Anchorman:The legend of Ron Burgundy

Anchorman: The legend of Ron Burgundy

Will Ferrell doesn’t impress much. The last one of his, I saw was ‘Bewitched’ and he was awful there. ‘Anchorman’ is set in seventies where only men were the news anchors and then for this news man of San Diego life starts to become hard after he had to start working with a new bright newswoman. As happens with all happy ending movies, by the end of the movie, Ron learns to work with woman in his profession. The movie makes us laugh at certain points and hammers your brain with ‘yellacting’ (more of yelling than acting) from all the lead actors. The fighting sequences between competitive news channels were funny. Sometimes the sequences go out of mind, but this is what is expected from a “comedy” movie. Christina Applegate acts weirdly in some of the early sequences. This ‘at times’ irreverent comedy is engaging for most part but becomes dead slow at other times. This movie seems like any other Jim Carrey movie and Will Ferrell seemed to act like ‘Bruce Almighty’ at times.

‘Anchorman’ is equally appealing and appalling at the same time. There are not many ‘laugh out loud’ scenes. Much of the fun and humor, most of which is insensitively uncomfortable, focuses on the Ferrell and team’s expressive sexism, and Veronica's determination to overcome it. Romance developed between Veronica and Ron seemed awkwardly bizarre. SP recommended this movie to me as the best comedy of Y2K4 but as far as my views are concerned, if you have nothing to do in your free 90 minutes then only give it a try, I won’t recommend it much.

My Rating:6.4/10
Entertainment Value:74%