Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)

Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (PG-13)

"Sequel fails to deliver, news at 11"

The Action News Team returns to the dawning of the 80s in this unwise sequel to the strange comedy gold that was the sexy sexist 70s.  This time they are joining a new 24hour cycle cable-news network, and Ron finds almost immediate success as an empty-air anchor, doing light breezy humanitarian stories that fill up the hours.  Unfortunately the jokes and off-the-cuff humor isn't as successful.  Whole plot lines feel like last-minute brain-storms (Ron is racist at dinner, Ron goes blind, Ron works at Seaworld!), and if the jokes landed we'd be more ok with that. The sequel feels more like Ron's solo movie than the comedy team work that was a well-oiled, very odd comedy gold machine last flick.  Brick (Steve Carrell) gets a girlfriend, but Champ and Brian are both sidelined.  Starts off funny but it soon fades, has very little of the lunatic creativity of the original, put down the scotch and change the channel.

4 Thrown Burritos out of 10 (BAD)