Anchorman 2 Review

I can’t lie, I may be biased for my obsession with the original Anchorman, but I thought Anchorman 2 was even better. It starts out with the same news team trying to get the gang back together, to star on a 24 hour news channel. The team consists of Will Ferrell (Ron Burgandy), Steve Carell (Brick), Paul Rudd (Brian Fantana), and David Koechner (Champ Kind). The movie starts out so solid, cracking jokes about Paul Rudd’s character becoming a cat photographer, David Koechner’s selling bat wings and telling people it’s chicken, and Brick attending his own funeral…thinking he’s dead. I think what makes the movie so solid is the fact that it makes ABSOLUTELY no sense at all. It is just a mash up of jokes and random celebrity appearances (including the wonderful Kristen Wiig).

SORRY IF I’M SPOLING IT

Anyway, they proceed to have ‘beef’ with another news team, until Ron quits, moves to a lighthouse, and takes in a shark named Doby. This scene consists of a full children’s choir singing a song about Doby’s future life, and how he will miss him forever. Oh yeah, Ron also becomes blind for a couple months, then, gets a very simple surgery that proves he no longer is. The movie has a lot of controversy due to the racial jokes, however the cast and director are both completely not racist, they were just trying to portray that time period in a joking manner. After all, comedies always take risks. The movie is full of countless jokes such as Brick thinking he has no legs because he was in front of a green screen, the bus tipping over in slow motion, and the appearance of many beloved stars, including some of my favorite, Amy Pohler and Tina Fey. Oh, and Kanye West shows up too.

I got the privilege to see an early screening of the movie along with meeting the director, Adam McKay. He was an amazing man, because he was so normal and chill. He told us about how, the only way he makes up his jokes is, “being at a table with a bunch of idiots and doing what we can.” He also said, “we tried to get a dragon breathing fire, but I couldn’t afford it, so I made John C. Reilly as the ghost of Stonewall Jackson. That ended up being fine for me.” Meeting him made me realize how normal he was, and how he just wants to do something to make the rest of the world laugh.

Anyway, if you haven’t seen Anchorman Two, or Anchorman for that matter, I HIGHLY recommend it. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elczv0ghqw0