Review of Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013) by Kiko E — 13 Jul 2014
A sequel to a hit comedy is almost never as good or funny as the first one. Comedy usually comes from the unexpected. For every 22 Jump Street that succeeds there are countless Hangovers, Police Academies, National Lampoons that diminish in quality as the movies continue to cash in.
Anchorman 2 falls in the latter category. This movie was heavily promoted, Will Ferrell graced the covers of Rolling Stone, Dog Fancy, Entertainment Weekly, showed up on ESPN to interview Peyton Manning, selling Dodge Durango commercials as Ron Burgundy.
Coming about a decade after the first one, I wonder why this was ever made in the first place. An All Star cast and an excellent late 70's soundtrack can't save this. Will Ferrell plays the same idiotic, cocky guy he's been playing since his SNL days.
The entire movie plays out like an unfunny SNL skit dragged out for two hours. Unnecessary celebrity cameos abound, especially in the last scene which tries to recreate the battle to the death from the first movie with pretty much every celebrity ever living (Will Smith, Tina Fey, Harrison Ford, Kanye West, to name a few) There is a feeble attempt at social satire that any episode of the Colbert Report and The Daily Show does so much better.
Ron Burgundy (Ferrell) has a relationship with a black newscaster that is uncomfortably racist. This is the worst Will Ferrell movie I've ever seen but I avoided Bewitched and Land Of The Lost. A disappointment.
Stay away.
This review of Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013) was written by Kiko E on 13 Jul 2014.
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues has generally received mixed reviews.
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