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Anyway, the two of them decide to tackle this case and a variety of funny and less-funny situations ensue. It seems like an odd platform for lecturing. In fact the movie seems to have an ulterior motive, the end credits playing out with a stream of very-serious statistics about fraud cases. Unfortunately the movie decides to play this out with a terribly boring embezzlement plot, which makes no use of Steve Coogan as a slimy Wall Street type (honestly, the man needs to stop trying to break America). The heroes in this case are Samuel L Jackson and Dwayne Johnson, hamming it up as the superhero cops of so many terrible action movies, and with some questionable CGI these movies are sent up excellently.When they die an incredibly stupid death (with more questionable CGI), it’s up to someone else to step-up to the plate and be the heroes. They are ‘the other guys’ the ones you see in the background whilst the action focuses on the ‘heroes’. But it is quite a bit shy of a success.įerrell is partnered with Mark Wahlberg, who has been benched to a deskjob after shooting a famous baseball player. To be fair, The Other Guys is far from a disaster.
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This time of that much-loved sub-genre, the buddy cop movie. Well first off, most of the best jokes in the trailer are not in the movie, instead replaced by less-funny improv lines. That’s the only reason I went to see this movie really. The Other Guys sees him reunited with Anchorman director Adam Mackay. Since then Ferrell has struggled to find a vehicle to match it, and has had a go at playing relatively serious too. Sure, it celebrated dumbness, and celebrating dumbness is something I grow increasingly tired of, but it did it so well, and has quickly become one of the most quotable films of all time. Will Ferrell had been bubbling around from a while with noteworthy cameos in such films as Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, but Anchorman was his coming-out party, and that rarified thing the consistently funny American comedy movie. But in 2004 there was Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. All too often the American movie-making machine has recently opted for either gross-out (now boring) or parody (always boring). The number drops even more if we’re talking about comedy movies of the last decade or so. There are a whole bunch that come close, or have one particular sequence that sticks in the mind ( There’s Something About Mary‘s dog-revival scene for instance), but very few seem to work all the way through. The consistently funny American comedy movie is, really, pretty rare. Stars: Will Farrell, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes