"I think it's a venereal disease."
This sequel to the laugh-out-loud cult classic thankfully does not disappoint. Although played out on a wider canvas and perhaps more scattershot than the original, Anchorman 2 has a higher hit-rate and is more consistent, in spite of a woefully-misjudged extended lighthouse/shark/blindness episode in the final third. The core team play off each other with ease and great humour, with Carell's Brick stealing every scene and providing many of the laugh-out-loud moments. Christina Applegate gets disappointingly little comedy to do here, and even Kristin Wiig's female-Brick character underwhelms, but James Marsden is spot-on as Burgandy's younger competition. Anchorman 2 is easily one of the year's most enjoyable comedies and continues the legend admirably.
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