Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

2004

Action / Comedy

140
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 66% · 202 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 86% · 250K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 405305 405.3K

1970s journalism sexism ladder rivalry panda

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Plot summary

It's the 1970s and San Diego anchorman Ron Burgundy is the top dog in local TV, but that's all about to change when ambitious reporter Veronica Corningstone arrives as a new employee at his station.

Director

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Adam McKay

Top cast

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Jack Black as Motorcyclist
Ben Stiller Photo
Ben Stiller as Arturo Mendes
Paul Rudd Photo
Paul Rudd as Brian Fantana
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Kent Shocknek as Network Reporter
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by TheFilmCritics.org 5 / 10

There is a fine line between gloriously stupid

There is a fine line between gloriously stupid and simply stupid, and Anchorman spends a lot of time wandering around on the wrong side of it. The film follows San Diego newsman Ron Burgundy, a preening relic of macho television who suddenly finds his kingdom threatened by the arrival of an ambitious female reporter. It is a premise with plenty of comic potential, but the movie rarely knows when to stop pushing the joke. Will Ferrell is undeniably committed to the character. His performance has a cartoonish confidence that occasionally produces a genuinely funny moment, while the absurd supporting cast gives the newsroom an appropriately bizarre atmosphere. The movie has a loose, anything-goes quality that can be charming when the silliness clicks. Unfortunately, those moments are far less frequent than the film seems to believe. The biggest problem is that it simply isn’t very funny. Anchorman throws joke after joke at the screen, but volume isn’t the same thing as quality. Some gags land through sheer ridiculousness, while others feel like sketches that were stretched until they stopped being funny. The movie’s stupidity could have been its greatest asset if it had been paired with sharper writing; instead, too much of it feels like randomness being mistaken for wit. The film wants Ron’s sexism to be part of the joke, but it keeps returning to the same material until the joke becomes the movie itself. What might have worked as occasional satire of insecure, chauvinistic men instead starts to feel like the entire punchline is simply, “Women are stupid.” The misogyny overstays its welcome so badly that it becomes difficult to laugh at the characters rather than wonder why the film is still making the same point. There is also a strange missed opportunity in the rivalry between Ron and Veronica. The premise could have produced a much sharper satire about changing workplace attitudes and male insecurity, but the movie often settles for cartoonish insults and juvenile behavior. Christina Applegate brings enough intelligence and poise to make Veronica compelling, yet the script frequently treats her as a target rather than giving her the material she deserves. Anchorman has developed a reputation as a comedy classic, and there is certainly a cultish energy to its cast and absurdist style. But watching it now, the laughs are inconsistent and the central joke has aged particularly poorly. There are flashes of inspired stupidity here, but not enough to overcome a movie that mistakes repetition for escalation. At its best, it is gleefully ridiculous; at its worst, it is just ridiculous. 5/10.
Reviewed by Andre Gonzales 8 / 10

Super funny. Love this movie. One of my

Super funny. Love this movie. One of my favorite movies.
Reviewed by AlsExGal 8 / 10

Quite good for its genre...

...that genre being "manly men behaving stupidly". Its charm is in the fact that it is not pretending to be anything other than what it is - it does not try to get you to do anything other than laugh. The film is also responsible for giving Steve Carell his breakthrough role as Brick, the news weatherman who can hardly assemble a coherent sentence.The film centers around Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell), a local news anchorman in San Diego at an unspecified time. From the fashions and music, it could be anytime between 1968 and 1975. Ron is basically a lecherous yet likable leisure suit Larry who is mainly a face - he has no real journalistic talents or instincts. He simply reads the news that others report. The trouble begins when the station manager hires a new newswoman, Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate) who at first is given only fluff pieces to do. The big step forward for Veronica is that she is working as a reporter at all. This was considered women's lib in 1970 - just being admitted to the club. This did not exempt you from all kinds of hazing and sexual harassment, which was considered the price of admission. A romance develops between Ron and Veronica that ends quite abruptly when Ron is late to the set and Veronica goes on in his place. She does so well that she and Ron become co-anchors and the war begins - Veronica against every other man in the newsroom, all who feel threatened by a woman anchoring the news. However, Veronica plays it smart and takes advantage of the fact that Ron will say anything that comes across the teleprompter without even thinking about it.Normally I don't like these kinds of films at all, but for some reason this one just gets funnier every time I watch it. Especially funny is the conclusion, with actual investigative reporter Bill Kurtis discussing the destinies of everyone at the station.
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