This is quite possibly the stupidest movie I've ever seen, although I haven't seen Man with the Screaming Brain, yet.. Throughout history I have never shyed away from watching movies, even those that I know are supposed to be horrible. And if the critics don't like a movie, I'm defiantly seeing it. They rarely ever give good critiques, and movies like Gandhi win top awards. I even want to see Gigli just to see how horrible it really is.
Luckily a lot of people enjoy stupid movies. Anchorman has a vast contingency of fans that spent the movie rolling in the floor. And that is absolutely great. I'm not going to tell anyone that they are wrong for liking a movie, and the movie fans aren't stupid, stupid is just the genre. A lot of people didn't like Airplane! for the same reason and I thought it was great.
Anchorman is the story of a news.. umm. anchorman in a time when women were just coming into their own. By the clothes and hair it was set back in the late 70's or early 80's. A woman gets brought in to give the news some diversity. Ron falls in love with her and she with him, which only goes to complicate things.
The stupid parts? How about an animated sex scene? No, not an animated portrayal of sex, I mean a fantasy amusement park named Pleasure Land where cupids and unicorns abound and you make love on rainbows.
How about the street fight scene between the news teams of five televisions stations? The only rule is no messing with the face or hair. "Of course." The lead of the Spanish Channel News Team shouts "Policía!" and everyone scatters, with the music riffs in the background taken straight from West Side Story's rumble.
During the end credits they even played outtakes. FROM Smokey and the Bandit! Wha? Ha Ha. OK, that was funny.
The best way to summarize the movie was a line from the final outtake.
This is ridiculous.
