Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)
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Critics Consensus: It's just as uneven and loosely structured as the first Anchorman -- and while Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues may not be quite as quotable, it's nearly as funny as its predecessor.
Critics Consensus: It's just as uneven and loosely structured as the first Anchorman -- and while Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues may not be quite as quotable, it's nearly as funny as its predecessor.
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With the 70's behind him, San Diego's top rated newsman, Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell), returns to the news desk in "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues." Also back for more are Ron's co-anchor and wife, Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate), weather man Brick Tamland (Steve Carell), man on the street Brian Fantana (Paul Rudd) and sports guy Champ Kind (David Koechner) - All of whom won't make it easy to stay classy...while taking the nation's first 24-hour news channel by storm. (c) Paramount- Rating:
- R (for language, drug use, sexual material and references)
- Genre:
- Comedy
- Directed By:
- Adam McKay
- Written By:
- Will Ferrell , Adam McKay
- In Theaters:
- Dec 18, 2013 Wide
- On DVD:
- Apr 1, 2014
- US Box Office:
- $127.3M
Cast
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Will Ferrell
as Ron Burgundy -
Paul Rudd
as Brian Fantana -
Steve Carell
as Brick Tamland -
David Koechner
as Champ Kind -
Christina Applegate
as Veronica Corningston... -
Kristen Wiig
as Chani
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Critic Reviews for Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
All Critics (186) | Top Critics (41) | Fresh (139) | Rotten (47)
Ferrell and McKay were so determined to tell new Burgundy jokes that they didn't appear to care what they were about or whether they were any good.
Worth a watch despite occasional laugh-free stretches ...
The whole thing goes down like a second, giant tumbler of scotchy scotch scotch: familiar, comforting and, ultimately, numbing.
At its best, McKay and Ferrell's brand of homegrown American Dada can make you collapse laughing in your seat and cry uncle.
Wine connoisseurs would call this a new Burgundy with an old bouquet.
This is the kind of movie where most people know what they want and are pretty sure what they will get, that being "more of the same, please."
A worthy followup to the first film
The unscripted, off-the-cuff joshing between Ferrell and co-stars Paul Rudd, Steve Carell and David Koechner this time fails to come up with enough good jokes, though they do hit the occasional satirical bull's eye.
I can't imagine fans will come away disappointed with the amount of laughs to be had here. Stay unclassy, Ron Burgundy.
It goes on a bit longer than it probably needs to, but the humor hits more than it misses, resulting in only a few sluggish places in a film that otherwise pays its audience's desire to revel in nonstop absurdity with just a dash of genuine social satire
Anchorman 2-2 extracts, objectively, 20 percent more of a viewer's lifespan than its fleeter ancestor did, and certainly it does not feel, subjectively, like 20 percent richer an experience.
Brevity is a friend to McKay, but as experimentations go, reworking known elements to manufacture a new perspective on all the monkey business, and the "Super-Sized R-Rated Version" remains a mirthful and mischievous vision.
Burgundy's earnest manly stupidity is a sure-fire laugh-getter and while he's off on his own a lot more this time around, his news team remains convincing both as his buddies and as different varieties of total idiots.
A hulking, Rob Ford-like movie; a lazy, drunken-stupor mess. The non-comedy includes Burgundy telling his ex she's 'like a mentally ill whore having PMS from the 1800s.' Slapdash, flat, bloated (119 min.) and gratingly full of its own white-power bulls**t
Fittingly, it all climaxes with a cacophonous, cameo-filled brawl between anchor teams from increasingly esoteric cable-TV territories.
A distressingly underwhelming sequel...
I laughed more than a few times, but for every joke that hits, there's at least one that misses.
The movie works the borderland that connects the satirical and the surreal; the humor is scattershot but sometimes laugh-out-loud hilarious.
Anchorman 2 is louder, sillier and vastly more absurd than its now cult predecessor, but it's also longer, so when those less successful sequences miss the mark it feels like there are yawning chasms between laughs instead of beats.
I'm actually surprised that a major film studio (Paramount) would thumb their nose so openly at the competition (Fox). Good on them. They've got balls.
'Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues' is even cleverer and more outrageous than its predecessor.
McKay and Ferrell keep the jokes naughty not dirty and flying for shrapnel accuracy; many miss, but when one hits it counts.
...has just enough curlicues of silliness.
All of the returning actors are funny and strong, with Rudd's Brian Fantana a standout. New guest stars, including Kristen Wiig, James Marsden and Harrison Ford shine just as bright as the story's regular cast members.
A velvet suit, trim moustached, salon quality haired, barely solid sequel to a comedy classic.
Audience Reviews for Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
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What made the original "Anchorman" special, was the unexpected absurdity of it: the time period, the focus on gender politics, the inane and yet hilarious exploits of its news team. This sequel doesn't quite have the same edge, or at least the same unexpectedness of its predecessor. Most of the funny moments in this film aim to be silly instead of shocking. What really puts me off about this film is its inability to let jokes die out quickly, and instead goes far too long with gags. The sequel also casts out elements from the first film that remain fan favorites, included Baxter the dog, the banter between Ron and Veronica, and a reliability on its time period. This new film tries to bring commentary on news networks of today into its eighties' setting without any modicum of satire, instead relying on more gags. If this film had come out earlier, it probably would have been better suited. Now it's a little tired and egotistical. Still, that being said, at least Anchorman 2 knows what it is and revels in it with complete absurdity when possible, which is uncommon nowadays.
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Anchorman has become a victim of it's own hype and of oversized egos. I really liked the first film but most of the cast have been living off it but never bettering it ever since. I like its comment on the change of media style and the loss of real journalism but hardly anything was funny. Certain scenes, like when Ron Burgundy goes blind and when he visits a black family, are uncomfortably unfunny. Everyone tries too hard to emulate the greatness of the first film and in the end they all look like they're not trying hard enough. The overkill of cameos just goes to show how hard up for ideas they really are. I liked the scenes with Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig but that's about all.
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Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues Quotes
- Ron Burgundy:
- Walter, listen to me. Life isn't a fairy tale, it's not a bunch of jumping rope and grabbing ass. It's complicated. What do you want to do with your life? What do you want to be when you grow up?
- Walter Burgundy:
- I want to be an astronaut or a cowboy!
- Ron Burgundy:
- You're never gonna be any of those, okay?
- Veronica Corningstone:
- Ron!
- Ron Burgundy:
- You've gotta set the bar a lot lower. Service industry, fry cook, prison guard. Maybe you're a lighting guy at a porn shoot. Which basically means you hold up a flashlight while adults do things.
- Veronica Corningstone:
- He is a child, Ron!
- Ron Burgundy:
- Nah, nah, nah, nah! He's got hair on his nugs. He's old enough to hear this.
- Veronica Corningstone:
- I will lock you in a closet!
- Ron Burgundy:
- Guess what, Trevor? Every morning I get here half an hour earlier and I sexually assault a starfish!
- Ron Burgundy:
- Damn it Lupita, what have you've been doing up there? Eating nachos?
- Brick Tamland:
- Hi, my name is Brick Tamland and I was dead last week.
- Champ Kind:
- Whammy!
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