Am I the only one who liked this better than the first?
The first one always rubbed me the wrong way, I maybe laughed 3 times. This one though, I probably laughed 3 times in the first 15 minutes!
The bat restaurant killed me!
There's a hole in the world. Feels like we ought to have known. - Spike
You're either joking, insane or severely intoxicated. Maybe a combination of the three, this was THE stupidest movie I ever saw and it was painful to sit thru. I couldn't even finish it because it was embarrassing to watch. The first was clever with smart writing and intelligent humor, the sequel was an insult to the first it was random, ridiculous and crude. They carried unfunny jokes and bits WAAAAAY too far that weren't funny to begin with and the story had zero continuity. It was a collection of stupid and ridiculous jokes that made no sense, if you're gonna be stupid and ridiculous could you at least TRY to frame it as a story with a point? I'm insulted that the creators thought I would enjoy this, after 20 mins I felt like I was watching really bad improv comedy. No sense, no integrity, no story, no realistic connections just dumb *beep* wall to wall scene after scene
shareOk, the first one was awesome - but it wasn't so much good writing - it was good timing and good direction. It had a pace, and it was also inventing itself, whereas sequels always have a problem of becoming caricatures of themselves.
One thing to realize too, is Anchorman actually had good source material that it was carving from - essentially Network and Broadcast News (The cut storyline used for Wake Up being an almost direct spoof of the militant storyline from Network). This time, they were simply working with their first film as source material to carve from. (On a side note, it's a lot like Kingpin, the Farrelly's best - but because it was essentially already written as the Hustler and Color of Money)
A1 was just a long SNL skit. One great character and a few good laughs.
A2 was an actual movie. They put more effort into it. Not all of it worked, to say the least, but yes it was better overall.
Yes, I agree. this one struck me as being funnier, and also as containing more incisive satire (sending up the cable news culture) than the first. Not that either movie is a masterpiece. they are both good dumb fun.
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