Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues

It’s silly and in many ways a rehash. What’s clever is the satirical look at the type of “news” Ron Burgundy and his team decides to cover: sensational car chases, celebrity dismemberments, and puppies. The movie proposes that the style of news coverage that quickly made ALL the news so terrible was invented by Ron Burgundy. I would have liked to see more of that kind of media-skewering. Otherwise, it’s a lot of shtick. Some of it’s funny. Some of it? Not so much. You can tell when the actors are improvising, the comedy m.o. is “randomness.” It’d be neat if this gang of world-renowned comedians could move away from that style and try things more, um, contextual?