Last week I finally saw Anchorman 2. Now, let me point out that I’m not normally a huge fan of stupid humor. I do however, for some reason, very much enjoy the Anchorman movies. Or I just really love the cast. I mean, seriously, talk about a dream cast. This movie was drowning in hilarious celebrities.
The plot was of course, stupid and weird, but I mean, that’s kind of why you go to see this kind of movie. You go to seem something stupid and weird that will take your mind of the stressful and awful things going on in your life. That’s the point of comedy.
Ron Burgundy is enraged that he gets fired while his wife Veronica Corningstone get’s a promotion to be the lead anchorwoman. Of course, being the man he is, Burgundy makes his wife choose between himself and the job, so naturally, she picks the job. Being alone and no longer an anchor, Burgundy finds himself working at Sea World, in which, he gets fired from as well.
Freddie Schapp, an executive from GNN, the world’s first 24 hour news channel, offers Burgundy a once in a lifetime opportunity to get back on the air. After declaring the idea of a 24 hour news station, ridiculous, Burgundy decided to reunite his old team and head out to New York. Even though Champ was selling bats as fried chicken, Brick was dead, and Brian had become an established cat photographer, they left that all behind and headed up to New York with Burgundy.
Once in New York, the team finds out that they were hired for the graveyard shift, and how essentially, no one would be watching. However, with getting into a fight with the prime time guy, Jack Lime, Burgundy makes a bet in which if the graveyard shift didn’t get more viewers then prime time, he and his team would move back to San Diego. If they won, Jack Lime would have to change his name to Jack Lame.
While in real life, we know this is impossible, because even if his presentation of the news was pure gold, most people would be asleep, simply unable to see his perfection. For the sake of film reasons though, Burgundy and his team win the bet and therefor get moved to the prime time slot, and Jack Lime became Jack Lame. In this success, everything starts to really well for Burgundy. The audience loves him and he starts a romance with his young and very pretty boss. So, what could go wrong?
While ice skating for some event, Jack Lame decided to throw a cord out onto the ice, one that I’m guessing he hoped Burgundy would trip and fall over. Burgundy, however, does more than that. He falls so hard he goes blind, costing him his career, his hot young girlfriend, and his dignity. Naturally this would be the time in which he reconnect with Veronica Corningstone and his son, as well as become an excellent artist and shark owner.
Fortunately, in today’s day in age, there was a procedure in which to fix his blindness. With his sight in tact, nothing else could hold him back from becoming the anchorman he was born to be. The question is, would his career take the place of his new found relationship with his family? They answer is yes, and Burgundy chose his family over his career, fighting all sorts of news teams on his way (best part of the movie).
The story has a happy ending and left me in a great mood. I would definitely recommend seeing this.
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