Anchorman 2

I detest seeing comedies in theatres because you will always have some idiots laughing WAY too loud, for WAY too long, and this was of course the case for when I saw Anchorman 2. Overcoming all that, I still had a really good time because this movie is funny. It's funny because it has a great cast. They fall in love with REALLY pushing funny situations as far as possible. It's completely ridiculous, but it's often funny. SPOILER EXAMPLE: Will Ferrell helps raise a shark. There are several things that have no business being there, but it's often funny, so I'll allow it. The film starts out joining Ron and Veronica Corningstone as evening news anchors in New York. Harrison Ford is stepping down as THE nightly news anchor (great cameo) and he chooses Veronica for the job and fires Ron on the spot. Things go sideways for Ron, but before rock-bottom hits there is a 24 hour news network forming and they want Ron to anchor on it. Ron gathers the old gang, hilarity ensues, they get to New York. The jokes are everywhere and come constantly. They have a black women as News Director, so that's cheap laughs. Brick and Kristen Wiig's character are as dumb as possible and fall in love, so there's more cheap laughs. Paul Rudd is back, automatic cheap laughs. The sum of the cheap laughs are enough to carry the film through a weak plot. They do an excellent job of making fun of the state of our current cable news networks, so that's nice. I certainly don't want to ruin any of the laughs, but I'm sure there's just miles of film that's amazing we will never get to see. The filming style is to have a script, but then allow the characters to just adlib the scene a bunch of different ways to see what they like best. We don't get to see Ron talking about blowing a huge load saying "It was like shooting a shotgun into a bucket of white paint", or "That was like the eruption of Krakatoa, only with ejaculate". I read that in Rolling Stone and I feel like we got robbed from a lot of fun with this movie being PG-13. We can only hope for an unrated release on blu-ray later, but who knows. Bottom Line: 7.6 out of 10. It's certainly worth watching, but it will be better to watch it at home without random asshole laughing like he's being tortured via electroshock.