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Continues'; Will Ferrell Returns in a Good-Not-Great Sequel PDF
Print E-mail Written by By Kurt Loder    Friday, 27 December
2013 22:10  One understands why Will Ferrell and director Adam
McKay waited so many years to follow up "Anchorman: The Legend
of Ron Burgundy." That 2004 hit, which they co-wrote, seemed to
take wild non-sequitur humor as far as it could go -- its
scabrous raunch approached perfection. A sequel would have to
expand upon the earlier film's concept of a preening TV nitwit
amok in the happy-talk localnews scene of the 1970s. Could such
a movie ever be more than a re-tread?  Well, Ferrell and McKay
finally went ahead and made that sequel, and here it is, and
yes, they've extended their story in a clever way. The year is
now 1980, and Ron (Ferrell) and his onetime nemesis Veronica
Corningstone (Christina Applegate) are married-withkid and have
moved up to the big time, co-