Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)

A total must watch!!!!! Perfect, easy, really funny !!!!

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013) is a movie starring Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, and Paul Rudd. With the 1970s behind him, San Diego's top-rated newsman, Ron Burgundy, returns to take New York City's first twenty-four-hour news channel by storm. Anchorman 2 is the sequel to the 2004 suprise that showed that Will Ferrell can actually be funny, one again the entire cast of the original reprises their roles and their all very very good in each specific thing that they do. As for the cameos? i loved Jim Carrey's and especially Harrison Ford's which was early on in the film. Definitely one of those rare cases where the sequel is just as good as the original movie was.

With "Anchorman" reaching cult status, fans have been demanding a sequel. Now they got one...over a decade later.So was it worth it?Fans of the original will enjoy it, with all the first movie's jokes reused (including another epic, cameo-filled news team battle). The characters are still the same: Ron's a chauvinistic idiot (if anything, he's even dumber in the sequel), Brian's still obsessed with sex, Champ is a dumb racist with an unhealthy fascination for Ron and Brick as a delightfully dense as before (even turning up to his own funeral). Kristen Wiig starts as Brick's equally empty-headed girlfriend. They're a scarily perfect couple.The sequel sees the team tackle the burgeoning 24-hour news cycle, using car chases and animal puff pieces to get big ratings. While you don't expect "Anchorman" to make biting political commentary, it does foreshadow the sensationalism of 24-hour news and even mainstream new bulletins, with attention-grabbing 'news' instead of real stories.While it lacks the original's iconic and endlessly quotable jokes, "Anchorman 2" works as pure fan service, giving people more of what they want. The tagline could well be 'The Sequel You Wanted is Finally Here. Enjoy."

Adam McKay waited almost a decade to direct a sequel to his 2004 hit "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy". At that time, the first opus was already a comedy classic about an iconic character, played by Will Ferrell. The result is that the two films are so distant in time that calling "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues" a sequel doesn't do justice to the film's quality, it's more of a, as the title indicates, a continuation, and at many levels, an improvement. Sequels rarely surpass the originals, but as far as hilarity goes, I think my laugh-o-meter got higher with this one.We're in the dawn of the 80's, National newscaster Ron Burgundy is married with Veronica Corningstone, they have a six-year old child and they're co-anchors for a prestigious New York TV channel. The film opens with a hilarious sequence of vocal warm-ups setting the tone of the movie (and you can see Christina Applegate surrendering to a little smile when Ferrell is warming up). Everything is going fine until they're called by their boss, the nightly news anchor, a tired and oddly scary Harrison Ford. He retires and makes Veronica his successor. She steals her husbands' thunder, but Ron quickly realizes he didn't have any thunder in the first place. A series of sloppy news mistakes makes you wonder why he wasn't fired earlier.Ron goes berserk, leaves Veronica out of hurt pride, gives a poignant fatherly speech to his son, telling him to lower his ambitions, and goes back to the East Coast where he works in an aquatic park. This is the lowest point for Ron, where he's such a failure, he even fails to commit suicide, and rightfully so, as it's the moment Freddie Shapp (Dylan Baker) makes his entrance and proposes a new job for Ron, something that will revolutionize the information, even more groundbreaking than having a woman presenting the news. The revolution is 24-hour information and the reaction of Ron proves that if he can read a prompter, he can't read much from the future.Ron hires back his news team, and then the film takes off for one hour of constant hilarity, satisfying each possible taste in humor. In the offensive and politically incorrect side, you have a suspicious fried chicken restaurant owned by Champ Kind, played by David Koechner, a place not admitted to any religious obedience, and where he uses baseball bats for complaining clients and bats bats for the food, as you can't really make profit with chicken. Kind is followed by Brian Fentana (Paul Rudd) who became a cat photographer, and I won't spoil the gag involving Brick Tamland, and certainly not reveal the scenes that comes after, which is one of the most hilarious moments ever, and I mean belly-laugh nearly-choking level, so great that any little flaw is immediately redeemed.Like the original film, this one contains efficient sight gags, absurd and raunchy offensive humor (after misogyny, race will be the new touchy issue with the boss being a Black woman, played by Meagan Good) but without the satire; "Anchorman 2" would've been a series of disjointed gags only working on an episodic structure. What is fascinating with Ron is that the guy is so wrapped up in his own ego, so eager to make a great impression at the right time that he makes the craziest decision regarding 24-hour information, like giving viewers what they like to hear (not what they hear) and starting the news with a random car chase. This sounds crazy, but he literally paves the way to sensationalist and attention-grabbing news, that became even more relevant today, at a time where the flow of information is so rapid, nothing interests more than what is happening now.Ron also plays on patriotism and goes to the craziest extents as wishing not just a good night, but a "good American night", an operator is wondering what's wrong with him, his colleague asks him what's wrong with saying USA is great. This brief exchange is something that could have been featured in a film like "Network" if it was set after September 11. And the only comedic aspect is that Ron's ideas are only the results of brainstorming that come up with other crazy ideas such as in the as smoking crack in live. In a way, Ron is a character who involuntarily pioneers the world of TV, which says a lot about the roots of American media. Burgundy is half Forrest Gump, half Howard Beale and as far as ego and intelligence and American pride go, half Otto West. And "Anchorman 2" plays in so many levels that I can't think of any audience being truly disappointed by the film.How can something be that funny, some skeptical minds will ask. Just watch the film and very soon, you'll have the one scene that kills you, that makes you laugh and hard and cry, and makes your belly hurt after so many laughs. And a few comedic films achieve these kinds of laughs, and if you feel low or depressed, well, it's the perfect moment to see the film, it works better than any medic. The film culminates with a great reference to the previous arena-like fight, with the greatest ratio of cameos per minute, I say that about the first one, but I guess I had to wait till the second. And just for the delight of having Harrison Ford turning into a werewolf and O'Reilly playing a ghost, and so many other bits I won't spoil, something struck me about "Anchorman 2".In fact, for all the offensive, absurd, visual and satirical humor, the movie reminded me of an animated series that works on the same levels: "South Park". Well, Ron Burgundy is humor-wise, the closest movie to "South Park" or "Team America" tone-wise, and I mean that as a compliment.