| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade: |
B |
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| Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie |
"...the best thing in the movie is, of course, its star..." more... |
B |
Boston Globe
Ty Burr |
"...Anchorman still gave me more stupid giggles than I'd care to admit if I weren't paid to." more... |
B- |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington |
"It's a cute, silly, likable movie without much weight or intensity, but it's also pretty funny." more... |
B- |
Cincinnati Enquirer
Margaret A. McGurk |
"...hysterically funny." more... |
B+ |
| E! Online |
"...you may shake your head a few times, but you'll also be busy laughing." more... |
B+ |
filmcritic.com
David Thomas |
"...invested in making you laugh at flat-out absurdism than clever irony, and more often than not, it succeeds." more... |
B+ |
Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt |
"...plays like an extended skit with bits of improvisation and several slightly extended sequences." more... |
B+ |
New York Times
A.O. Scott |
"...its cheerful dumbness is hard to resist." more... |
B- |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"...a very funny motion picture, but it also has a good sense of the time and how the medium of TV news was changing." more... |
B |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"It's essentially a one-joke situation carried to a tedious length and Ferrell hardly runs away with his cliched part." more... |
C- |
USA Today
Claudia Puig |
"That he can make his anchorman chauvinistic, deluded and ridiculous but still manage to give him some humanity is testimony to Ferrell's comic talents." more... |
B |
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