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Now streaming on: Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues finds Will Ferrell s vain news reader Ron Burgundy trying to re-create himself at a CNN-type network in the eighties, and accidentally inventing the soul-sucking brand of non-news that now rules cable. It s a pretty good joke, one that you might even call satirical, but it s not sustained; the movie keeps forgetting about it, just as it keeps forgetting about Ron s desire to reunited with estranged wife Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate) and their ickily sweet son Walter (who s named for Walter Cronkite and played by Judah Nelson). Nothing in Anchorman 2 is sustained, really. As directed by Adam McKay, who helmed the original, it s a slapped-together movie more so than most movies by former Saturday Night Live stars, more so than most Will Ferrell films, and certainly more so than the original 2004 Anchorman, a bunch of heavily improvised bits that nevertheless seemed to be going somewhere because they were wove