Just had to switch it off.....

I respect your opinion. No one's forcing you to like the movie, so I'll try to answer your question to my best ability.
To me, it was a good-- actually, great movie because it made me laugh with its silly and goofy remarks. People say they didn't enjoy Will Ferrell in this movie, I thought he was OK, but that's not really a reason to hate this movie.. I don't know what else to say other than it made me laugh at nearly ever moment. Maybe if you'd watch it by yourself, to get the personal experience. It makes a big difference in your opinion while watching it alone.. c:

"To die would be an awfully big adventure..." ~Peter Pan

I have to agree as well. I've tried to watch it two times now but I can't make it past a half-hour or so. It's just not funny. Low-brow jokes (the squirrel? come on now!), screaming for no reason, "wacky" characters I feel nothing for... it just doesn't do it for me.

I just tried watching it and couldn't get through it either. I'm assuming the film was written on the fly or highly improved because it seemed like a series of skits strung together.

Watching (most of) the film did lead me to understand where all those frat boys were getting their jokes/quotes from in university!

Yeah, I agree with you man, this movie sucks. The reason for why it got high rating is pretty simple, massive population have low level of intelligence and that's why they find this kind of movie funny. Population is composed by few intelligent people, it always were like that and it always will be. Although humans likes to claim they are rational most are not, they have beliefs based in no evidence that supports it and act in not a rational way at all. They just tend to go with the crowd, what the crowd likes is what they will like also. They can't think by themselves. So don't feel weird for not enjoying s#its like this one, you probably belong to a minority that have a inteligence above the average. I bet most of the people that enjoyed this movie also enjoyed (or would enjoy) movies like Shaun of the Dead, The Evil Dead and other movies that have forced humor that try to be funny (and for most people they are), but just try because in fact they are far away from achieving that. So don't worry about ratings given by the crowd, you may not identify yourself with the crowd opinion (in many subjects).

This pos is what the average American movie viewer finds humorous today? I'll take The Three Stooges, The Little Rascals, and Amos 'n Andy shorts any day over this crap.

How it got such a high rating is beyond me.....

It's good becuase the lines are just so very quoteable. I didn't like the movie the first time I saw it, had the same reaction you did. But I watched it again years later at a friends place and thought it was hilarious.

Totally agree, this was a horrible comedy, I laughed maybe twice, but most of the time I just wished I was watching another movie..

Anyway maybe Anchorman 2 is better?
If it's the same style of comedy as this one, then I doubt it.