Sentences with phrase «as a buddy cop»

Though advertised as a buddy cop comedy, The Guard is more like straight crime drama with a fair amount of colorful levity.

Still, it does present an intriguing possibility: Iron Man 3 as a buddy cop flick starring Robert Downey Jr. and Don Cheadle?

If there's one duo that can rival Michael Pena and Jake Gyllenhaal as buddy cops in End of Watch, it's Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum in 21 Jump Street.

Meanwhile, Oscar winner Lupita Nyong» o follows up 12 Years a Slave with a role as a chirpy air hostess (boasting a dubious cockney accent), while House of Cards» Corey Stoll pops up as a buddy cop who could have been drafted in from the 1990s.

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang works as a buddy cop picture, a noir, and a straight - up comedy.

The formula that Black continues to use emerges from the subgenre known as buddy cop: from Lethal Weapon to his most recent film, The Nice Guys, the protagonists are a pair of unusual detectives, who are instantly a peculiarity among the unfolding crime story of the film.

Not exact matches

A buddy - cop thriller recast as Dante's sojourn in Hell, this graphic, allusion - littered film stands the conventions of the genre on end — along with the viewer's hair.

Sure, it's basically the «just one last job» moment from literally dozens of buddy cop movies, and it's presaging either Tony's ultimate death (in the as - yet - untitled Avengers 4, arriving in 2019) or his «retirement» to some sort of happy family life, perhaps handing off the Iron Man moniker to someone else.

The plot was so weak and generic, it was exactly the same as Ride Along or Central Intelligence and those wannabe buddy cop movies and the jokes were most of the time childish and forced.

The rare buddy - cop action - comedy to feature female leads (you'll likely have to thank Bridesmaids, which Feig also directed, for that), The Heat stars Sandra Bullock as a no - nonsense FBI agent and Melissa McCarthy as her industry - standard «loose cannon» partner.

The Heat plays with clichés from a long line of mismatched buddy cop comedies, and it's as good as any in the genre's pantheon.

The film, which stars Smith and Joel Edgerton as a human - orc buddy cop duo, is the streaming giant's first attempt a major tentpole release, entering the kind of waters that are normally reserved for traditional studios opening films wide across hundreds of cinema screens.

An enjoyable if rote romp through the buddy cop tropes, with Ryan Reynolds as badass superspy enemies - turned - allies.

The Heat stars Sandra Bullock (Gravity) and Melissa McCarthy (The Hangover Part III) as the most unlikely buddy cop duo to hit the streets of Boston.

Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland, Gangster Squad) has signed on to direct a big screen adaptation of the long - running police reality series COPS, in what is being described as «an edgy narrative with a buddy comedy bent on the order of a Lethal Weapon.»

However, it's somewhat unusual for a buddy cop film to make these tropes textual, not as meta - commentary but solely to be upfront about going through the motions of «story» and «character development.»

Thor: Ragnarok was basically a cosmic buddy - cop outing with Thor and Hulk; Spider - Man: Homecoming heavily featured Iron Man, who served as the web - slinger's mentor; and as for Captain America: Civil War — well, that was basically just Avengers 2.5.

The high - profile buddy - cop comedy pushed Tatum even more into the mainstream, and gave him his third Number One movie as a leading man.

I still haven't really seen anything from the pic that makes it stand out as anything other than a pretty standard buddy cop comedy, but Johnson and Wayans Jr. are very funny guys who have terrific chemistry on New Girl, so hopefully that charisma makes the full feature worthwhile.

Rush Hour 3 (New Line, August 10) Starring: Chris Tucker, Jackie Chan, Hiroyuki Sanada, Youki Kudoh, Max Von Sydow, Noemie Lenoir, Vinnie Jones, Yvan Attel, Roselyn Sanchez, Roman Polanski Director: Brett Ratner Rating: NR The Pitch: Chan and Tucker re-team for the third installment in Ratner's hugely successful (at least as of 1998) buddy - cop series, this time taking the action to Paris.

The sale of deranged buddy cop script «Lethal Weapon» for a quarter of a million dollars, from a 23 - year - old kid who had just graduated UCLA, was the moment Shane Black as we know him today was born.

