Posted on 01/10/2014 9:59:53 AM PST by pgkdan
uring the two very long hours of Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, I think I chuckled three times. Meanwhile, all around me were cracking up. They, obviously, were more in tune with the general audience responsible for (at the time of writing) the $100 million in box office receipts earned by this sequel to the equally dreadful Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004). Not that I’m not used to being in the minority in my view of popular movies, but I can’t help asking myself why so many people think this one, which is by the same creative team of Will Ferrell and Adam McKay that produced the original, is funny when I do not. I don’t think it can be because I lack a sense of humor, or that it has atrophied with age, since I do laugh at quite a lot of things. Scott Foundas, the critic for Variety, likens the new Anchorman to “Network as directed by Mel Brooks, and starring Gene Wilder,” thus comparing it to some movies that I do find funny. Does he, then, think they are funny in the same way as Anchorman 2?
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Will Ferrell is perhaps the most no talent bum in Hollywood. The mere fact that he’s made so much money verifies what we’ve feared for so long, viz. that the majority of Americans are idiots.
I thought Happy Gilmore was hilarious. Although maybe it was funny because of watching my friend who had just had his wisdom teeth removed try not to laugh. Everytime he started to laugh he’d try to stop and it would hurt so bad you’d see tears forming in the corner of his eyes, and yet he’d keep trying not to laugh, hilarious stuff heh.
I wish they’d put up Caddyshack on Netflix.
Idiocracy is another movie I wish they’d put on Netflix.
I loved the Naked Gun movies. They actually came from the black and white TV show called Dragnet I believe. That was hilarious too.
From that, I took that this movie was made for his buddies, and not the general public.
Definitely a stoner movie in which you need to know a lot about the actors past roles in other movies to get “the jokesâ€. Also the Rapture storyline might offend a lot of Christians. The theology is way off, very crude, but you could tell the actors reveled in the criticism of their peers’ past roles. It was Ok, Danny McBride’s A-hole demeanor carried the movie IMOHO. Then again I get a chuckle out of ‘East Bound and Down’.
LOL!
Steve was in Anchorman 1. He was the retarded weatherman.
My son explained the joke--you don't need to be very bright to do the weather in San Diego, because it's always the same.
I shouldn’t be surprised.
Why, then, are none of his Dodge commercials remotely funny?
Lol, in the Bob Barker scene, Happy was supposed to win, but Barker wouldn’t do the scene unless he won. Hilarious either way heh
I agree. Out of all those actors, there was one good movie.
The sad thing is, Sandler could do great work if he wanted to. Reign over Me is wonderful. And the one where he plays an aging comedian is pretty good, too. But his comedy is just vulgar, not witty. Big Daddy was pretty good, but unnecessarily juvenile at too many points. It got steadily worse after that movie.
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