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By Zeus’ Beard In A Glass Cage Of Emotion On Whore Island!! ANCHORMAN 2 To Propel Ron Burgundy Into The 1980s!!
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“Anchorman” writer-director Adam McKay tells Entertainment Weekly that he and Will Ferrell “have begun work” on a sequel that will bring ‘70s broadcaster Ron Burgundy into the 1980s.
McKay and Ferrell's other collaborations include "Saturday Night Live," where McKay served as head writer, "Talladega Nights" and "Step Brothers."
I once declared "Anchorman" one of the 10 funniest comedies ever forged.
Read all of EW’s story on the matter here.
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but I do love the first one. It's just absurd enough to cover the fact it's really a pretty witty satire on the cheesy chauvinism of the 1970's.
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You know, because it's such an impressive feat.
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...seconds away from a strangely gratifying yet altogether pointless feat. I still haven't got one...I'm a loser
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So I'm willing to see what they've got. Just add Riley to the mix and it'll be even greater
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I have no idea how to feel about this.
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Me either.<p>I did find the first one amusing though.
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That means bringing back Veronica, Brick, Champ, and sex panther Brian Fantana. <p> Nobody wants to see Ron Burgandy II: the Rise of Garth Holliday.
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I know that you all like a lot of older movies. I've seen them. Nothing is as funny as this. Nothing.
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and they would NOT...stop screaming.
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Their Periods Attract Bears! BEARS CAN SMELL THE MENSTRUATION!!! Greatest. Line Delivery. Ever.
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or if making millions for starring in complete crap has spoiled him. He hasn't done anything funny since 40 year old virgin. I'm sure Paul Rudd, David Koechner and Christina Applegate would come back, though.
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That doesn't make any sense.
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I hate you Ron Burgundy!
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...your taste in movies sucks if you think Anchorman is the funniest movie ever made.<br><br>Yeah, it can be very funny and I know it's all subjective but that's a fairly retarded statement to make.
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there is an Anchorman in columbus Ohio that everyone thinks is retarded like Steve Carrell's part. he even does his hair the same way.
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In an interview a while back, Steve Carrel said he would "absolutley" return for Anchorman 2 and he doesn't think his character should be taken any further than it is (i.e., keep it a supporting role).<br> <br> Anchorman is truly one of those only only films that just took me about three times to view it before I started laughing every minute. I can watch it at least once every year now or so to laugh just as long and hard. Bring on a sequel, and have more singing. Hell, make it a fucking musical. My ass is in the seat.
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I know, my opinion is retarded and my taste sucks because I don't agree with you. Go post somewhere else, this is about Anchorman.
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milk was a bad choice!" Priceless! I'm excited!
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Anchorman is funnier.
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when people put zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz's go fucking read something else if it's making you so fucking sleepy! Anchorman is brilliant!
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Here's a list of all the movies I've ever seen:<br> Schindler's List Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer<br> Cannibal Holocaust<Br> Snuff<br> Superman Returns<br>
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And I hope he wasn't just blowing smoke in that interview. It really wouldn't be 'Anchorman' without Brick, and it'd be lame if they made his character a main player just to cash in on his "Star power." Any cameos (Stiller, Rogen, Vaughn, Wilson, Black, Robbins, etc.) would have to be done tastefully, as well.
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Salo is a little funnier, forgot about that one
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I ate your chocolate-covered squirrel.
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...your taste doesn't suck because you don't agree with me, it sucks because out of all the comedies ever made in the existence of film, you have chosen Anchorman as the best comedy ever made. Ever. Think about that. Or don't. How old are you? Sheesh.
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Seriously. Unfunny and unwatchable, I don't know how so many gave a pass, let alone liked it. Here's hoping we can get Christian Bale to go beat up Will Ferrel's mom...
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He needs to lose a couple more limbs.
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Ferrell's career is in a downard spiral. Old School 2 is his only hope.
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That Japanese family's rec room line is a favorite of mine. If I'm not mistaken, the unrated DVD substituted a different line, and it really pissed me off.
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seems like a nice enough cat, though. just feels like he has to put to much effort into his brand of humor.
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i just finished watching doomsday. pretty horrible flick all-around, but i swear i'd eat the peanuts outta rhona mitra's shit.
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Imagine the possibilities. The emergence of cable (which I clearly remember being in awe of) where CNN, WGN, TBS, and ESPN began the assault against the traditional networks. RON CAN OVERCOME THEM.
