Hello Fellow Travelers!
Here, in my little corner of California, in Purgatory for the last three years ("Oh, you're still alive!"), I've had the time and serenity to ponder the "big" questions: "Who Are We?" "Is There a God?" And if there is, why would "He" give a rodent's derriere about hooking up smug Christians on the Internet ? Oh please! "Finding God's Match for You!" I highly doubt it. But the big question on a lot of minds is, Is "Anchorman=The Legend Continues" as funny as the original, "Anchorman, the Legend of Ron Burgundy"?
I'm a big fan of the original so I asked Patient Spouse, also a big fan, what his favorite scene was. It was the same as mine - the scene where Ron (Will Ferrell) "helps" Brian Fantana select a special cologne to woo the new girl, Veronica Corningstone, (Christina Applegate). In his office, Mr. Fantana (Paul Rudd) keeps several kinds of aftershave, for a "special lady" he presses a button and "Pantera" pops up.
After he applies some (and we know it's good because it's made with real panther) he goes over to ask Veronica for a date he's nowhere near her when she wrinkles up her nose and says, "What is that smell?" Brian responds with,"That's the smell of desire, Milady!" Just in time for another female to run through the newsroom holding a cloth over her nose shrieking,"It smells like a diaper full of Indian food!" By the end of the scene he's outside being scrubbed by guys in Hazmat suits!
The entire movie has quotable lines ("Bear Fight!") and hysterical scenes, like when Jack Black as a biker throws Ron's dog, Baxter, off a bridge! Don't worry, it's a really fake doggy that gets pitched off the bridge and Baxter has this adventure to come back at the end and save Ron. So to answer the question, "Is Anchorman II as funny as Anchorman"? I'll put it to my standard test: Is it cancer? No? Then who cares? If A2 has one funny scene it's worth a look, anyway. No, I haven't seen it yet, but I will at some point, and even -using my standard form of measure, I'm sure it will be highly entertaining.
Here, in my little corner of California, in Purgatory for the last three years ("Oh, you're still alive!"), I've had the time and serenity to ponder the "big" questions: "Who Are We?" "Is There a God?" And if there is, why would "He" give a rodent's derriere about hooking up smug Christians on the Internet ? Oh please! "Finding God's Match for You!" I highly doubt it. But the big question on a lot of minds is, Is "Anchorman=The Legend Continues" as funny as the original, "Anchorman, the Legend of Ron Burgundy"?
I'm a big fan of the original so I asked Patient Spouse, also a big fan, what his favorite scene was. It was the same as mine - the scene where Ron (Will Ferrell) "helps" Brian Fantana select a special cologne to woo the new girl, Veronica Corningstone, (Christina Applegate). In his office, Mr. Fantana (Paul Rudd) keeps several kinds of aftershave, for a "special lady" he presses a button and "Pantera" pops up.
After he applies some (and we know it's good because it's made with real panther) he goes over to ask Veronica for a date he's nowhere near her when she wrinkles up her nose and says, "What is that smell?" Brian responds with,"That's the smell of desire, Milady!" Just in time for another female to run through the newsroom holding a cloth over her nose shrieking,"It smells like a diaper full of Indian food!" By the end of the scene he's outside being scrubbed by guys in Hazmat suits!
The entire movie has quotable lines ("Bear Fight!") and hysterical scenes, like when Jack Black as a biker throws Ron's dog, Baxter, off a bridge! Don't worry, it's a really fake doggy that gets pitched off the bridge and Baxter has this adventure to come back at the end and save Ron. So to answer the question, "Is Anchorman II as funny as Anchorman"? I'll put it to my standard test: Is it cancer? No? Then who cares? If A2 has one funny scene it's worth a look, anyway. No, I haven't seen it yet, but I will at some point, and even -using my standard form of measure, I'm sure it will be highly entertaining.
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