Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) is the star news anchor on a San Diego channel in the early 1970s. Ron is the sort of news presenter who believes his channel's promo spots are gospel and can read anything that's put in front of him on the teleprompter.
Just don't ask him to understand or explain it.
Ron is facing a crisis. The news director, Ed Harke (Fred Willard), has hired a "chick reporter", Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate), to cover the warm fuzzy stories such as cat fashion shows.
Ron is not alone. The other members of the news team - sportscaster Champ Kind (David Koechner), weatherman Brick Tamland (Steven Carell) and features reporter Brian Fantana (Paul Rudd) are similarly appalled.
More so when it becomes obvious that their new colleague is not only competent, she's ambitious. She wants to sit beside Ron and be the co-anchor.
With cameos from Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller and Tim Robbins as anchors on the rival channel across town, there's more than a passing resemblance to The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its newsroom-based, gender-inspired situation comedy.
Which may be part of the problem: what worked on a half-hour situation comedy doesn't bear stretching into a full-length movie, even when padded out with 70s fashion and pop-music crimes.
The disk features a moronic commentary from Ferrell and co-writer Adam McKay, the co-stars and a couple of passing celebrities including comedian Andy Richter and singer Lou Rawls; a blooper reel, 22 deleted scenes, making-of and faked scenes from Ron Burgundy's "career".
* DVD, Video rental today
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