Come and see how good 'Anchorman' looks!

"Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy" has never looked better with the new Blu-ray release that smells of "Rich Mahogany."

There really isn't much to say about the video and audio quality. It's not a movie that is going to wow anyone in HD, but it does have a great picture and audio. You can clearly see the bags under Burgundy's eyes.

The theatrical movie, unrated movie, and "Wake Up, Ron Burgundy" are in HD.

I haven't gone through all the special features yet, but rest assured that you are getting more than what was on the original DVD release.

I plan on checking to see if the features on the "Breaking News" Best Buy exclusive disc are on here. "Breaking News" was a bonus disc that came with the movie when it originally came out on DVD in 2004.

Watching this Blu-ray was my first time seeing "Wake Up, Ron Burgundy."

If you are like me and had never seen it and tried hunting down the out of print DVD, you will be disappointed. It is merely a montage of deleted scenes put together in an attempt to make a quasi-sequel.

If you treat it like a sequel, lots of things don't make sense.

As far as what's included that's not on the disc, the booklet entitled "The Many Months of Burgundy" is funny. It's a small date book with random notes of Burgundy's thoughts. It's not something you will read cover-to-cover, but more flip through and chuckle at.

Here are some alternate sign-off lines Burgundy wrote in here:
- "You stay classy, San Diego... or else!" which is too ominous and
- "Stay classy, San Diego. And for those of you who don't, well then, burn in hell" which is too harsh.

The trading cards aren't anything special. They have standard profile pictures of the characters on the front. There is various information about each character on the back ranging from height to favorite movie to a short biography. The characters included are:
- Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell),
- Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate),
- Brian Fantana (Paul Rudd),
- Brick Tamland (Steve Carell),
- Champ Kind (David Koechner),
- Ed Harken (Fred Willard),
- Wes Mantooth (Vince Vaughn),
- Frank Vitchard (Luke Wilson),
- Chip McGee (Tim Robbins),
- Arturo Mendes (Ben Stiller),
- Steve Graff (Jack Black) and
- Jess Moondragon, San Diego's original anchor.

For a full list of special features, see my last post.

Overall, the Blu-ray is definitely a worthy upgrade for "Anchorman" fans.

As of now, you can only buy Anchorman, "The Rich Mahogany Edition" at Best Buy for $24.99. It will be released elsewhere later.

Anchorman is still available on DVD with a widescreen unrated edition and a full screen theatrical edition. There's really no reason to get the theatrical edition. The unrated version of the movie added more funny lines and isn't much more inappropriate for young viewers than the PG-13 version. Plus, the unrated edition is less expensive.