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Anchorman

Director:
dam McKay

Cast:
Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Steve Carell, Kevin Corrigan, Chuck D

MPAA Rating:   PG-13 for sexual humor, language and comic violence.

Review:

Feminism has raised it’s ugly head again!...or not. Screenwriters Will Ferrell, Adam McKay have brought us a twisted tribute to sexual harassment in the form of a slapstick comedy about the coming of the women’s movement in the 1970s.

Ron Burgundy(Ferrell) has it all. For the past twelve years, he’s been attending the same party when not working as the number one local news anchor in the San Diego area. He and his sidekicks Brian Fantana(Paul Rudd), Brick Tamland(Steve Carell) and Champ Kind( David Koechner), have the world at their feet. That is until their boss(Fred Willard) decides that for the sake of diversity, he’s going to hire a woman reporter to punch up the station’s image.

What follows, as was said before, is a loving homage to sexual harassment, where comely journalist Veronica Corningstone(Christina Applegate) is subjected to what obviously be grounds for a lawsuit. But they couldn’t do that in the ‘70s so we have a romance, and the fall of Ron Burgundy.

It’s to be expected. We’ve got dozens of Saturday Night Live alumni wandering the fringes of this film and everyone who’s of the male gender acts as if they’re somewhere between five and eight. The rumble scene is particularly effective in this regard. There’s enough silliness in here to keep one giggling for the full hour and a half. That’s what this sort of film is for, after all.

It’s worth a matinee for sure.

Eric Lurio