Believe other negative reviews at your peril. Anchorman 2 certainly delivers the genuine comedy and gags that the first movie presented. Definitely recommend!

Having waited 9 years for a sequel to my favourite Will Ferrell movie, I approached this eagerly but also with an air of caution(comedy sequels, aside from a couple have a habit of being a slight let down)
Although I really enjoyed it, I felt it was probably 20-30mins too long, especially in the last half hour which did 'lag' somewhat.
but thats the only minor quibble I had. All the actors fitted straight back into their roles and hilarity ensues. Just, next time, not so so much filler.

Ron (Will Ferrell) gets terminated from his job and leaves his wife. He is offered a job from upstart GNN 24 hour news. He assembles his news team etc. etc. etc. The plot is not important. The film is fairly simple and it is more like a connection of skits and one liners than a real situation comedy. You could pretty much start watching the movie at any time and it wouldn't matter. The humor, while crude at times, was original and funny. Sure there were a few scenes I would have cut, the condom selection and racist dinner, but there were too many scenes which had me laughing out loud. Excellent support cast.

Some lines from the film:

"Bats: Chicken of the cave."
"He wanted to donate his organs before he died."
"Remember ten years from now..."
"He bottle fed and raised a shark..."

This is high caliber low brow humor. Crude and racial at times.

Parental Guide: 2 F-bombs. No nudity. Brief comical sex scene. Crude sexual talk.

What a comedy! Let's admit it, I haven't seen the original but who really cares with Will Ferrell and Brick Tamland... I LOOOVE LAMP! What I can say is that if you liked the first anchorman, you'll love this one, can't even imagine a slight disappointment.

Funny and consistent, I laughed throughout the movie and YES, I got all the jokes! I usually find comedy movies humorous but Anchorman 2 made me laugh out loud from beginning to end and couldn't stop myself with LOTS of WTF cameos, jim carrey, vince vaughan, harrison ford, Kanye West...

Can't wait for the blu-ray release with the extras added and those 763 new jokes...Don't listen to the negative reviews and judge for yourself.

Anchorman 2 has got to be one of the most hilarious films I have ever watched. Sure, I loved the original Anchorman but this is even better! I fell in love with Ron, Brian, Champ & Brick all over again at the cinema and I cannot wait until this comes out on the shelves. Me and my friends have already worked up the new jokes and one-liners into our general day to day chat - anyone who does not know the lines is seriously out of the group. I'm even thinking about buying a Blu-Ray player so I can watch the Alternate version of the film at home too - just for the gay song! Ever since I went to the cinema again to watch the re-release I've been singing it everywhere. Bring on Anchorman 3!!!!

Ron Burgundy is riding high with wife Veronica Corningstone and son Walter. But when the boss decides to promote Veronica to full time lead anchor and fire Ron, everything changes.

His shot at redemption comes in the form of Freddie, who's an executive producer at the world's first 24 hour news channel.

He hires Ron, who proceeds to reunite Champ, Brick, and Brian, and head back to New York City.

While there, Ron and his news team are given the graveyard shift. Ron comes up with a radical new idea to transform the news and that puts him at the top of the game once again......

It would have been a miracle if the writers usurped the material from the first movie, and they have tried so hard, but with trying so hard, it sometimes falls very hard on its face.

The main problem is that the film is just way too long. They could have trimmed 30 minutes easily, the blind sub plot is awful, and really slows the films pace down. If this wasn't included and it just went to the last fifteen minutes, it could have been something else, but with its inclusion, it just feels bloated.

It still has its surreal sense of humour, and it works when Ron is reforming his team, but as soon as they reach New York, it loses its way in its own absurdity.

Beck is still the funniest thing in the film, and the inclusion of a love interest is funny too.

Things that were leftfield in the first movie, are handled awfully in this and the prime examples here are condom choices, not as funny as the aftershaves in the first, and the fight at the end.

The first was subtle, with a couple of good cameos. Here, they have gone overboard with pointless cameos, and when Harrison Ford turns into a werewolf, and no one laughs, you know a film is gasping for breath.

So it starts good, falters in the middle, and the less said about the end the better.

Not a disaster, but crushingly disappointing.

I never saw the original "Anchorman", so cannot say if "The Legend Continues" is a disaster some feared it might be, but neither can I say it is exceptionally good. The 2-hours effort felt to me... well, like an effort.

"The Legend Continues" follows Ron Burgundy (larger than life, and equally loud, played by Will Ferrell) and his muse/wife Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate) as they try to work together, fight for the best presenter's job in history, break-up, reunite (whilst Ron undergoes a swift moment of blindness, excuse the spoiler) and conquer the world of 24-hour news. Ah, and Ron realises news are not that important, but attending the recital of his son is.

Somewhere in the middle, "Anchorman 2" changes from being quite enjoyable (and almost effortless) to being full of effort and just not that funny. The film climaxes with a turmoil of celebrities fighting each other in the name of... I did not quite get it. It's all loud and a bit too silly and farcical. I somewhat enjoyed it, majorly thanks to Steve Carell.

"Anchorman" has a following, so the people who enjoyed the first part and were looking forward to "The Legend Continues". Alas, it was not my cup of tea. Two and a half to three stars.