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18th December 2013
04:37pm GMT

Anchorman 2 begins a few years after the first instalment. Burgundy and Corningstone are now married with a child and are lead co-anchors for the Channel 4 news. However, the main anchor for nightly news, none other than Mack Harken (Harrison Ford) has decided that he is going to step down from his position and picks Corningstone to be his successor.
Ron is distraught and instead of supporting his wife's decision, he tells her that she must choose between him and the job. When Veronica chooses her career, Ron ends up in a downward spiral, drinking, working at Seaworld, eventually deciding to take his own life. However, at the end of his tether, Ron is offered a new opportunity, a slot on a new 24 hour news channel where he must make something out of the graveyard shift. Before he commits to the new project however, Ron must track down his ultimate news team.
Let us get this straight, Anchorman is never going to live up to your expectations, not for any bad reasons, just purely because you will not know where they will take this and we can guarantee you, you are in for a few shocks; this is nothing like you expect but that's not a bad thing. The second instalment of Anchorman is even more bizarre than the first, perhaps with less examples of obvious quotes but that will take time. No one thought they would screaming "I want to be on you" to random people you didn't know.
Secondly, it is just wonderful to see these characters that everyone so loves back on the big screen. Ferrell is literally a comic genius, Rudd is perfect as usual as Fantana, Carell is simply brilliant as the awkward Brick, Applegate is thoroughly excellent as Corningstone. The support characters are just as fantastic, Baxter is back and that epic fight scene is back in the sequel with far more familiar faces. Arguably one of the best performances is from the brilliant Kristen Wiig as Chani, Brick's new love interest.
Although it seems initially that the sequel won't be as funny as the first, we can almost guarantee that several quotes will be in use by January at the very latest. The cast themselves assured us that they are already using "I'm a Paul Rudd kind of guy" or "I'm a Will Ferrell kind of guy".
Plenty of laughs with some old familiar faces, Anchorman 2 is certainly worth your money.
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