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03/09/05
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
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Reviews Counted:186
Fresh:120
Rotten:66
Average Rating:6.2/10
Consensus: It's a one-joke premise, but the movie is amiably dumb, and there are scenes of inspired goofiness.
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Genre: Comedies
US Box Office: $84,136,909
Synopsis: Will Ferrell ("Elf," "Old School") stars as Ron Burgundy, the top-rated anchorman in San Diego in the ‘70s. When feminism marches into the newsroom in the form of ambitious newswoman Veronica... [More]
Starring: Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Paul Rudd, David Koechner
Director: Adam McKay
Reviews for Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
1 - 20 (sorted by rotten rating; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticFans of the Todd Phillips school of comedy are going to be divided on this one -- there's real potential here and a great premise but had it been a little cleverer it could've been so much more.
03/14/05
Top CriticSome of the material works, some doesn't.
10/18/08
Top CriticNo review available.
10/25/04
Top Criticso many ways to go with something witty, sharp, or just plain fun . . .the filmmakers instead went with pointless, dull, obvious, and sophomoric
07/08/04
For every gag that works, there's one that doesn't, and the story is too thin to keep us engaged otherwise.
07/08/04
You're just left wishing that Tina Fey had lent a helping hand -- or that they'd wheeled in some old hands from the real '70s newsroom gender comedy, The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
07/09/04
Will Ferrell shows that even he is not immune to looking bad when faced with bad material, even if it's his own. Possibly one of the worst directed films of the year.
07/07/04
Burgundy is dim, vain and unrepentantly horny, but there is something so limited about him that he seems more pitiable than funny.
07/08/04
Overly broad humor with little on its mind.
07/09/04
You go ... hoping for good, dumb fun. Well, one out of three ain't bad. But that doesn't exactly make Anchorman good, either.
07/09/04
News Flash - it's not that funny!
07/09/04
Occasionally, it entertains us for three minutes or so, but it lurches from one skitlike scene to another, charting out like this: funny, not funny, not funny, funny, not, not, not, funny, not, funny, not, not.
07/09/04
Partway through the uneven string of skits that comprises Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, the film loses its mind completely.
07/08/04
The laughs arrive on stale crackers of the easy, breezy and familiar.
07/09/04
Dumb, dumber, dumberest!
07/08/04
It's one of those movies where every good joke is in the trailer, which was a hilarious two-minute spot that promised so much more than this sloppy, lazy effort manages to deliver.
07/09/04
Half inspired and half a moronic exercise in brain stagnation.
07/09/04
The desperate and frantic slapstick of Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy is closer to hysteria than hysterical.
07/09/04
A marginal entertainment with some greatly funny scenes definitely worth seeing, but is the rest of the movie worth wading through to get to them? Probably not.
07/07/04
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