Anchorman - The Legend Of Ron Burgundy (2004)
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 196
Fresh: 130 | Rotten: 66
Filled with inspired silliness and quotable lines, Anchorman isn't the most consistent comedy in the world, but Will Ferrell's buffoonish central performance helps keep this portrait of a clueless newsman from going off the rails.
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Critic Reviews: 40
Fresh: 26 | Rotten: 14
Filled with inspired silliness and quotable lines, Anchorman isn't the most consistent comedy in the world, but Will Ferrell's buffoonish central performance helps keep this portrait of a clueless newsman from going off the rails.
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Marking the directorial debut of Adam McKay, former head writer for Saturday Night Live and founder of the Upright Citizen's Brigade, Anchorman is set during the 1970s and stars Will Ferrell as Ron Burgundy, San Diego's top-rated news anchorman. While Burgundy is outwardly willing to adjust to the idea of females in the workplace -- even outside of secretarial positions -- he certainly doesn't want his own job challenged. Keeping that in mind, it's no wonder that the arrival of Veronica
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Cast
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Will Ferrell
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Christina Applegate
Veronica Corningstone -
Paul Rudd
Brian Fantana -
Steve Carell
Brick Tamland -
David Koechner
Champ Kind -
Fred Willard
Ed Harken -
Chris Parnell
Garth Holiday -
Kevin Corrigan
Paul Hauser -
Chad Everett
Jess Moondragon -
Stephen Root
Vince Masters -
Tara Subkoff
Sandra -
Vince Vaughn
Wes Mantooth -
Justin Long
Chris Harken -
Maya Rudolph
Deedra X -
Seth Rogen
Cameraman -
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Kathryn Hahn
Helen -
Chris Williams
Rashad Harris -
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All Critics (196) | Top Critics (40) | Fresh (132) | Rotten (67) | DVD (27)
Takes a joke and runs with it -- sometimes too far, but usually long enough to wear you down and force you to submit to its craziness.
Top CriticSlaps a goofy smile on your face.
It has a pleasing, noodly elasticity about it -- the picture knows what its limits are and proceeds to boogie unself-consciously far outside them.
Wonderfully silly all the time.
You will laugh. Then you will laugh some more. Then you will laugh still again.
Like most of these sofa-spud comedies, Anchorman bears its attention-deficit disorder proudly, as it shifts tone and abruptly sidetracks.
Incredibly silly yet often hilarious...
[A] very funny, silly, and well acted comedy that must be watched for the great laugh out loud performances, and gut busting gags.
Silly comedy that's definitely not for kids
It's nearly perfect.
By no means ... a great movie. But I not only understand why some people love it, I think I'm even beginning to love it a little myself.
Laughs galore follow the well-paced humor as cameo performances by Jack Black, Tim Robbins, and Luke Wilson spice up the buffoonery ingeniously smacked at by the rest of movie's talented ensemble.
Relentlessly silly but not quite funny parody of 70s network news never quite lives up to its promise.
Some of the material works, some doesn't.
This goofy, energetic comedy flattens out at times but milks its 1970s setting and characters for numerous huge laughs.
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...there are bits and pieces that undoubtedly remain in memory, and for those moments alone, one has to admire the effort. (Blu-ray Edition)
...like a 'Saturday Night Live' skit that got out of hand, a good idea that kept going and going but never quite jelled into a story.
A crude, funny satire that tackles local television anchors and their newscasts. Those are easy targets to skewer, but the movie mines more truth from its subject than some in the biz will want to admit.
Some of Anchorman is the kind of giddy, nonsensical stuff that can only emerge from a genuinely deranged comic brain.
Ostensibly modeled on the egomaniacal Ted Baxter of the old Mary Tyler Moore TV series, this adventure's protagonist is less comical, less endearing, and generally grates on the nerves.
Word is Ferrell got the idea for the film one night while watching a documentary on the male dominated world of 70s television news. His fans should thank their lucky stars the comedian happened to catch it.
There hasn't been a movie this silly or funny since Austin Powers.
...somehow Will Farrell manages to hold the whole mess together.
Audience Reviews for Anchorman - The Legend Of Ron Burgundy
Super Reviewer
What does matter is Will Ferrell. The film revolves around him and exists just to give him moments of wackiness. The rest of the cast is amazing but they are inconsequential to the success of the film. At times their presence is distracting as the film starts to feel like "spot the A-lister". Look, it's Ben Stiller! Tim Robbins! Seth Rogan!
"Anchorman - The Legend of Ron Burgundy"'s script is loaded with silly moments and, what has made it a cult classic, a boatload of inspired lines. " I don't know how to put this but I'm kind of a big deal." "I'm gonna punch you in the ovary, that's what I'm gonna do. A straight shot. Right to the babymaker" among others.
So if you want a goofy smile on your face, turn on "Anchorman" it will deliver silly laughs without taxing the brain.
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- Ron Burgundy: I'm in a glass case of emotion.
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- Ron Burgundy: Go fuck yourself San Diego
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- Ron Burgundy: It's so hot. Milk was a bad choice.
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- Brian Fantana: They've done studies you know. Sixty percent of the time it works every time.
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- Brick Tamland: I hear that their periods attract bears. The bears can smell the menstration.
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- Veronica Corningstone: Brick are you saying that there is a party in your pants and that I'm invited?
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