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Brian K. Vaughan may have started it in his open letter, but others ran with it like the anchorman in a baton relay race at the Olympics.

The targets might not be familiar to those who regularly quote Ferrell / McKay comedies like Anchorman and Step Brothers.

There is certainly enough here to warrant a second screening and like Anchorman, the laughs may increase with each viewing.

This is part of the freewheeling charm that made McKay such an exciting voice in comic filmmaking over the last 10 years — he's collaborated with Will Ferrell on films like Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Step Brothers, and The Other Guys, all of which contained similar mad flourishes.

This is McKay's first dramatic turn after directing broad comedies like Anchorman, and The Other Guys, and he handles the change well, infusing the film with much needed levity when needed.

I didn't like Anchorman either (hugs).

McKay (Will Ferrell's most reliable partner, on pictures like Anchorman and Talladega Nights) and Apatow share an in - vogue style of partly improvised takes that makes many a scene jewels of uproarious, escalating comic brilliance.

Director Adam McKay is typically associated with uproarious absurd comedies like ANCHORMAN: THE LEGEND OF RON BURGUNDY, STEP BROTHERS and TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY.

Super Troopers 2 does a middling job addressing these concerns, and while there are a few laughs sprinkled throughout, it's far below the level of the first movie — like Anchorman 2, while even including an astonishing failure of an opening sequence that seems lifted almost directly from that movie.

It seems safe to say that, despite their prominent front cover credit for home video, fellow producers McKay and Will Ferrell, his creative partner, were probably not deeply involved in the creation of this film, which bears little resemblance to their high - profile signature comedies (like Anchorman and Step Brothers).

A curiously joyless movie that tries to channel the giddy amorality of Dr. Strangelove but forgets to add jokes or dramatic stakes, War Dogs is a major whiff from Hangover trilogy director Todd Phillips, who won't be graduating to serious material like Anchorman's Adam McKay did with The Big Short.

And then, on top of that, I am no particular Will Ferrell fan, as I am one of the few people in my circle of friends who did not like Anchorman (though I loved Elf and Stranger Than Fiction, which are admittedly atypical of his usual vulgar output).

I tend to skip nearly all Adam Sandler, The Judd Apatow Collective and Will Farrell comedies (Even the ones directed by Adam McKay) anyway, although occasionally I catch something like Anchorman or The Wedding Singer) or Superbad to see what I'm not missing.

Writer and director Adam McKay made an impressive jump from directing feature comedies like Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and Step Brothers to the real life The Big Short, even earning an Oscar nomination for Best Director and a win for Best Adapted Screenplay.

REVIEW: The only two things one need ask of a movie like ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES are, be funny, appeal to those who liked the first one.

Not exact matches

I had one with Saddam Hussein looking just like Ron Burgundy in Anchorman, and it said, «You stay classy Iraq.»

Adam McKay, better known for comedies like Step Brothers and Anchorman, will be keeping the director's chair warm.

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We lack defensive cover with the style of football we play and an Anchorman like Fernandinho / Kante / Matic would be a massive upgrade overall on the balance of the team.

Where would you like to see you Anchorman, at the edge of the box hoping to run behind defenders?

He is great player a good Athlete and a very good Anchorman he is an upgrade of Song he can get the Job done, and like has been said earlier he can also work well with Coquelin to form a very robust midfield against Stubborn teams

United signed defensive midfielder Ander Herrera from Athletic Bilbao earlier in the summer, and Van Gaal's revelation about where he would like to play Blind pretty much makes it clear who his two anchormen in midfield will be.

Frankfurt are impressing in the Bundesliga this season, and Rode has contributed to that, but you wonder if Arsenal want to sign an anchorman like him to presumably replace Mikel Arteta, instead of an Etienne Capoue type, who makes a difference all over the pitch.

So there's a lot of like percentages in there, I go back to the anchorman quote, 60 % of the time, it works every time, a 100 % of the time.

