Reviews for this film from our members:
- Edwin Arnaudin @ Ashvegas
- Excerpt: Back for more of the same just shy of a decade later, the crew’s random one-liners and annoying personas haven’t aged well, though die-hards of Adam McKay’s original likely won’t notice.
- Jason Bailey @ Flavorwire
- Excerpt: In their big, expensive, hyper-marketed Christmas studio movie, they’re doing the same kind of Fox-mocking that Jon Stewart does every night. But there is an argument to be made that what they’re doing is ballsier.
- Chris Barsanti @ Film Journal International
- Excerpt: About the only gag that doesn’t get recycled in this saggy, would-be-satirical sequel is the one about Ron Burgundy’s love of scotch.
- Kevin Carr @ 7M Pictures
- Excerpt: While I still enjoyed “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues,” and I will likely watch it several times in the future, it really is the “Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me” of the series.
- Michael Dequina @ TheMovieReport.com
- Billy Donnelly @ This Is Infamous
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: Like the first movie, the sequel squanders its promising satirical premise … for gags that really have nothing to do with the situation or even the characters.
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: Slyly silly and subversively stupid – which is exactly what you’d expect.
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Anchorman 2 is the work of talented writers. There’s a real respect to the original while adding enough unique material to make this episode seem not only fresh, but necessary.
- Travis Hopson @ Punch Drunk Critics
- Excerpt: You know our news media is terrible when Ron Burgundy emerges as the voice of reason.
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Far from perfect, but its humor is nearly Monty Python-esque, much more deliciously absurd and creatively bizarre than its predecessor.
- Daniel Kelly @ Danland
- Excerpt: the film represents the best sequel anybody could’ve reasonably anticipated.
- Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: Self-indulgent in the extreme and in need of some sharper editing shears, “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues” is very hit-and-miss throughout, but it’s still pretty funny.
- Kristin Dreyer Kramer @ NightsAndWeekends.com
- Benjamin Kramer @ The Voracious Filmgoer
- Carson Lund @ In Review Online
- Excerpt: The film seems to have been made under the assumption that fans of the Anchorman brand are game to accept a certain more-is-better attitude from its makers. Such an outlook doesn’t always yield unqualified success, of course, but it guarantees that within a wall-to-wall barrage of jokes, at least some of them are likely to land.
- [New – 2/6/14] | James Madden @ Film Blerg
- Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Ross Miller @ Thoughts On Film
- Excerpt: The sequel, while predictably not as good as the first one, is still a consistently funny and hugely quotable effort from Ferrell and Co.
- Simon Miraudo @ Quickflix
- Jamie S. Rich @ DVD Talk
- Excerpt: There are some familiar callbacks that still work, but they comfort rather than surprise. Director/co-writer Adam McKay lets the nominal plot of the thing run too long, but there’s lots of chortles, guffaws, and belly-shakers to be had, and all involved should suffer no embarrassment in relation to the movie’s revered legacy.
- Jerry Roberts @ Armchair Cinema
- Excerpt: When it’s funny you laugh. When it’s not you appreciate the effort.
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: The same menu of bizarre non-sequiturs and surrealistic stupidity.
