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 (4)
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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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It definitely didn't grab me as much as the first film did, but there are still parts here that are great. Some of the actors have aged a bit, but others are excellent. The best part is undoubtedly the scene at the end, where the true comedic elite comes together. It’s an awesome scene and what I had been waiting for the whole movie. However, the film is unnecessarily long and sometimes so schematic that it didn't entertain me much.
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