It was a long wait for this one to come out! Anchorman 2 continues the absurdity of the Ron Burgundy world. It’s now 1980 and after Ron is shown the door in favor of his wife getting the huge promotion on the nightly prime time news desk, Ron flips out and gets the band back together when given the chance to start GNN, the first 24 hour news channel.

The truth of how terrible news media has become is sandwiched between the weirdest and wackiest set ups a human being could think of. Anchorman 2 is all over the place with it’s jokes. With so much crazy going on (Chicken of the Cave, fighting sharks, blindness, douchbaggery in general) it’s often the more subtle lines that got the biggest laughs. While the four are all back (Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, David Koechner) and given their fair shake of laughs, Carrell’s Brick Tamland steals just about every scene he’s in. He totally commits to everything, something not everyone can do.

I do think that the movie is too long though. They made another news team fight scene that should have been cut. It goes on forever and was done much better in the first movie. A pointless retread that I’m sure Mike Myers wish he thought of.

Good times, a fun movie to see with a group of people.