“Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues” (2013) might not match the magic of the original, but it was still damn funny; I’d give it a 9 out of 10.

Occasionally a major gag was so bizarre that it was more perplexing than funny (Dobie the shark, the RV accident, the ghost of Stonewall Jackson).  But this movie is mostly a great and nicely quotable farce, as the first one was.  Predictably, the biggest laughs result from Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) and Brick Tamland (Steve Carell).  But Paul Rudd and David Koechner both are still perfect as Brian Fantana and Champ Kind, and they add a lot.

I think movies like this tend to work best when farcical, over-the-top characters are played against “straight men” characters; here, Ron’s dinner with his girlfriend’s family is a perfect example.

Weird world — I thought that the guy in Marvel’s “Ant Man” posters looked familiar.  That’s Rudd.