Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)

Genre: Comedy/Drama

Starring: Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell, David Koechner, Vince Vaughn

News reporting has often been criticised as being living off sensationalism, not reporting the correct news and being more of marketing rather than news reporting. Taking a jibe at the 1970's style of news reporting, Anchorman is an all-out comedy filled with Will Ferrell and his idiotic humour. Ron Burgundy (Ferrell) is a celebrated TV news anchorman of a local San Diego news station. He is supported by Brian Fantana (Rudd), the stylish and sex-hungry field reporter, Brick Tamland (Carell), the weatherman with an IQ of 48, and Champion Kind (Koechner), the sports reporter. Their show garners the highest ratings in the city, they are loved by all of its citizens and the group seems unbreakable. Ron is eccentric, proud, dim-witted and is in love with himself. He loves the fact that everyone loves him, hopelessly enjoys all the attention he gets. Everything seems to change suddenly when Veronica Corningstone (Applegate) appears in his life. It was love at first sight, an emotion he has never experienced and fails to understand. A romance soon sparks between the duo but when Veronica steps in to fill Ron's seat when he is late for a broadcast, world war III erupts. Nobody, replaces Ron Burgundy ever. The movie is a laugh-out-loud slapstick piece of entertainment. It may not be extremely funny but is still quite entertaining. Many comedy movies can fall flat on their faces if it fails to arouse the audience but Anchorman gets it bang on. With an ensemble of famous comedy actors, you cant really go wrong with this movie.

Thumbs up: Good acting and humour

Thumbs down: Not the best comedy though

Rating: 6.9/10