Will Farrell has one persona who he performs very very well: the guy who looks normal but really isn’t, Will played him “Elf”, in “Anchorman” and in “Tallegada Nights’ and now again in the “Anchorman” sequel where Will and his San Diego news mates get fired when he loses his job to his wife and doesn’t take it well.
Will (Ron Burgundy) along with ), weather man Brick Tamland (Steve Carell), man on the street Brian Fantana (Paul Rudd) and sports guy Champ Kind (David Koechner), leave for new York City where they join nascent cable news network GNN and singlehandedly put the network on the map with feelgood news that wipes out his wife Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate) exclusive interview with Yassir Arafat.
Things go from bad to worse with one outrageous plot twist after another till anything resembling reality is completely forsaken in an uproarious showdown with other news teams which will in fact lead to death and dismemberment along with the ghost of Stonewall Jackson (the History channel).
None of this is worth taking very seriously but when Ron dates his black middle class boss and treats her family as though they were hoodrats, you might cringe and laugh as he gets his face punched in.
This is parody not satire, placing it in the past loosens it up to be a politically incorrect as hell and while Will always manages to end up a sweetheart, he really isn’t normal at all.
Don’t take it to serious and this will prove itself the rare sequel that is much better than the origina. Guest cameo? Kanye West or Harrison Ford!
Grade: B+