Sixty percent of the time, it works all the time... (Anchorman - The Legend Of Ron Burgundy (DVD))

Member Name: RedBen

Product:	Anchorman - The Legend Of Ron Burgundy (DVD)
Date:	08/01/09 (117 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Quite simply hilarious

Disadvantages: None. If you disagree, I will fight you

There are those who refute its genius. There are those who dare to suggest that people who find comedic solace in this film tantamount to nothing more than braindead, puerile prepubescents. There are those who say Will Ferrell has less talent than Martin Lawrence during a writer's strike.

Well, all I have to say to those people is...

... You are a smelly pirate hooker.

Anchorman, the story of Ron Burgundy and his cadre of newsreading misfits, is lowbrow comedy at its finest. It tracks the fall and rise of the eponymous Ron, as he is forced to deal with such revolutionary socio-political advances as Women In The Workplace and... well... that's about it really.

Eminently quotable, the script is so funny, and the actors so in tune with it, that repeat viewings are essential. I'm at the stage where I count them by the dozen.

It's been said before, and I'm lazy so I'll say it again, but this is probably as close to a Marmite film as you'll get: love it or hate it, not many will fall in between. A good test is that if you haven't started laughing - and by laughing I mean to a degree that is almost dangerous to your physical wellbeing - by the time they start talking about the effects of women's menstruation in attracting wild bears, then this film is probably not for you.

Fortunately, the only people I can imagine who wouldn't find this funny are nuns and dead people. And maybe bears.

Everyone else, sit back and be prepared to love lamps.

Summary: The funniest film this decade