Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)'s comments

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daisyaday

This movie is so bad and unfunny that I wish I could poke out my mind's eye.

12 years 6 months ago

Duke of Omnium

I found it incredibly unfunny. Every punch line was telegraphed a mile away, and wasn't all that good anyhow.

12 years ago

-TJ-

First time I actually liked something Will Ferrel starred in. But some of his jokes/moves were already becoming old during the movie, the runtime was just enough

12 years 4 months ago

Earring72

VERY silly and just mildly funny. Barely ok.

7 years 11 months ago

What does it say about me or the film that I enjoyed the outtakes from Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy more than the movie itself? It's this strange Bizarro animal that really is a feminist story, but since it focuses on the sexist douchebags that won't let Christina Applegate's anchorwoman into the boys' club, comes off as an "isn't sexism fun?" dumbass comedy, so exactly the opposite. It makes me squirm because I truly believe that fare like this (I soured on Mad Men as well), though meant as satire (very blunt satire in this case), is lost on literal-minded dudebros who go on to repeat the jokes and behavior they find so funny on screen. The relatively recent rise of extremist masculinism coincides with these entertainments, and I blame them in part for mainstreaming the ugly message. But perhaps that's not Anchorman's fault. I can find plenty of others, from the protagonist being a dull, badly acted caricature I would have found lacking in a 4-minute sketch on SNL, or the various non sequiturs that distract from whatever story they're trying to tell, like the News Team gang wars. Make this about Appelgate's character or even about journalism in the early 70s and you've got something that could be funny, biting and poignant. As is, everyone in the movie is way too dumb and fake to make any kind of impact on me. Left me cold.

8 years 7 months ago

stexdo

Very good absurd comedy. The character played by Ferrell will be the same he will play for almost all of his next movies but it's still pretty funny.

10 years ago

Rigters

Awesomeness at it's best. Weird but funny movie. Also very adorable... Steve Carell MVP

10 years 9 months ago

Carota

pointless as fuck

10 years 11 months ago

Torgo

An uniquely absurd comedy not many would have expected. The amount of daily quotable lines is endless.
One day, Steve Carell will be remembered as Brick Tamland.

12 years 4 months ago