How do you incorporate each decade's ethos into your look without appearing like you're auditioning to be an extra for Anchorman 3?

It doesn't have to be niche — it can be a kind of wine or a particular movie — but «For a great night in, I need a bottle of Margaux and Anchorman on DVD» is much more exciting than «I like watching films with a glass of red!»

«21 and Over» would have been better served going for pure comedy the whole time — like «Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy» successfully pulled off — and a script rewrite that took chances beyond «The Hangover» formula we've already seen twice now.

Anchorman: Acted like a schoolyard student trying to impress his cronies.

Not like the first Anchorman was.

Most of Anchorman 2 is utterly, indefensibly ridiculous, and like all reasonably ambitious comedies, it at times pushes the boundaries of good taste.

But like most sequels, ANCHORMAN 2 definitely lacks a bit of freshness.

Like any movie in the joke - a-minute game, ANCHORMAN 2's success is judged almost on a joke - to - joke basis.

I hope I'm not as disappointed in this like I was with Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.

Though plenty of the film's scenes possess an honed improv feel much like the extemporaneous riffing of Anchorman, they are also usually more focused — in terms of plotting, there's so little time to waste when the end is nigh.

Initially it looked like «Anchorman 2» was going to have life as a Broadway musical (though quite how anyone thought they were going to make a glitzy stage show about the cutthroat rough - and - tumble of television news and the sobering questions of journalistic ethics the original film raised is beyond us), but thankfully sanity prevailed and we get to revisit the Channel Four News team nearly one decade on, as they face the challenges of a new era with hope, integrity and, probably, scotch.

The 2008 housing market crash was no joke, which is why it might come as a surprise that «The Big Short» was directed by the same man responsible for goofball comedies like «Anchorman» and «Talladega Nights.»

Bottom Line: Looks like more «Anchorman» - style lunacy from the king of the genre.

One would think that the man who brought the smug Anchorman to life would be the perfect comic partner with Hart, site whose ebullient personality has stood out in hits like Think Like a Man and its seqlike Think Like a Man and its seqLike a Man and its sequel.

Adam Sandler and Will Ferrell, who brought funny movies like «Billy Madison» and «Anchorman» to new box office heights, are older - school performers in whose footsteps Hart and Johnson are following.

Committed to its own weird world, Anchorman never winks at its audience: It moves with Simpsons - like swiftness, doling out gag after gag, at least a few of which involve jazz flute and the hibernation habits of bears.

He is Superbad's Brick Tamland and personally I liked Brick, because the writers didn't realise how much of a goldmine he was, during the making of the original Anchorman.

After seeing him in comedies like The 40 - Year - Old Virgin, Anchorman, and This is 40, I would never have thought of him as a superhero, but he nailed it.

McKay continues, recalling, «We were going to do «Anchorman 2» as a Broadway musical first, for like six months and then go shoot the movie.

Carell, who also co-wrote the screenplay, makes a smash starring appearance here after giving us scene - stealing performances in previous efforts like Bruce Almighty and Anchorman.

Like a lot of films that have come to viewed as classics, Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy didn't make a lot of waves when it was released in July of 2004.

It's unfair to compare any Tina Fey film project to her all - time - great TV show 30 Rock; that's like comparing a perfectly amusing episode of Saturday Night Live to Anchorman.

Mocking»70s fashions is like shooting fish in a barrel; Anchorman never overdoes it, but rather tells it like it is (or was) and lets the results speak for themselves.

If you like your comedy served low - key but high - brow then dive for cover, because «Anchorman» is loud, totally ridiculous and more often than not it doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

Like Zoolander, Anchorman at least comes close to achieving the mad abandon of Zucker - Abrahams - Zucker (Airplane, The Naked Gun) or Mel Brooks's keen instincts for parody and lovably stupid crassness.

If you don't know his work, I strongly suggest you see a few of his flicks like: «Be Cool,» «Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy,» «Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story» and «Old School.»