Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
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Actor: Vince Vaughn, Will FerrellBrand: Paramount
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Original Language); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 94 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-12-28
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Dreamworks Video
DVD Reviews of Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
DVD Review: Son of a Bee Sting
Summary: 5 Stars
Will Ferrel is the man! The role of Ron Burgundy suited him well. And he capitalisized box-office-wise to great effect by assuming this 'anchorman of anchormen' lead. Two Thumbs Up! Way Up! Hadn't laughed this hard since Tanya Harding used her Kerrigan knee-capper in a 'Colder Than Ice Cold' failed attempt at smut. Christina Applegate did a fine job. No, that's selling her short - she was titillatingly splendid. Steve Carell's IQ may have escaped him in this flick, but it barely showed....oh alright, even the polar bear club would have demanded photo ID plus background check. Very funny movie! Ferrel drunk at the bar doing his best Ted Kasinsky drowning in a cesspool of his own frustration was a hoot. Thanks to all involved with the film, for I can now in good faith point to my 'Pattern in the Pleats' as explanation for all misgivings/shortcomings.
A quick word on what it takes to emulate Ronald Burgundy's lavish workplace know-how:
If one owns many leather bound books, a next logical step would be 'Become local television news host/anchor.' That's all it takes folks. Books bounded by sweet/sweat scented leather - questionably recycled hooker boots and bum chaps shall not count on account of the smell-factor which cannot be discarded duefully nor outrightly - are your ticket to a rusted tinsle town. Yes, at this stage you can earnestly make claim of possessing 'The Right Stuff' 'The Mack Skills' 'The Dim Wits of Reporter Tradition'. Albeit critical acclaim/acknowledgement along the fine-lines of 'Big phony lacking belly laugh believability' and 'Such a Dullard the viewing audience can't help but contemplate belly laughing' is yet far off. Needn't fret! Those goods will come with the baggage - the hag seated next to you learned this lesson decades earlier dating your arrival when her rocky on-scene update covering the local brothel revealed an all too familiar name in the scandalous brouhaha's late 60's archives (here's inserted name of whomever your local coanchor happens to be - sexual status irrelevant). And you thought their constant brooding on set week-in-week-out was senility in practice! You see, Ron Burgundy took his notes on the fly, but from birth he surpassed you and I. His books were leather bound. Are yours? Shouldn't they be? Will you ever initiate jotting down post-birth guiding notes? We can't all be Ron Burgundy at the anchor chair, but the sooner the better, trust me. Paperback wasn't invented in his day - then again the cover's consistency didn't seem to hinder Ron's competency level one iota. 'Go Frick Yourselves San Diego' is prime evidence of just that. C'mon future anchor persons, if you're gonna be so brash as to convince yourself of the futility of preparatory prime time area news greetings & salutations, well, please 'Go Frick Yourselves.' I don't want my progeny staring bleary-eyed numbskullish at your drivel spewing robotically programmed remote controlled psychobabble frequented freakishly lip sticked yapper (is that lip stick I spot on two front yellow speckled teeth/mischisled dentures?) - especially when the little diablos could at the snap of my butler's fingers swiftly switch the channel and tune in to Ronny Boy Burgundy! - or the likes of his ilk. I want my seed edumacated, NOT mentally emaciated via verbally lackluster 'And here's the news good people' fantasmagorical shoot-yourself-in-both-feet-put-yourself-in-a-stranglehold-pinch-your-brain-borefests! Why can't you lie to me straightfaced? Everybody else does. Getting away with it isn't a grand challenge. Ron Burgundy should serve as your prima donna anchor (man over board) archetype - follow not your heart but Ronald 'big lights' Burgundy in all sincere endeavor. Fare thee well, he's a tough act to follow come suppertime story. My notes are full.
In the case this has drawn laughs from anyone...I've a quick rap (condensed rendition)to lay down as a creme de le creme snack-on extra. It's in deference to SNL's 'Lazy Sunday' track dished out feverishly by Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg, two dandy cast members. Here goes, the title is 'Crazy Someday' and keep in mind I'm white (rap doesn't come naturally in desperate times of weed):
Drip drip drip sounds
my tip above the nip.
Tank topped tutu's
do you own a quip cutie.
Slackin, Packin, you know
I wouldn't be Jackin.
Pretty penny @ the pump
9 months should I dump.
(transition to chorus)
Life has its hazy shade
hangin over me.
Toodles goes my noodles
Spiked w/ grenade grenadine.
Rodent highwire stunts
high voltage shook that dunce.
Farmer's boy rides the cow
milks horses straight off plow.
(new verse...rapid entrance)
Don't stare @ the high-brow
Gettin uni, growin thick
Woulda cut it off
See it's strechin past my...SLICKed sole
trampin all over yours.
Bus stops, Monsters of the Loch
I'd flash you glimpses but I'm busy....this block!
And ya don't stop.
And ya don't stop....till ya flop.
Rollin dusty must he
let her fly?
Toot-ache in the mornin
damn I tell ya who was that guy?
(back to Chorus...then)
You can call me crazy
just don't praise me.
Connie Chung
she's a shakin it
William Hung
yo this dude he aint fakin it.
(transition to Ricky Martin)
She banged, she banged
on my front door.
So I moved, I moved
didn't hear her snore.
She looked like a Rose
But she belted the Blues.
What's a fella gonna say
when he's missin a screw.
She banged, she banged
Now I'm crazy lazy!
Description of Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
Will Ferrel (Old School, Elf) is Ron Burgundy, a top-rated 1970's San Diego anchorman who believes women have a place in the newsroom - as long as they stick to covering fashion shows or late-breaking cooking stories. So when ron is told he'll be working with a bright young newswoman (Christina Applegate) who's beautiful, ambitious and smart enough to be more than eye candy, it's not just a clash of two TV people with really great hair - it's war! Filled with wicked wit and slapstick humor, Anchorman is the year's most wildly irreverent, must-see comedy hit!Will Farrell followed up his star-making vehicle Elf, which matched his fine-tuned comic obliviousness to a sweet sincerity, with a more arrogant variation on the same character: Ron Burgundy, a macho, narcissistic news anchor from the 1970s. Along with his news posse--roving reporter Brian Fantana (Paul Rudd, Clueless), sports guy Champ Kind (David Koechner), and dim-bulb weatherman Brick Tamland (Steve Carell, Bruce Almighty)--Burgundy rules the roost in San Diego, fawned upon by groupies and supported by a weary producer (Fred Willard, Best In Show) who tolerates Burgundy's ego because of good ratings. But when Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate, View from the Top) arrives with ambitions to become an anchor herself, she threatens the male-dominated newsroom. Anchorman has plenty of funny material, but it's as if Farrell couldn't decide what he really wanted to mock, and so took smart-ass cracks at everything in sight. Still, there are moments of inspired delirium. --Bret Fetzer
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