It's a cute, silly, likable movie without much weight or intensity, but it's also pretty funny.
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07/08/04
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
161 - 180 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
It solidifies Ferrell's place alongside Jim Carrey, Jack Black and, when called on, Johnny Depp, as our best comic actors.
07/08/04
it seems like Ferrell can take just about any idea, however threadbare, and make it funny.
07/08/04
Even though it feels the need to lapse into juvenile clowning around every once in awhile, Anchorman is still gonna make you laugh--hard.
07/08/04
Instantly quotable and destined for classic comedic status.
07/08/04
...Burgundy barely qualifies as a character. Better to think of him as a living one-liner, albeit a very funny one.
07/08/04
so 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
It's the kind of movie that makes you laugh despite yourself, its inconsistent dummheit redeemed by a try-anything approach that somewhat transcends the usual aura of a TV sketch stretched to feature length.
07/08/04
Good dumb fun can be lowbrow without being lazy, but bite-sized episodes of creative lunacy are not enough to qualify Anchorman as the kind of dumb worth paying to see.
07/08/04
The results may not be coherent, or even consistent, but they are often hilarious.
07/07/04
"Anchorman" is so deft and suave at selling us on its preposterousness that we give in, and laugh at the sheer gall of it all.
07/07/04
the movie succeeds because there are so many goofy little moments that rise up out of nowhere and catch you off guard.
07/07/04
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
For a comedy set during the formative era of happy-talk news, Anchorman doesn't do enough to tweak the on-camera phoniness of dum-dum local journalism.
07/07/04
This is one of the funniest movies of the year...
07/07/04
Whether he's fighting Kodiak bears or throwing burritos at bikers, Ron Burgundy is the perfect outlet for Will's unique brand of sincere witticism.
07/07/04
Anchorman is equally hilarious, appalling and intelligent, but couldn't the movie have a little more of the intelligent and hilarious?
07/07/04
Most of the comic sequences and satirical barbs in this comedy seem to have been recycled from the long ago past.
07/07/04
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
Will Ferrell’s commitment to sophomoric comedy is encroaching on religious zeal: “Anchorman” is Ferrell at his best.
07/06/04
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Ahead of the release of the comedy-adventure Land of the Lost -- a big-screen adaptation of Sid and Marty Kroft's psychedelic TV series from the '70s -- Rotten Tomatoes got the... More...
May 27, 2009:
Will Ferrell Talks Anchorman Sequel 
Hope you've been staying classy, San Diego -- Will Ferrell says discussions for an "Anchorman" sequel are taking place. More...
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June 06, 2008:
Steve Carell Would Totally Make Anchorman 2
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