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Anchorman - The Legend Of Ron Burgundy
2004
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Anchorman - The Legend Of Ron Burgundy
Positive Reviews
53
Negative reviews
6
Average Rating
3.4
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2.5
Occasionally, their shaggy, slapdash approach results in some riotously funny moments, anarchic and inspired, but more often it just feels like desper ..
Austin Chronicle
3.5
This takes 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.
Time Out
3.8
If the movie simply focused on making Ron and his team look ridiculous, it might grow tedious, because that would be such an easy thing to do.But it h ..
Rogerebert
4.5
The result is comedy that is impossible to anticipate, unstoppable belly laughs garnered purely from the shock of where Ferrell takes the joke next.
Cinema Blend
4.0
Critique: Humor is subjective.Ive stated this many times in the past and want to re iterate it here because much of what is funny to one person may no ..
JoBlo
1.5
I was expecting the early part of the film to be a warm up for the good stuff, but unfortunately from there (with a few exceptions), the film slides i ..
Screen Rant
2.8
The uneven comedy is sometimes amusing but too often its a bad joke prolonged.
Sover
3.0
This just in: Will Ferrell and director Adam McKays clever send up of the chauvinistic attitudes in the dark days before sexual harassment lawsuits ma ..
Tv Guide
4.4
Indeed, Anchorman smacks of a film that might have been much darker and more revealing than it already is.But it couldnt be funnier.
Combust Ible Celluloid
4.5
This is a masterpiece of comedy, ready to be watched, re watched, quoted and imitated for years to come.
Eric Ds Nider
3.0
Mark Halverson By This article was published on 07.15.04 Advertisement This goofy, energetic comedy flattens out at times but milks its 1970s setting ..
News Review
3.0
Not a classic, but funny and endearing enough to keep a smile on your face for 91 minutes.
Shadows On The Wall
3.0
In short, Anchorman is a bit of a disappointment, given the level of talent involved, but the quality of the gags that do work just about makes up for ..
View London
2.5
Burgundys frenzied courtship of Veronica provides some fairly staid but still funny comic bits.
Film Journal
2.5
Anchorman is not without its laughs.But in all honesty, most of those are tangential to what passes for the films plot, and they have little or nothin ..
Mountain X
3.8
President Donald Trump on Sunday acknowledged that the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between a Kremlin connected lawyer and his son was to collect informat ..
Star Tribune
4.0
Yes, its a far cry from Ferrells appealing turn as the gentle Elf in his last movie but almost as hilarious.What are the most important qualifications ..
Reel Talk Reviews
3.8
It is Ferrells ability to mine this gold between sympathy and silliness that has given him such a long and rich career.
Q Network
2.8
There are a few laughs, but Ron is a little too derivative hes Ted Baxter with a touch of Wild and Crazy Guy
Ew
4.0
McKay directs a very silly yet entertaining comedy that is actually funny and very well written.
Cinema Crazed
4.0
Youre not laughing at anchormen. Youre laughing at formula movie rituals blown sky high.
Slate
3.0
Not quite as inspired as Stillers Dodgeball, but if it were any more manic youd have to put it on Ritalin.
Empire
3.0
And Ferrell keeps hitting enough comic moments out of the park to keep it very watchable.
Common Sense Media
2.5
About half the time, all this struggling pays off.Though always sophomoric and sometimes bland, Anchorman is also intermittently funny, with just enou ..
Sf Gate
3.0
Stillers cameo is complemented by Luke Wilson and Jack Black (who raises the biggest laugh), and while the humour is occasionally crude, its refreshin ..
Bbc
3.8
The root of Will Ferrells humor lies in his ability to play insanely buffoonish characters with such straight faced conviction that he comes across as ..
Slant Magazine
3.5
You may not laugh as hard as you want to, but the movies premise has irresistible mileage: Will Ferrell as a 70s telegenic newsman stud.
Washington Post
4.0
But the reality of the movie can be summed up crisply: You will laugh.
Washington Post
3.0
If it were not for that benighted decade and its wayward pop culture, there might not be anything for movies like this one to make inoffensive fun of.
The New York Times
2.5
Is it about the cutthroat environment of television news stations, and Rons attempts to thwart Veronicas rise to the top.Is it a romance between Ron a ..
The Movie Boy
3.5
Though it might seem like a generic stereotype of most news anchors from the 70s, Ferrells manic energy takes it beyond parody and into a brilliant da ..
Bullz-Eye
3.2
The film is choppily paced and executed.One fantasy sequence inserted in lieu of a sex scene is a surprising idea that is well handled.
Reeling Reviews
2.5
The film is choppily paced and executed.One fantasy sequence inserted in lieu of a sex scene is a surprising idea that is well handled.
