Nearly a decade after the original had gone from a sleeper hit to a genuine phenomenon, McKay re-teamed with his increasingly in-demand cast (some sequences are painfully grafted together by disparate elements, with actors filming parts that they weren’t physically available for, and you can tell) and set a new target: the birth of the 24-hour news cycle. You could tell by now that McKay had more on his mind than silly comedy and broad humor, and it’s the weaving of the political and the pratfall that makes “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues” more difficult to love but easier to admire.
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