Part of me is quite surprised that I walked up to the ticket booth to buy a ticket for Anchorman since I still didn't see the two biggest films of the summer Spiderman 2, or one of the biggest movies of all time Fahrenheit 9/11. I didn't really like the first Spiderman, and hear this one is better. I don't really have a desire to see Michael Moore's film either. I just don't love the media's darling child as much as most people do I guess.
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell)tells the story of a news team of 1970 something San Diego dealing with the emergence of women anchors in the business. Christina Applegate plays the inspiring reporter that shares the same dreams that Burgndy has to work for the network news one day.
From the description you might think colleges would show this in communicators classes. However, the movie really isn't about anything and just uses that premise to keep the jokes rolling. The film starts almost starts out as a Best in Show style mocumentary, however that dissolves quickly into a zany parade of cartoonish skits.
In one scene Burgundy who is trying to impress the would be first anchor lady plays some jazz flute for her. That is actually what this movie is just comedic jazz. The actors come on the screen and just basically try to make the audience laugh seemingly making stuff up and playing off the other players. Little or no care is given to any kind of logical story line. The actors come on camera and over act in many cases shouting and throwing themselves around.
The movie belittles the importance of local news and every news story they cover is utterly meaningless. The rest of the broadcast team is made up of the creepy sports guy (who hits more sour notes than anyone in this comedic jazz concert), another reporter, and the seemingly retarded weatherman. Not one thing the weatherman (played by Daily show Alumni: Steve Colbert) says make no sense and it often times providing the some of the biggest laughs . All the men are sexist and are more interested in their sex lives than covering an actual news worthy story.
The first 30 mins of the film is pretty bad, however the movie picks up in laughs and eventually I got caught up in the utter stupidity of the film. One scene in particular involving all the rival affiliates engaged in a gang war spoofing Gangs of New York. At this point I realized how this movie wasn't going to allow a glimmer of seriousness shine. Sort of like the Naked Gun movies characters are there to make you laugh. Just living cartoons. Even if that means in reality they should have died several times.
Even the "love story" only goes on again off again to set up more sequences of jokes. An impressive list of A-list Hollywood stop by randomly to provide quite a few laughs, and you realize even more to just leave your brain at the door.
The movie is way over the top zany and Ferrell haters should either see Fahrenheit 9/11 for the 5th time or seek Cicadas in their backyard to better fill their summer night. I laughed out loud enough times to consider it a funny movie. Some of the off the wall-lines and scenes will likely to become legendary inside the walls of frat houses.
The guy that co-wrote it grew up in the area, and some people think the Anchorman is modeled after either Jim Gardner or the now retire Larry Kane. I seriously hope not for their sake!
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A.) 6 ABC's Action News.
Keith you mean Steve Carell is in the movie, Stephen Colbert is the guy with the glasses from the Daily Show, even though Steve Carell wears the glasses in this movie. The movie is based on local guys I do not know about the male leads but the premise was based on the first female anchor in the country which was in Philly, I believe her name was Jessica Savitz.
Also don't you think that you should see a movie before decide to utterly hate the movie and the man that makes it? That is a lot of anger from a moderate.
J
Seriously, Keith, you have some deep seated issues to work out with respect to Michael Moore. If you're upset at the media coverage his movie is continuing to get, you should tell the Right Wing crazies to shut up and stop giving him free press. Why don't you just post a rant about it and get it all out, rather than a few snide comments here and there? You might feel better.
I am just spoofing the Micheal Moore mania just like the Cicada mania. Big deal. I goof on eveything that is over saturated on this blog, I always have. From non-existant storms to summer bugs.
All I said is I have no desire to his film. I didn't say anything about the film that I didn't see oppinion or not. I just said I didn't want to see the film.
I also said that he was a media darling. Next time you are Wawa take a look at the magazine rack. Lots of people love the man, and I am not one of them and I stated how I was in the minority.
Where exactly did I bash the film? I was serious when I said it was one of the biggest movies of all time. If anything I applauded Moore. I saw about four trailers for doucmentaries coming out its going to make a big impacts on that genre. People will list this as one of the biggest movies of whatever decade we are in. It will be in film books that movie snobs read in 10 years when its older. Seriously, I just felt I should explain why I didn't see the two films everyone is talking about.
As for hating the man? I knew who Micheal Moore was back in like 1993, and I actually liked him at one point. Eventally he got too annoying and I don't like him. I made you guys watch Candian Bacon. I just said I didnt love him. Its not like I never heard of him. Are you two feeling okay?
If you want to talk about unhealthy obession Drew you might want to do a google search for Drew and Bush.
Okay 45, Tuckers World Points to anyone who finds when I bashed the film in this blog.
Ed I am going to be fair and give you the points for the news show. EVENTHOUGH really the answer is WPVI the local affliate of ABC 6. But you refered to it as Action NEws so.
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