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Movies that feel likeAnchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)

With the 70s behind him, San Diego's top rated newsman, Ron Burgundy, returns to take New York's first 24-hour news channel by storm.

If you loved Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, the closest films we have are Step Brothers (2008), My Mom Is a Character (2013) and The Big Short (2015). All three share Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

🍅 74% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Adam McKaywittyplayful
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)

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Step Brothers
2008 · dir. Adam McKay
🍅 54%★ 6.9comedy

Adam McKay working the same nerve twice

Brennan Huff and Dale Doback might be grown men. But that doesn't stop them from living at home and turning into jealous, competitive stepbrothers when their single parents marry. Brennan's constant competition with Dale strains his mom's marriage to Dale's dad, leaving everyone to wonder whether they'll ever see eye to eye.

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My Mom Is a Character
2013 · dir. André Pellenz
★ 6.8comedy

The same mix in both: wit, then play

After another spat with her kids, Dona Hermínia decides to take some time off from them and hides away in her aunt's house, where she reminisces about her kids in an age when they still needed her.

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The Big Short
2015 · dir. Adam McKay
🍅 89%★ 7.8comedy · drama

Adam McKay directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Played as drama first

The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.

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Suck Me Shakespeer
2013 · dir. Bora Dağtekin
★ 6.9comedy

Comedy built on wit, twice over

Ex-con Zeki Müller goes undercover as a teacher at a below average Gymnasium to find money he'd stashed prior to incarceration.

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Babysitting
2014 · dir. Nicolas Benamou
★ 6.8comedy

Comedy with a pulse of play, in both cases

Looking for a baby-sitter for the night, Marc Schaudel entrusts his son Remy to the care of his employee Franck, a straight man. But the thing that Marc doesn't know, is that Franck is getting 30 years old this weekend and that his son Remy is a very capricious child. The next day, Marc and his wife Claire are awakened by a call from the police. Remy and Franck are missing, and the house is totally devastated. The police finds a camera in the leftovers. Marc, Claire and the police start watching the video that has been recorded the day before during the night and find out what happened to Franck and Remy.

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I Can Quit Whenever I Want
2014 · dir. Sydney Sibilia
★ 7comedy

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

A university researcher is fired because of the cuts to university. To earn a living he decides to produce drugs recruiting his former colleagues, who despite their skills are living at the margins of society.

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Sun in Buckets
2013 · dir. Gennaro Nunziante
★ 6.3comedy

Both work the same play

The story of a father and a son. An on the road trip from South to North.

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Daddy's Home 2
2017 · dir. Sean Anders
🍅 20%★ 6.1comedy

The comedy is handled with the same confidence

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Father and stepfather Dusty and Brad join forces to make Christmastime perfect for the children. Their newfound partnership soon gets put to the test when Dusty's old-school, macho dad and Brad's gentle father arrive to turn the holiday upside down. After a sudden change in plans, the four men decide to take the kids to a luxury resort for a fun-filled getaway that turns into a hilarious and chaotic adventure.

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What a Beautiful Day
2011 · dir. Gennaro Nunziante
★ 6.3comedy

Comedy of the same temperament

Checco, an uneducated but self-satisfied fellow from Milan, who has always dreamed of becoming a police officer, fails his entrance exam for the third time. It must be said that at the oral examination Checco said that the reason why he wanted to join the police was benefits in kind and cronyism! But the young man has connections and he soon finds himself a security agent at the Milan Cathedral. Of course the bumbling idiot proves a living catastrophe! Spotted by Sufien, an Arab terrorist who is preparing an attack against the cathedral, Checco appears as the perfect sucker. To manipulate him, he sends his charming sister Farah to him, with the mission to seduce him...

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Horrible Bosses 2
2014 · dir. Sean Anders
🍅 35%★ 6.3comedyParamount+

Comedy approached the same way

Dale, Kurt and Nick decide to start their own business but things don't go as planned because of a slick investor, prompting the trio to pull off a harebrained and misguided kidnapping scheme.

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The Change-Up
2011 · dir. David Dobkin
🍅 26%★ 6.3comedyStarz

Both play comedy straight

Lifelong friends Dave and Mitch are envious of the other's life. Mitch thinks Dave has it all: a beautiful, loving family and a high-paying job at a prestigious law firm. But Dave thinks Mitch’s stress-free playboy life without obligation or consequence is the real dream come true. One fateful drunken night, they both admit that they wish they had the other’s life while peeing in a fountain when lightning strikes. The next morning, they wake up, hungover, in each other’s bodies! With time not on their side, Mitch and Dave comically struggle to avoid completely destroying each other’s lives before they can find a way to get their old ones back.

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Meu Passado Me Condena: O Filme
2013 · dir. Julia Rezende
★ 5.8comedy

Both working the same comedy territory

The immature and cheap douche bag Fábio Clóvis marries the pseudo-intellectual Miá and they travel in a cruise to Europe on board of a fancy passenger vessel. Fabio and Miá are invited to have dinner with the wealthy Beto Assunção and his gorgeous wife Laura in a VIP restaurant on the vessel. Soon Fábio discovers that Beto was Miá's boyfriend and Miá learns that Fábio had a crush on Laura that was his classmate. Meanwhile the cynical chamber maid Suzana Mello and her estranged husband, the entertainer Wilson, make a bet that Fábio and Miá will split before the end of the trip and poison their relationship. When the ship arrives in Casablanca, Fábio meets his bothersome childhood friend Cabeça that affects their honeymoon.

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