It\u2019s a very rare film that can make me laugh out loud in a cinema. Those who know me know I\u2019m not a big one for expressing myself with *Brick voice* LOUD NOISES *End Brick voice* as it is, so a film that can achieve this feat has got to have something special. What kind of special ingredient would this be, you ask? Slapstick, of course. Good old fashioned, silly, illogical slapstick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
So. Let\u2019s set the scene. After a short hiatus of different career explorations, Ron Burgundy and his news team are back together and better than ever. Brian\u2019s innocent question of who\u2019s driving the vehicle as they converse is answered by Ron\u2019s confident assurance that the RV is on cruise control. No danger. All good. Ron exhibits some admirable xenia as the host, offering his compatriots some chimichangas with his readily available deep fat fryer. Champ asks Ron why he happens to have a bag of bowling balls and terrarium full of scorpions, but Ron is too modest to tell the whole story. When Brian informs Ron that cruise control only regulates speed, however, it doesn\u2019t seem like things are going to go well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And indeed, they don\u2019t. All of that delicious fat goes to waste once the RV runs off road and flips around, changing into slow motion when the liquid instead decorates Champ\u2019s face as he subsequently screams in agony. One of those spare (pun intended) bowling balls goes flying and makes contact with Brian\u2019s unappreciative forehead, again eliciting a scream of intense pain. But these inanimate objects aren\u2019t the only ones that get to deal out injuries on the pain train. Nope, Baxter, our gentleman of foggy London town, also gets in on the action, biting Champ on the arm to add an extra dose of punishment. Most animals aren\u2019t cool with being caged, so, when a scorpion makes its way out of that terrarium and spies Ron\u2019s tongue, that\u2019s an easy target for revenge. There\u2019s still time for more though. After smacking his head against the RV roof, Brick is subjected to a final moment of torture as that pesky bowling ball connects with his nether regions. Oof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anchorman 2<\/em> received a lot of flak at the time of its release for basically being a rehash of the original, but I didn\u2019t have much of an issue with that, and I wasn\u2019t exactly expecting a radical change in narrative anyway. With golden nuggets like this scene, there\u2019s no problem. The set-up is genius, slow motion is used to humorous perfection, and the whole scenario is just so darn tootin\u2019 funny. 100% of the time, it works all the time (sorry Brian, I had to change your humorous illogical quote to make factual sense in this case).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s a very rare film that can make me laugh out loud in a cinema. Those who know me know I\u2019m not a big one for expressing myself with *Brick voice* LOUD NOISES *End Brick voice* as it is, so a film that can achieve this feat has got to have something special. What kind … <\/p>\n