Silly comedy that's definitely not for kids

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 21, 2010

Takes a joke and runs with it -- sometimes too far, but usually long enough to wear you down and force you to submit to its craziness.

| Jun 24, 2006

Certainly the silliest comedy of the year, but mainly in a good way.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 11, 2004

This is ideal Friday night fodder if you're in the right mood.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 7, 2004

But it isn't, and instead all we get is a tiredly over-the-top, overly improvised farce that relies more on the popularity of its star than it does on little things like character, story or continuity.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 20, 2004

Slaps a goofy smile on your face.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 15, 2004

What we get is more of the same from Ferrell -- funny faces, goofy accents, pratfalls aplenty -- and that ain't bad. It just could have been a lot better.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 11, 2004

It has a pleasing, noodly elasticity about it -- the picture knows what its limits are and proceeds to boogie unself-consciously far outside them.

Full Review | Jul 10, 2004

Wonderfully silly all the time.

| Jul 9, 2004

You will laugh. Then you will laugh some more. Then you will laugh still again.

| Jul 9, 2004

Like most of these sofa-spud comedies, Anchorman bears its attention-deficit disorder proudly, as it shifts tone and abruptly sidetracks.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 9, 2004

While the film is sporadically funny, it was done much better on the small screen, decades ago.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 9, 2004

A comic idea that never finds the comic wellspring or anything resembling a sure source for laughs.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 9, 2004

Most of it isn't even as funny as those supposedly humorous features that local news broadcasts sometimes end with.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 9, 2004

Ferrell is funny spouting his weird stream-of-consciousness rants, but too often the plot leaves him hanging and he resorts to just Yelling Really Loud.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 9, 2004

As much credit as Ferrell deserves for keeping this nonsense from slipping off the screen, Applegate deserves as well.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 9, 2004

What takes the whole thing pleasurably over the top, turning a goof into a total gas, is the film's pitch-perfect absurdist comedy and warmth.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 9, 2004

Overly broad humor with little on its mind.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Jul 9, 2004

Ferrell has an absolutely magical way of making complete morons lovable.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jul 9, 2004

Always affectionate toward its people, especially when they are at their most ridiculous, Anchorman meticulously builds America's dimmest news team. And we root for them.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 9, 2004