Empire Magazine
Certainly the silliest comedy of the year, but mainly in a good way. Not quite as inspired as Stiller's Dodgeball, but if it were any more manic you'd have to put it on Ritalin.
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Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
"I'm Ron Burgundy?"... Judd Apatow-produced comedy following Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) as San Diego's top rating news anchor in the male dominated world of 1970's broadcasting. But all that changes when a new female co-presenter (Christina Applegate) arrives, threatening Ron's career and manhood.
Also stars Steve Carell ("I love lamp") and Paul Rudd ("Why don't you sit this next one out, stop talking for a while").
This is director Adam McKay's first film. His collaborations with Will Ferrell continued with Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Step Brothers and The Other Guys.
200494 minsUSA
Comedy
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy / Reviews
Herald Sun
Will Ferrell is superb as Ron Burgundy, an egocentric legend of TV's nightly news who could only have existed in the 1970s.
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Premiere Magazine
...consistently ridiculous and hysterical, despite its messy mid-movie abandonment of the subject it sets out to parody.
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Los Angeles Times
What takes the whole thing pleasurably over the top, turning a goof into a total gas, is the film's pitch-perfect absurdist comedy and warmth.
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The New York Times
It is not as maniacally uninhibited as Old School or as dementedly lovable as Elf, but its cheerful dumbness is hard to resist.
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USA Today
That he can make his anchorman chauvinistic, deluded and ridiculous but still manage to give him some humanity is testimony to Ferrell's comic talents.
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Variety
Ferrell has seized on a clever concept rife with possibilities -- namely, women breaking the glass ceiling in male-dominated TV news during the '70s -- and smartly surrounded himself with a topnotch cast.
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