Wake up, Ron Burgundy! : The Lost Movie

Wake up, Ron Burgundy!: The Lost Movie (2004) starring Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell, and David Koechner.

I had a lot of hope for this film. Effectively the movie is made up of the bits that weren't put in Anchorman, and that is one of my all time favourite movies. Every line is gold dust and every line gets a laugh, and so to have a movie that has MORE from these brilliant writers, well surely that a winner!

The plot of the film is different it follows on directly from Anchorman, and the core of the movie is about Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate) and Ron Burgundy (Ron Burgundy) going for the same story about a group of thieves who call themselves the Alarm Clock. The rivalry between the two reporters plays out as the aim to be the reporter with the winning story.

So...what did I think...not good....not good at all. Although all of the plot is written by the same people, it is pieces of alternate takes and dropped sub-plots, meaning bits the writers and director didn't think were good enough to go in first time. The plot of the movie fumbles and falters towards its ending with at times sections that feel crow-barred into the plot.

Ultimately I was disappointed, considering it is effectively Anchormans little brother. Sections of it are brilliant but unfortunately the bits in between the sections aren't. Basically this is the slimmed down version of Anchorman...but the thing is Anchorman was perfectly toned in the first place!
★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