The Worst Film Ever

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This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

The first Ron Burgundy movie was a funny movie. The satire wasn't very biting or anything but it's just a ridiculous comedy about ridiculous characters. One of the movies where Will Ferrell is the lead but doesn't annoy or "get old" to me, and the supporting cast is really great. The dog scene made me cough up my soda. Not much more to it than that and the story is simple but it was definitely funny which is all that movie needed to be. This sequel is very disappointing though. The characters are there but they're not as fresh, not as funny, and get kind of annoying. The stories are just kind of stupid. Most of all it just is missing all the laughs it had in the first movie. And the new characters were really annoying to me. I love the actors in other movies but not in this one.

The first Anchorman (2004) contained many one-liners, phrases and wisecracks that were absolutely genius and made the original a film that people love to quote from. "Boy that escalated quickly", "60% percent of the time, it works every time", "cannonball", "you are a smelly pirate hooker". The timing shown by the spirited actors (Ferrel, Carroll, Rudd, Koechar, Applegate, Vaughn) was amazing as they convincingly portrayed the goofy characters. However, with "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues" I watched the first 40 minutes and only had a few laughs, the film got worse as it went on and I ended up skimming through the remaining hour as this film for the best part is very disappointing and fails to be funny. Anchorman 2 relentlessly borrows concepts, scenarios, wisecracks and jokes from the original Anchorman (2004) in an ineffective and/or dull manner for the majority of the film. We've seen it before! Only this time it is unfunny and not even a 100th as witty or funny as the first film. The problem was not any of the actors from the original film, it was the fact they had little to work with here and their talents were forcibly shriveled by a poorly executed film production. Will Ferrell was a wasted talent put in a position where he basically did not have the freedom or the decent feed to give us a great performance in that amusingly unique way he does. Ferrell tries to be funny but without any decent material it was not possible and he seems only to overact. The Champ & Brian characters, who were very funny in the 2004 version, were unable to give us many laughs with such a weakly and seemingly idly put together film. The character of Brick was so limited by the poor script writing and his dire love story-line that he was practically cemented from giving the audience any laughs. A tragic shame, given that Brick in the original film was absolutely hilarious. What's more it copies the scenario from the original of Cordingstone being subjected to satire "sexism" ridicule and gender jokes upon her introduction and ending up in a relationship with Ron,(which had a very amusing outcome in the first one). "it is anchorman not anchorlady", "watch out for the guns they'll get ya" & the prank calls). It copies this skit largely by replacing Cordinstone with an African-American woman who is Ron's GNN Manager and subjecting her to similar "narrow-mindedness" and now "racist" satire, but it simply does not work as well. Neither the scenes of the GNN Manager nor the skit with the jokes at her family dinner offer the same level of hilarity as we saw with Cordinstone in the original. Once again Ron has a rival crew (lime), who was actually one of the better characters, but it just didn't have that same zing as it did with Wes Man Tooth and was minus all the funny insults (toilet store). It also copies, in a very drawn out fashion, the big fight scene from the original, only it fails here too. I loved the sheer fun of the fight scene in the first film, in the sequel it was rather inane and stale.Basically, it seems as thought lot of effort went into the production of the original 2004 film,whilst little effort has gone into the sequel, because I see no other reason for this decline in quality.Lastly, the plot for number 2 was non-existent and haphazard thus it did not have the exquisite 1970s atmosphere or solid story-line of the original Anchorman film that set the platform for a classy comedy.

For the comedy side there is this one laughing out loud racist gag plus 2 or 3 smiles- and that's it. As for the satire, the movie shows in a pill the (not historically correct) degradation of news programs. And this could be the whole review, because such a "comedy" only deserves such a short "review"Unfortunately there is this Steve Carell secondary character- not only totally not funny, but simply extremely annoying. And to make it even worst, they gave him a female counterpart in a form of also not funny and annoying love interest, portrayed by Kristen WiigAnd that wraps up the reviewNo, wait: there is also this idiotic long action scene near the end, with multiple cameos, that is suited for the mentally impaled grownups or for children with a sense of taste to be yet developed. And that scene is also rather boring; just like the whole movie

99% of the jokes in this movie were either recycled from the first movie or just random amalgamations of words that had really no relation to each other or relevance to anything. Much as family guy can be criticized for just saying random things and calling them jokes, Anchorman 2 does the same, minus the humor. I love a dumb joke as much as the next person, but the thing is, you can't just string funny words together whenever you want and call it a comedy. Although it had a few good moments, as a whole this movie was very disappointing. Whereas the first movie had genuinely funny jokes and original ideas, the sequel suffered from a lack of creativity and a crippling dependence on the first movie's plot structure. I wouldn't recommend paying any money to see this film.