Avoid Anchorman like the plague, you’ll thank me later.
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09/19/04
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
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Reviews Counted:186
Fresh:120
Rotten:66
Average Rating:6.2/10
Consensus: It's a one-joke premise, but the movie is amiably dumb, and there are scenes of inspired goofiness.
Theatrical Release:10-09-2004
Synopsis: Will Ferrell ("Elf," "Old School") stars as Ron Burgundy, the top-rated anchorman in San Diego in the ‘70s. When feminism marches into the newsroom in the form of ambitious newswoman Veronica... [More]
Starring: Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Paul Rudd, David Koechner
Director: Adam McKay
Reviews for Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
1 - 20 (sorted by rotten rating; UK critics are listed first)
Certainly the silliest comedy of the year, but mainly in a good way.
09/11/04
Top CriticTakes a joke and runs with it -- sometimes too far, but usually long enough to wear you down and force you to submit to its craziness.
06/24/06
Top CriticDoesn't quite live up to the promise of its admittedly funny trailer, though it does have several good laugh-out-loud gags.
09/11/04
This is ideal Friday night fodder if you're in the right mood.
09/07/04
Top CriticThe period vibe is basically the whole point to this charming and often very funny film.
08/12/04
No review available.
10/25/04
Top Criticso many ways to go with something witty, sharp, or just plain fun . . .the filmmakers instead went with pointless, dull, obvious, and sophomoric
07/08/04
For every gag that works, there's one that doesn't, and the story is too thin to keep us engaged otherwise.
07/08/04
You're just left wishing that Tina Fey had lent a helping hand -- or that they'd wheeled in some old hands from the real '70s newsroom gender comedy, The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
07/09/04
Will Ferrell shows that even he is not immune to looking bad when faced with bad material, even if it's his own. Possibly one of the worst directed films of the year.
07/07/04
Burgundy is dim, vain and unrepentantly horny, but there is something so limited about him that he seems more pitiable than funny.
07/08/04
Overly broad humor with little on its mind.
07/09/04
You go ... hoping for good, dumb fun. Well, one out of three ain't bad. But that doesn't exactly make Anchorman good, either.
07/09/04
News Flash - it's not that funny!
07/09/04
Occasionally, it entertains us for three minutes or so, but it lurches from one skitlike scene to another, charting out like this: funny, not funny, not funny, funny, not, not, not, funny, not, funny, not, not.
07/09/04
Partway through the uneven string of skits that comprises Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, the film loses its mind completely.
07/08/04
The laughs arrive on stale crackers of the easy, breezy and familiar.
07/09/04
Dumb, dumber, dumberest!
07/08/04
It's one of those movies where every good joke is in the trailer, which was a hilarious two-minute spot that promised so much more than this sloppy, lazy effort manages to deliver.
07/09/04
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