Anchorman

Certain staff at Emipre magazine had been touting this as the best comedy for a decade on its release! I had seen the talented Will Ferrell in Elf two Christmases ago and found myself enjoying his performance if not the script so much, but other than that I hadn't thought too much about him. Well, there is no doubt anymore: the new King of Comedy is right here! Anchorman (subtitled The Legend Of Ron Burgundy) is - if you like your comedy silly - the most laughs per minute I've had in a long time. At one point I had to pause it to give my kidneys the chance to recover after my convulsions! Not only the man himself, but the supporting cast of characters too are so richly drawn and so preposterously strange that whip them all together with some great one-liners and some hilarious sight-gags and you have a movie even funnier than Dodgeball - and two months ago I wouldn't have thought that possible within the same year. Speaking of Ben Stiller, he pops up in another unforgettable cameo in the same scene as Tim Robbins and Luke Wilson to add even more juice to the coctail. I'm almost scared to watch it again so soon, as I may do myself some permanant damage! Several scences, especially those in the first half of the movie will surely go down in comedy history - not least of all the side-splitting "jazz flute" section (pictured). Ron Burgundy could easily return in more adventures, Austin Powers style, but whatever Ferrell does I will be first in the queue - he has a new biggest fan. 10/10 (for its genre) Kx