Watched: Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
This was funny, but overlong and with one or two jokes in really poor taste. It also felt a little thematically dissonant - at times, the jokes about Brick felt more mean-spirited than absurd.
The absurd points were where the film shined, incidentally. There’s an extended sequence where Ron Burgundy rears a shark in captivity, and I suspect it confused some of those in the cinema; allowing the film to go on flights of fancy is where its genius lay, and retreading familiar ground (the final fight scene, while laden with a half-dozen funny celebrity cameos, felt a little reworked) often felt more like pandering than genuine humour.
All that said, it was still very funny. And maybe that’s enough.