![]() And then you remember: This is “Anchorman,” the movie that invites you to switch off your brain and laugh, and to wonder if sometimes the media folks who appear on camera have done the same. Of course, they’re going for nostalgia (nice hair) as well as laughs, and they get both.It’s tempting to say you wish they’d gone harder for more social commentary. McKay and Ferrell deserve credit for trying to make the movie about something - the ridiculous elements of 24-hour news. It’s the kind of movie that, once you see it on a channel-surfing excursion, you stick with, laughing again at lines like, “Brick killed a guy!” or, “Milk was a bad choice.” (And, of course, the great teleprompter disaster. But it’s grown in stature, or at least in quotability, over the years. A widower finds out the woman he fell in love with is his brothers girlfriend. With Steve Carell, Juliette Binoche, Dane Cook, Alison Pill. The original film seemed at first like a funny lark, nothing more. Dan in Real Life: Directed by Peter Hedges. Steve Carell as Brick Tamland Weatherman at KVWN Channel 4. New to the gang are Kristen Wiig and Meagan Good, as a perfect match for Brick and a go-getting news director, respectively. co-workers informs her that Burgundy will read anything written on the teleprompter. (Plus, seemingly everyone who has been in a movie in the last 10 years has a cameo.) And yes, there is a reprise of the battle between networks, bigger and louder, which at first made me groan, until it played out and McKay and Ferrell had their chance to comment upon the ubiquity of channels at our disposal. There are a lot of callbacks to the first film, which is either a nice touch or a lack of imagination, depending on how hard you’re laughing at the moment. Switch on CNN for proof.Įveryone has fun with this, mostly because it’s like shooting fish in a barrel. Its called 'The Patient' and stars Steve Carell. It’s funny, as the immortal Homer Simpson once said, because it’s true. Two executive producers of the FX drama series 'The Americans' have re-teamed to create and write a new 10-part drama premiering today on Hulu. People love to watch police chases, hear patriotic drivel spat at them, watch cute little animals do cute little things. But Burgundy hits on a revolutionary idea. They get stuck with the graveyard shift, when presumably no one is watching (the examples of the type of people who are watching is just one funny commentary McKay and Ferrell, who co-wrote the script, make about the cable-news universe). He scoffs at the idea, but eventually regroups the old San Diego team: lothario reporter Brian Fantana (Paul Rudd), sports-averse sports anchor Champ Kind (David Koechner) and imbecilic weatherman Brick Tamland (Steve Carell). I won’t ruin the surprise, but events conspire to lead Ron to a new venture, a 24-hour cable news network.
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