Directed by:
Adam McKayCinematography:
Oliver WoodCast:
Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, David Koechner, Steve Carell, Christina Applegate, Meagan Good, Dylan Baker, James Marsden, Greg Kinnear, Harrison Ford (more)VOD (3)
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With the 70's behind him, San Diego's top rated newsman, Ron Burgundy, returns to the news desk. After losing his job to his wife and co-anchor Veronica, Ron reassembles the news team and squares off against a new rival. Having left San Diego for New York City, Ron Burgundy is living the high life with his wife Veronica and son Walter. However, when the boss decides to promote Veronica to full time lead anchor and fire Ron, everything changes. Now heading back to San Diego, Ron is washed up and working part time at Sea World. His shot at redemption though comes in the form of a man named Freddie Schapp, who's an executive producer at the Global News Network, the world's first 24 hour round the clock news channel. He hires Ron, who proceeds to reunite the news team of Champ, Brick, and Brian, and head back to New York City. While there Ron and his news team are given the graveyard shift and a challenge. Ron comes up with a radical new idea to transform the news and that puts him at the top of the game once again. (official distributor synopsis)
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The first Anchorman was wackier in my opinion. In the second instalment, the true crazy ride only starts at the ending. Until then, it is kind of bland. The ending, however, spices it up by delivering the greatest anchorman battle I’ve ever seen in a movie.
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Compared to the first part, this was a bit of a decline, because this time it was... well, in places almost annoying, there was too much screaming, and several times more awkwardly funny than hilariously awkward. Will Ferrell was nevertheless fine, though again a 100 per cent idiot, and I was also reliably entertained by Steve Carell, this time in a cutely belated romance with Kristen Wiig (who could resist?). The final battle was seriously something from The Avengers, and if the shorter version I saw also contained the cut scene with a shark cub and a grown-up shark (look it up on YouTube), I'd give it a fourth star.
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Definitely, it didn't impress me as much as the first movie, but there are still great moments here. Some actors have aged a bit, but others are excellent. The best part is definitely the scene at the end, where the comedy elites come together. It's a fantastic scene and what I've been waiting for throughout the whole film. However, it's unnecessarily long and sometimes overly schematic to the point that it didn't really entertain me much.
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