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user-inactivated  ·  3923 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: JTHipster where are you? I need you to come back and tell me exactly how bad Anchorman 2 was

You know what? I'll start things off.

The very beginning of the movie is Ron Burgundy about to be eaten by a great white shark. They play it off as a (terrible) throwaway joke. IT'S NOT A JOKE THAT IS HOW THE MOVIE ENDS TWO HOURS LATER. I would apologize for spoiling it but in fact you should be thanking me. Ron gets away. The guy who loves lamp marries Kristen Wiig, because there is only one female in the world who can play dumb but still "funny" women. Whatever.

There are a lot of pointless cameos. Did you know Will Smith is in this movie? Or Jim Carrey? Tina Fey? Liam Neeson and Kanye West? I don't know how that possibly happened. I wasn't expecting it.

Harrison Ford's role (.....) is slightly more than a cameo. He pops up as a tv exec about three minutes into the movie and has some lines. That "plotline" ends, you figure he's gone, you feel bad for him, hope the money was good. You forget about him.

Unfortunately, in the climactic scene Mr. Ford returns as a werewolf.

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EDIT: forgot to put "plotline" in quotes.