Reeling Reviews
3.5
But the barrage of very funny jokes makes up for any missteps, and by the end of the film youll likely only remember the good parts.
Las Vegas Weekly
3.8
Its hard to say whether Anchorman is the funniest movie of the year it has enough offbeat and gut busting moments to make it worth consideration in th ..
ReelViews
3.1
Even though it feels the need to lapse into juvenile clowning around every once in awhile, Anchorman is still gonna make you laugh hard.
Hollywood
2.2
Its essentially a one joke situation carried to a tedious length and Ferrell hardly runs away with his cliched part.
Seattle Pi
1.5
Misses a golden opportunity by crossing the line that separates parody from stupidity.
Tony Medley
3.8
Anchorman is an over the top joyride of a spoof, filled with off kilter nods and winks to the dry brand of comedy that Mel Brooks made famous.
Coles Mithey
2.5
But while McKay has a sharp eye for both broad chuckles and comedy minutia (the gung ho Texan sports reporter on Ferrells show looks vaguely ridiculou ..
Spliced Wire
3.8
(Its not surprising to note, then, that the film fares best in its newsroom based sequences, as such moments are rife with quotable, laugh out loud fu ..
Reel Film
1.9
Surrealism has its own dreamlike logic and a strong emotional content.
Movie Habit
2.0
We asked for the top 100 OHIP billers and the Star has won at the Court of Appeal In another chapter of a four year legal battle that began with a Sta ..
The Star
3.8
The goofy disclaimer at the start of Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, about the films supposed truthfulness, is by itself more clever and consid ..
Deseret News
3.5
Like a stand up comedy room, you take your chances.So does the audience.
Urban Cine File
5.0
Anyone expecting dry or subtle wit will want to stay away from this one, but anyone looking to laugh their ass off at the funniest movie of 2004, will ..
Three Movie Buffs
3.1
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Kansas City
4.3
Now I see it as a kind of minor classic, a goofy mixture of cruelty and innocence that may be the best Will Ferrell movie ever.
Ar Kansas Online
3.1
The opening credits echo the dull promise of stupid attempts at funny.
Ross Anthony
5.0
If that doesnt make sense, millions of quote happy Anchorman fans envy your first foray into 94 minutes of aggressively silly, insidiously hilarious c ..
The Filmy Ap
2.5
As always, Will Ferrell gives it his all, and Steve Carells every moment is hilarious.
Big Picture Big Sound
3.1
Anchorman is equally hilarious, appalling and intelligent, but couldnt the movie have a little more of the intelligent and hilarious
Waffle Movies
4.0
Anchorman is an absurd, stupid comedy thats a lot of fun and well worth checking out at the theater with friends.
ComingSoon
4.4
Director and co writer Adam McKay does a relatively good job at making this into an actual movie instead of a series of funny scenes.
Montreal Film Journal
3.0
You will be able to save yourself from getting disappointed of watching nothing but a lame movie.
Window To The Movies
3.5
The gags are largely physical, but display modest wit, and McKay wisely lays off the toilet humor.
Flip Side Archive
3.1
Will is a compelling self serving anchor and Christina Applegate is good in her role as the competitive newswoman.
Entertainment Spectrum
4.0
A film with nothing to say and hardly anything new to add to an already tired genre, this Stiller produced/starring vehicle felt content with making a ..
Films Nobs
4.0
Still, Anchorman works well enough as an impressionist ode to and send up of pre Gen X misogyny.
Web Archive
4.0
(It doesnt hurt that Ferrell takes overwrought grief to desperately funny new heights.)
Metro Weekly
4.0
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Film Force Ign
3.0
One is left with the hope that this in not the last film about Jesse and Celine.Linklater, Delpy and Hawke have created a masterpiece that gracefully ..
Kc Active
3.8
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Suburban Chicago News
2.5
Fans of Ferrells style of comedy will likely have a decent time here, if they crunch their popcorn loud enough to drown out the screenplay.
Seattle Times
2.5
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Nyc Film Critic
2.5
Theyve pinned their comedic hopes on the ludicrous setting and on Ferrells bankable appeal, but what emerges is only sporadically entertaining.
Style Weekly
3.1
Its all about the next guffaw, and even when it hits pay dirt, were left weary with the effort.
Wash Times
3.5
But it made the kisses onscreen, it made the kisses so real.It made it very awkward and great.
Romantic Movies About
1.3
The plot is driven by a romance rendered unconvincing by the insults spewed in the direction of the object of the heros affection.
Town Topics
3.0
Like most films created by veterans of Saturday Night Live, ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY is basically a single joke extended to 90 minutes.
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