Anchorman 2

Will Ferrel himself (in character as Ron Burgandy even...) confirmed that its happening on the Conan O Brian show just now.

Not sure if want....

edited 28th Mar '12 8:14:49 PM by dmysta3000

Would it not be just like Ron Burgundy to say that it's happening, regardless of the truth, though?

Well as long as it's coming

@JR: Lol.

edited 28th Mar '12 10:08:28 PM by 0dd1

Smooth

edited 28th Mar '12 10:20:48 PM by JRPictures

Interesting.

Think it'll still be set in the 70's, or will it be moved up into the 80's or something?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_Up,_Ron_Burgundy:_The_Lost_Movie

does that count?

By the beard of Zeus!

..... (speechless)

Teaser

I ate the entire cheese wheel in celebration. Babybel cheese counts, right?

Woo! It's shooting for 4 months in NYC, and I'm probably getting some work in it.

I...no one here saw it? It was great!

Why isn't there a page yet for this movie yeah I know it just came out but thats not an excuse as other pages have been live before the movies release,

lol @ quote "I literally fought a minotaur to be here"

Loves you Ron Burgundy. ^^

No homo.

I just watched it. It was funny. It was certainly worth the price of admission. The cameos (which I won't spoil) are to die for. So are the dangerously high levels of 1980s this film contains.

But...

The best line about the film came, surprisingly enough, from Slate:

Which is true. Most of the film will have you shaking with laughter, some of it will have you checking your watch and groaning as it dies on its arse. It's not enough to spoil the film, but it is noticeable, especially when Anchorman was a laugh-a-minute, and perfectly paced. Anchorman 2 is not; the film is, on the whole, extremely funny, but one gets the sense that they tried to cram as many gags and in-jokes into a small film as they could. The result is a sort of lumpy sausage of a film, which is definitely bigger at either end. It starts extremely well.

Best bits:

• The opening.
• Harrison Ford
• A hilarious sequence when Burgundy goes blind.
• Brick Tamland steals the film, as does his love interest.
• Brick's first date, where he takes his (equally stupid) love to a soda machine in a launderette.
• Marion Cotillard
• Burgundy's brief tenure as a SeaWorld announcer, and his announcement that he comes in early to rape starfish.
• Veronica's abortive interview with Yasser Arafat.
• Veronica and Ron's family dynamic.
• Ron goes blind and lives in a lighthouse for a while. It's good.
• Doby.
• Chickens of the caves.

Middling bits:

• Baxter is comparatively under-represented. Admittedly, he's kinda a one-note joke, but still.
• The RV scene from the trailers is funny, but CGI doesn't work for slapstick as well as stunts do.
• Burgundy's romance Meagan Good, which badly overstays its welcome. It starts off funny, but a dinner with her folks when Burgundy tries to talk all Jive Turkey is extremely weak. Cringe Comedy only works if it is actually funny.
• One can't help but wonder if my tolerance for it wouldn't be a lot lower were it not an Anchorman film.

Worst bits:

• A superfluous and annoying Australian character, who shares antagonist role with another character and isn't sure if he's a parody of Rupert Murdoch or Ted Turner or just some unfunny gremlin created ex nihilo.
• The film sets up villains and then drops them.
• Ending Fatigue to a huge degree. A repeat of the news-anchors battle from number one feels forced and not worth the time it takes in terms of gag-payoff. Bilbo took less time to sail to Valinor than Anchorman 2 takes to end.
• A painfully unfunny "British gentlemen" parody of the BBC.
• The ending is preachy as fuck. Yeah, sure modern American TV "news" is nothing of the sort. I do not want Ron fuckin' Burgundy to remind me of it.

Conclusion or TL;DR:

It's a worthy successor...provided it is the only successor. I think the Anchorman turkey has been picked clean. Great job, worth the ticket price, but not more than the sum of its parts in the way the original was.

8.5/10, to Anchorman's perfect 10.

edited 23rd Dec '13 2:20:54 AM by Achaemenid

Well, wasn't this sequel actually the third film in the series? What with them doing a straight to video installment out of retakes and alternate versions of takes and bloopers from the first one?

The battle between news anchors cracked me the hell up. I agree though the ending was somewhat fatigued.

All in all, I agree with reviewers that film is better than first.

I liked it almost as much as the first, but like others have said, it throws a lot of stuff out there and some of it ends up being unfunny I was particularly disappointed in the cameos from Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. But it had me roaring for most of the movie.

The bat-chicken conversation was perfect.

I watched this film today and I loved it. Sure it felt slow at times but I enjoyed the hell out of it. Almost every scene got me laughing or cracking a chuckle.

But that ending was the best with all those random and hilarious cameos Not to mention a minotaur, Harrison Ford as a were-hyena, the ghost of Stonewall Jackson, mind powers, the future gun. That battle was f*cking insane and I loved every minute of it. If I had only one complaint is that I wish Kanye West didn't cameo. I don't particularly like him and he certainly doesn't deserve to be in anything as good as this. But other than that it was great

That's interesting. I certainly appreciated the cameos, but - imho - the whole battle felt forced - and I think I know why. In Anchorman, part of the charm was the contrast between the bizarre and narcissistic male anchors and the comparative professionalism of everyone else - Harkin, Veronica, etc. Whilst in the remake, it's more of a bizarro world, where battles between anchors, in downtown NY no less, are seemingly a regular fixture.

It felt out of place.

@JR Pictures

Harrison Ford was in the film?

Totally missed that. 0_o

Seriously? Because he wasn't just a cameo, he was pretty much a full And Starring. He was the boss who promoted Veronica and fired Ron.

I'm not all that good at recognizing faces sometimes.

I suppose I understand that. In Tropic Thunder, it took me until about halfway through the movie to realize that Les Grossman was Tom Cruise. He was wearing a fat suit, but still.