 24-hour news cycle was introduced, but the movie was never about the plot, or anything really.I was bored and almost walked out, but I'm glad I at least stayed for the cameo bomb at the end of the movie, it's the only thing that saved this from a zero, but it even fell flat.This is definitely a "watch when it comes on FX" sort of movie.
Some may like the original or the sequel better, but pretty much everyone will agree that both are great.The movie starts off a little rough.
But Steve Carell was very efficient with the screen time he received.That is until...the last 10-15 minutes of the movie which while I can understand why they included it, it really was unnecessary and just did not fit the film at all.
Like I said, I laughed a few times but if you're a fan of the original, do yourself a favour and watch that again as it will be a much more satisfying experience..
I really enjoyed the first Anchorman movie but this sequel never should have been made.
I love the original as do most people and this could have been one of those rare sequels that was as funny as the first, the cast is good and they had all the ingredients to make it great.
I've seen a lot of bad movies, but none stand out as much as Anchorman 2, probably because the first one was so good so I was expecting so much, and for that I can only blame myself.
However, that movie became more funny to me over time..
Anchorman is one of my favorite "so stupid, it's funny" movies, and I went to see the sequel expecting more of the same slapstick and sex jokes.
There is definitely a lot more of the same lowbrow humor, and like the first movie (and, well, most things Will Ferrell does), the jokes are hit or miss.
I'm sick of seeing people put 'I loved the first movie, but not this one!' and I actually saw someone put that they're not going to see the film because of bad reviews.
Just like The Hangover movie where the original was much, much better than the sequel, Anchorman 2 failed to live up to its hype..
Anchorman 2: the Legend Continues is a fantastic movie with a great and hilarious storyline that will keep you laughing from start to finish.Will Ferrell,Christina Applegate,Steve Carell,Paul Rudd and David Koechner are all back for this sequel that has been highly anticipated since the movies release in 2004,and after this long wait and all the promoting the cast have been doing,I was very nervous about this film, and I can honestly say I wasn't a bit disappointed.The new members of the cast,including a tone of outstanding cameos,are all great, the best newcomer for me would have to be Kristen Wiig,she did a great and very funny job a Bricks love interest,who is just as stupid as he is.There is also an outstanding scene that is similar to the News Channel fight in the first Anchorman,but it's much bigger and much better,and filled with some outstanding and unexpected actors.If you're a fan of the first Anchorman and had high hopes for this sequel,trust me, you won't be disappointed,the first one is certainly better but this one is just as good and one of the most pleasing comedy sequels to date.
The movie kept me laughing for nearly the entire film, never leaving a dull moment.
Coming from a die hard Anchorman fan, if you liked the first film even a little or have any interest in Will Ferrell at all, this movie will speak wonders to you.