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"Well guess what. Now this is happening!"... "That's how I roll"
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I'm at the point where I'm over Ferrell and his stunted man-child act, but the first one has so many great lines/characters I'd have to give it a chance.
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When he's not writing movies where Will Ferrell acts like an overgrown kid, he's creating internet videos where his kid acts like an undersized adult. Genius!
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Seriously- has this guy lived up to the hype he was supposed to be? He's great at 3 minutes skits- but for 90 mimnutes its too much. Try somebody new for a change-
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"Wesley Snipes wasnt aware he was being filmed when they shot Blade." <br><br> Well that would explain why he got in trouble for not paying taxes. How can the government tax you for just living and kicking ass?!?
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I never saw it as a genius comedy that many people do. I'd rather see an Old School 2 than an Anchorman 2.
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It's simple, the smaller the role the funnier he is. Examples? Anchorman, eh. Old School, ha. Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Har. Austin Powers, Har Har.
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And, gauging the underwhelming boxoffice of his previous film, he's overexposed. Ferrell (definitely no Phil Hartman) is slipping into the Abbott & Costello cycle; after a profitable launch, they made too many lame movies (of course, their legacy was rescued with ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN). By the way, Ferrell loathes his fans (declines autographs); one day, he'll beg of the attention.
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Search your feelings, you know this to be true.
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Ron Perlman, Atari, circus midgets, and a blender and I will be watching.
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Ferris Bueller, Christmas Vacation, Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin, Best in Show, Old School, Wedding Crashers, 40 Year Old Virgin, could go on...
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How pecuuuliar.
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If only for Ben Stiller's shit-yourself-from-laughing-so-hard performance, that statement is true. <br><br> Still, I'm a little curious to see if a sequel can live up to the original and not just hang on a bunch of super-obvious whoa-what-were-they-thinking gags about 80s style.
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Funnier than Anchorman? Seriously? That movie was worth a few chuckles on first viewing, but was basically unwatchable after that. Mostly good just for the shock value of the unpredictable scenes like the under the table HJ, or gay dude in a closet. The writing itself was pretty poor.
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They should get Alex Baldwin to play the station manager this time around. Okay, that was MILF Island, but still, you know I'm right...
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Seriously, anymore time we get with that cast of characters would be awesome. I hope this gets done.
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July 23, 2008, 10:36 p.m. CST
I am gonna straight-up murder your ass.
by The Guy Who Slept Through Everything.
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After the main viewing, I probably start to listen to 20% of the commentaries on my purchases, but I knew Anchorman might be worth it. Sweet Lou Rawls Larynx, I was right! Give it a listen.
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July 23, 2008, 10:38 p.m. CST
Guess what, I do. I know that one day...
by The Guy Who Slept Through Everything.
Veronica and I are gonna to get married on top of a mountain, and there's going to be flutes playing and trombones and flowers and garlands of fresh herbs. And we will dance till the sun rises. And then our children will form a family band. And we will tour the countryside and you won't be invited.
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July 23, 2008, 10:38 p.m. CST
I'm not a baby, I am a man. I am an anchorman!
by The Guy Who Slept Through Everything.
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discovered the wheel and built the Eiffel Tower out of metal and brawn. That's what kind of man I am. You're just a woman with a small brain. With a brain a third the size of us. It's science.
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Loved Anchorman (mainly because I have worked in local tv news and know how close to reality much of it is), but there are only so many times you can watch the same man-child routine.
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July 23, 2008, 10:40 p.m. CST
You are a smelly pirate hooker.
by The Guy Who Slept Through Everything.
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was the conversation at the end between Baxter the dog and the kodiak bear.
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July 23, 2008, 10:43 p.m. CST
I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship..
by The Guy Who Slept Through Everything.
that was used during the Civil War era.
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July 23, 2008, 10:45 p.m. CST
The human torch was denied a bank loan.
by The Guy Who Slept Through Everything.
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Out for a nice seafood dinner, and NEVER CALL HER AGAIN
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July 23, 2008, 10:47 p.m. CST
Hey, Ron. I'm riding a furry tractor!
by The Guy Who Slept Through Everything.
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July 23, 2008, 10:49 p.m. CST
I know what you're asking yourself and the answer is yes.
by The Guy Who Slept Through Everything.
have a nick name for my penis. Its called the Octagon, but I also nick named my testes - my left one is James Westfall and my right one is Doctor Kenneth Noisewater. You ladies play your cards right you just might get to meet the whole gang.
