Anchorman - The Legend Returns

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Movie
German title Anchorman - The Legend Returns
Original title Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
Anchorman 2 Logo.jpg
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2013
length 119 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Adam McKay
script Will Ferrell ,
Adam McKay
production Judd Apatow ,
Will Ferrell,
Adam McKay
music Andrew Feltenstein ,
John Nau
camera Oliver Wood
cut Brent White ,
Melissa Bretherton
occupation
chronology

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Anchorman - The Legend of Ron Burgundy

Anchorman - The Legend Returns (Original Title: Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues ) is an American  comedy film directed by Adam McKay and is the sequel to Anchorman - The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004). The film opened in German cinemas on January 30, 2014.

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Reporter Ron Burgundy, his wife Veronica Corningstone, weather expert Brick Tamland, street reporter Brian Fantana and sports expert Champ Kind starred on a local channel 4 news show in San Diego, but the team was split up. Seven years later, Ron and Veronica work as a presenter duo for a national broadcaster in New York until their boss promotes Veronica and Ron quits at the same time. He can't cope with this situation at all and gives his wife the choice between a career and marriage. She chooses the job. This is how things go downhill with the abandoned Ron: First he hires out as a presenter of a dolphin show in a theme park, but there, too, he is fired. It wasn't until one day representatives of the new round-the-clock broadcaster GNN showed up and wanted to hire him for a news program that the tide turned. Ron sets out to hire his old comrades, but Brian Fatana is now a successful cat photographer, Champ Kind runs a fast food restaurant and Brick Tamland appears to have had a serious accident.

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Part of the cast of Anchorman 2 at the Australian premiere

In May 2008, Adam McKay said that he and Will Ferrell were discussing a sequel to the first film. On July 23, 2008, McKay announced that he and Ferrell were already working on the film. Carrell, Rudd, and Ferrell himself accepted wage cuts for the film. In March 2012, Paramount Pictures confirmed the sequel.

Filming took place from March to May 2013 on St. Simons Island and Georgia , among others . The film premiered on December 18, 2013. The film was released under distribution by Paramount Pictures .

Reviews

In the USA the film received mostly good reviews - on Rotten Tomatoes 75% of the 177 recorded reviews were (rather) positive, with many reviews indicating that the sequel is very similar to its predecessor.

For example, B. Richard Corliss in Time Magazine :

"Wine connoisseurs would call this a new Burgundy with an old bouquet."

"Wine lovers would describe this film as a new Burgundy with an old bouquet."

- Richard Corliss : Anchorman 2 in Time Magazine

In the Internet Movie Database , the sequel achieved a rating of 6.3 (around 144,000 users voted).

German-speaking critics gave the film mixed ratings. While Andreas Staben on Filmstarts.de described the film as a “successful satire on the news business”, Cinema reported “insults and nonsense alternating - the mix doesn't always make it easy for the viewer”. Christopher Diekhaus described the sequel in his reviews for Kino-Zeit.de and Spielfilm.de as “questionable pleasure” with only “a few successful gags” and all the more “dull jokes”. The film service found that the sequel wanted to "continue the carefree comedy of the original", which did not quite succeed. Nevertheless, the "episodically told film entertained with its carefree humor, which despite satirical swipes primarily revolves around the stupidity of its main characters."

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  1. ↑ Release Certificate for Anchorman - The Legend Returns . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2014 (PDF; test number: 142 877 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Anchorman - The Legend Returns . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Premiere in Germany
  4. ↑ Anchorman 2 at rottentomatoes.com. Retrieved January 27, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Richard Corliss . In: Time Magazine . Retrieved January 27, 2014.
  6. ^ Anchorman 2 at imdb.com. Retrieved December 12, 2017 .
  7. ^ Anchorman 2 at Filmstarts.de. Retrieved January 27, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Anchorman 2 at Cinema.de. Retrieved January 27, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Anchorman 2 at kino-zeit.de. Retrieved January 27, 2014 .
  10. ↑ Anchorman 2 at spielfilm.de. Retrieved January 27, 2014 .
  11. ^ Anchorman 2 at filmdienst.de. Retrieved January 27, 2014 .