![]() When they are called into a meeting with the network's about-to-retire weeknight anchor, one of those high-minded grumpy types nicely impersonated by Harrison Ford, he gives Veronica the plum job at the same time as giving Ron his marching orders, telling him he's the worst anchorman he has ever encountered. It is seven years after the early 1970s-set first movie and former San Diego news sparring partners Ron (Ferrell) and Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate) are now married, living in the Big Apple and co-anchoring the weekend news for a national network. It's not quite in the Network or Broadcast News class but smart enough to go way over the head of Burgundy's bunch. In other words, for all its audacious insanity, in which we get Ron taking his famous unhinged jazz flute sequence to new levels of amazingness, and Steve Carell's Brick so lacking in insight he even attends his own funeral, Anchorman 2 is a pretty good satire. However, what's so surprising about Anchorman 2 is how astutely McKay and Ferrell have anchored their icon comic creation to the history of American journalism, with the blow-dried boofhead Burgundy and his equally empty-headed crew cast as villains in the decline of broadcast news. When Adam McKay and Will Ferrell sat down to conceive a sequel to Anchorman, the temptation must have been to repeat and to upscale, to give Ron Burgundy's huge cult following more of the madcap mix of retro sexist attitudes and free wheeling absurdist humour.Īnd to an extent this is what director McKay and star Ferrell have done with Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, with the surrealist improv scenes allowed to run on so long Salvador Dali would be twirling his moustache in approval, and the signature rival-newsman rumble amped up to Michael Bay levels. ![]()
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