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I actively avoid anything starring Will Ferrell, so I'll give this one a wide berth.
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July 23, 2008, 10:50 p.m. CST
I don't normally do this, but I felt compelled to tell you somet
by The Guy Who Slept Through Everything.
You have an absolutely breath-taking... heiney. I mean, that thing's good. I wanna be friends with it.
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July 23, 2008, 10:51 p.m. CST
The arsonist has oddly shaped feet.
by The Guy Who Slept Through Everything.
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July 23, 2008, 10:52 p.m. CST
You stay classy, Planet Earth.
by The Guy Who Slept Through Everything.
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That's not a quote, it's a general opinion.
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"Yeah guys he killed a guy with a trident! Hey, you might wanna get out of town I hear you're wanted for murder!"
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Like sheep's wool?
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Go on.
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I don't know.
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Is if it has massive amounts of Yacht rock!!! Sweet Jesus that's smooth!!
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And get AIDS to fit somehow into the story line?<br><br>Wait, that could be comedy gold.
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July 23, 2008, 11:36 p.m. CST
If you didn't find Anchorman funny you have a small brain. It's
by darthflagg
Seriously, it's right up there with Airplane and Monty Python and the Holy Grail in the laughs per second-o-meter.
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they will include ey my lil friends?
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Gonna grab some afternoon delight
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July 23, 2008, 11:42 p.m. CST
I'd rather just see another movie with the same cast.
by Flim Springfield
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...really built the movie up to be more than what it ended up seeing, IMHO.
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Seriously, he's the most unfunny comedy schtick artist since Rob Schneider. <p>M-O-O-N. That spells fuck off and die.
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...instead of the same sexist idiot studs he always plays. <p> He's funny in small doses, try a buddy comedy (and try getting a comedian as a co-star...as much as i love John C. Reilly, he never has and never will carry a movie.)<p> Or try playing a real person again, like in Old School...Ferrell was hilarious but he actually felt like someone who could interact with the real world, unlike all the rest of his movies where he's off on Planet Ferrell. More and more, lately, by himself.
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Only the names, locations and events have been changed."
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After being viciously attacked by a pack of wild dogs in an abandoned pool."
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for 12 years now. And that in no way is depressing."
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but this movie makes me smile.
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but this movie makes me smile.
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Or should I say, "Boy, this thread really got out of hand"? I'm of two minds about this. I love ANCHORMAN to pieces (I even bought the two-disc edition with the alternate version patched together from deleted scenes and dropped subplots), but I'm going to need to be convinced that a sequel would be fresh enough to justify its existence. With the way Will Ferrell is reaching Ben Stiller levels of oversaturation, by the time ANCHORMAN II actually gets made, his career may be riding on it and the whole thing could be drenched in flop sweat.
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"REALLY! (Looks down)... Yes. I do... uhmmm... sorry, it's the pleats. It's actually an optical illusion. It's the pattern on the pants... I'm actually taking them back right now... taking them back... the pants store. (pregnant pause) Boy, this is awkward."
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... is the fact that they invited Lou Rawls THE SINGER! to help do the commentary track. "So... Lou, you seen many gang fights?"
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when he's suffering from a spiritual and existential funk."
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"Go to the zoo, flip off the monkeys?"
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so you know it's good
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From the REAL Anchorman 2(Or Anchorman 1.1)!
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Briman, Brick and Champ helped make Anchorman what it is. :)
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All:"YAY!"
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Watch out for the guns, they'll get ya.
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Bark twice if you're in Milwaukee...
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from my wallet...would that make you feel better?
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July 24, 2008, 9:12 a.m. CST
superfunny movie...that fight scene was a bit over the top.
by FleshMachine
ben stiller and tim robbins seemed to be in a different movie...they didnt quite get it..but yeah...hilarious movie.
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July 24, 2008, 9:37 a.m. CST
I don't trust anyone who doesn't think Anchorman is...
by Powers Boothe
absolutely fantastic. Talladega Nights and Pootie Tang are the only other "recent" comedies I love as much.<P>I'm really looking forward to Step Brothers this weekend.
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the fact that Ferrell is surrounded by actors who get lines as funny as his. The cast is perfect. I'm too lazt to click on the EW article so I'm not sure how many of those guys will be back for the sequel.
