These are obviously just stitched-together bits that these improv masters worked through until they got funny. Their dedication pays off more often than not, especially when the cast strives for outrageousness.
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07/09/04
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Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
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Reviews Counted:186
Fresh:120
Rotten:66
Average Rating:6.2/10
Consensus: It's a one-joke premise, but the movie is amiably dumb, and there are scenes of inspired goofiness.
Theatrical Release:Jul 9, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $84,136,909
Synopsis: Will Ferrell ("Elf," "Old School") stars as Ron Burgundy, the top-rated anchorman in San Diego in the ‘70s. When feminism marches into the newsroom in the form of ambitious newswoman Veronica... [More]
Starring: Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Paul Rudd, David Koechner
Director: Adam McKay
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Reviews for Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Certainly the silliest comedy of the year, but mainly in a good way.
09/11/04
It is not as maniacally uninhibited as Old School or as dementedly lovable as Elf, but its cheerful dumbness is hard to resist.
07/08/04
Top Critic...consistently ridiculous and hysterical, despite its messy mid-movie abandonment of the subject it sets out to parody.
07/12/04
A straight shot of that good stuff.
10/06/04
May cause hysterical fits of laughter -- stay tuned for further details.
07/09/04
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.
06/24/06
Nearly as offensive as it is funny.
07/09/04
it seems like Ferrell can take just about any idea, however threadbare, and make it funny.
07/08/04
Ron Burgundy takes his place among the multitude of amusing characters portrayed by one of today's most talented comics.
07/09/04
I could have used more smarm and crisply delineated battle-of-sexes confrontation, but Ferrell’s overwrought mania and wholesale comedic devotion again sell the laffs.
07/13/04
So funny that you won't care that it has no real plot but boasts more bad wigs than The Lord of the Rings...
04/01/05
Ferrell has seized on a clever concept rife with possibilities -- namely, women breaking the glass ceiling in male-dominated TV news during the '70s -- and smartly surrounded himself with a topnotch cast.
06/30/04
Top CriticFerrell is at the top of his game, giving us a character who is utterly shallow, silly, and vainglorious, yet completely likable.
08/04/04
To praise Anchorman for perceptive social commentary would be giving the movie more credit than it deserves, but it isn’t just pratfalls and sexual humour.
07/19/04
Anchorman may be uneven, but Will Ferrell's Ron Burgundy is a character worth revisiting
07/09/04
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.
08/05/07
That he can make his anchorman chauvinistic, deluded and ridiculous but still manage to give him some humanity is testimony to Ferrell's comic talents.
07/08/04
Funny in a roly-poly, shapeless way. Sort of like Ferrell's gut.
07/08/04
A 'Stupid Comedy' that gleefully celebrates the absurd and actually trusts its audience to be smart.
07/08/04
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