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That's another recent comedy I consider as good as "the classics" from the late 70s/80s. Stuff like National Lampoon's Animal House, National Lampoon's Vacation, The Three Amigos, Stripes and even wildly uneven guilty pleasures like The Blues Brothers, 1941 & Spies Like Us.
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Talledega Nights, Dodgeball, or Dewey Cox. The only Ferrell movie I've seen is Blades of Glory, and I did like that.
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of getting Ferrell, Carell AND Jim Carey together in a picture? With the right script, that might be a recipe for chocolate-coated p****juice
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I don't understand the love for this film. I am neither a Will Ferrell hater or a Apatow team hater, but this film was nothing more than a series of strung together jokes involving one-dimensional characters. I thought the best part was the anchor team gang war and there were definitely other jokes that made me laugh, but not enough to love this film. 40-year old virgin was much funnier and much better. Hell, Dodgeball was much better than this.
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I guess it must appeal to Nascar fans or just hicks in general, but it by far the worst writing of all the Apatow movies.
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With all due respect hst666, you're obviously insane. <p>Comedy is obviously such a subjective kinda thing. Ive never had any luck attempting to convince Anchorman haters of its brilliance. You either dig it or you don't.>p> I may be one of three people on the planet who liked Dewey Cox and Semi-Pro :(
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Without sounding like a snob, I can't imagine a "hick" getting most of the jokes in that film. I know next to nothing about Nascar and thought Talladega was pretty bloody terrific. And just like Anchorman, Ferrell is backed by a great cast. <P> May I be so bold to say you know absolutely NOTHING about what constitutes good comedic writing?
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I laughed ZERO times in the film.
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Is there a squid?
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Rawr. This is indeed good news. and you're a smelly pirate hooker.
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Its just the funniest movie ever made. Endlessly re watchable, every nuance and extra are note-prefect. Cameos are understated, its excellent.
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Love it. I can see why people don't (it's scattershot and very skit-like), but Brick... Luke Wilson... Public Access... Policia... Sex Panther - when it scores, it scores BIG.
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You hit the nail on the head. Parts of it were funny, but came across as a loosely connected series of sketches.
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Aye. Personally, I loved that. Harked back to the days of Naked Gun, where they threw so much at the screen that SOME of it stuck. Were there sucky parts? Yes, Ferrell and McKay wrote a LOT of lines that were mildly amusing and witty but not particularly funny... Ferrell spent a LOT of time trying to top everyone else, and it didn't succeed... and Jack Black's cameo was ill-concieved.
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I burned my tongue
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get my asshole shredded by farm equipment; be sexually abused by a kodiak bear; get aids on the way down after being thrown from the chrysler building; step on a landmine while wearing size 0 lingerie
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They may be trying to make a quick buck (hardly necessary since pretty much anything done by Either Farrel or this writer has generated piles of cash), but the fact that you would use the descriptor "fucking faggots" to describe them says a lot more about you than it does about them. If you're not interested in seeing this film that's fine, but why don't you develop a little bit of sophistication and evolve beyond junior high school bigotry. Usually people who speak that way are closet cases, and in any event such language paints you as a narrow minded slim witted ape. Grow up. Show a little class, and try to formulate an intelligent or eloquent statement.
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I'll be happy to provide the landmine or throw you from the chrysler building if you need a push if it will keep you from whining about movies that haven't been made yet. As for your fantasy of being violated by a bear or farm equipment you're on your own, I'm sure you have the required lingerie. If some of you guys who are bitching about this sequel were half as clever as you think you are, maybe you'd be giving Will Ferrel some competition by doing something creative instead of sitting here complaining about how awful everything is. Anybody who judges a film that hasn't even been shot yet is an asshole plain and simple. Everybody thought Heath Ledger would be a lousy Joker, and while I wasn't convinced one way or the other I was smart enough to keep my mouth shut and wait and see. Most people thought Bryan Singer directing a Superman film was a great idea, but I wasn't convinced, again, I didn't rain on anybody's parade. Some sequels do in fact surpass the original. The Dark Knight, Wrath of Khan, Empire Strikes Back etc. Be skeptical all you want, but stop judging things that don't exist yet. If you don't wanna' see Anchorman 2 good for you. I thought the first one was pretty funny, and if the second gets chuckles out of my friends I'll probably pick up a used copy from Blockbuster. Stop taking movies as personal attacks on you.
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