Well, the pilot suggests possibilities — mostly variations on buddy / cop shows where the partners start off not getting along but having chemistry — but despite the potential for clichés, the chemistry (there's that word again) between Morris Chestnut (as Dr. Beaumont Rosewood Jr.) and Jaina Lee Ortiz (as Detective Karissa Villa) may — I repeat, may — make up for its missteps while the show finds its rhythm.

While far from perfect and falling into the expected predictable and trite storyline we've seen before in dozens of other buddy cop movies, «Ride Along 2» certainly works as a broad comedy.

Maybe its dedication to be as 80s as possible means that it does feel more dated than other examples of buddy cop movies.

ROBBERS STUDIO: Sony Pictures TV and Timberman / Beverly TEAM: Christopher Cook (w, co-ep), Michael Dinner (w, d, ep), Sarah Timberman (ep), Carl Beverly (ep) LOGLINE: Described as being in the literary - noir tradition of Cormac McCarthy's No Country For Old Men, it tells the story of a cop, two «running buddies» on a crime spree across Texas and the girl who becomes the complication in a very unique love triangle.

Shane Black's The Nice Guys hits on so many different levels, it certainly won't come as a surprise if we look back at this as the exact moment the buddy cop flick was awakened from its 30 - year slumber.

With Hot Fuzz, the buddy - cop actioner is joyfully challenged with a hilarious twist of its own, as a small - town cop learns that not everything is as peaceful and calm as it first would appear to be.

«Under The Bridge» by the Red Hot Chili Peppers is heard when recovering addict is shamefully copping, «Sweet Jane» (the narcotic version by the Cowboy Junkies) plays when Nicole shoots heroin, a «With a Little Help From My Friends» soundtracks Whip's buddies giving him another pick - me - up, «Sympathy For The Devil» rocks out ironically after Whip recovers in the emergency room, and tunes like «Feelin» Alright» by Traffic and «Alcohol» by The Barenaked Ladies are employed on the nose as often as possible (curiously, «Cocaine» by Eric Clapton is missing when the blow gets trotted out).

Dax Shepard writes, directs and stars in this buddy cop action comedy based on the»70s T.V. show, co-starring Michael Peña as Ponch.

Similar to «Hot Fuzz» and «Shaun of the Dead,» each of which works as a genre film (buddy cop for «Hot Fuzz» and zombie movie for «Shaun of the Dead») and a send - up of the genre itself, «You're Next» is a smartly devised horror movie masquerading as a really dumb one.

This buddy movie / cop comedy takes its cue from such police - dog stories as «Turner and Hooch» — which it directly references — as well as the 1990 TV pilot «Poochinski,» in which the ghost of a murdered detective ends up inhabiting a gassy English bulldog.

It's taken all of a week for Dinner for Schmucks to be replaced as the funniest movie of the summer, so far — especially because The Other Guys is the unlikeliest of movies — a funny parody of cop / buddy movies.

HOT PURSUIT This grueling buddy flick pairs Reese Witherspoon (better than the material) and Sofia Vergara (terrible) as a klutzy cop and a shrill eyewitness, and the result goes well beyond oil and vinegar — it's more like mustard and Frosted Strawberry Pop - Tarts.

TRAINING DAY (Grade: C --RRB-: In this absurdly brutal and cynical buddy - cop drama, Denzel Washington gives a charismatic performance as a totally corrupt LAPD detective who tries to teach the ways of the street to naive, idealistic rookie Ethan Hawke.

As a comedy it's certainly less effective, never fully convincing as either a pastiche of»70s buddy cop movies or a pitch - black proceduraAs a comedy it's certainly less effective, never fully convincing as either a pastiche of»70s buddy cop movies or a pitch - black proceduraas either a pastiche of»70s buddy cop movies or a pitch - black procedural.

At its simplest, Comrade Detective is a Romanian buddy - cop comedy presented as Cold War - era pro-communist propaganda that is being dubbed into English by A-list voice talent including Channing Tatum, Joseph Gordon - Levitt,...

McCarthy, whose star has risen exponentially since Bridesmaids, can be seen in the upcoming Judd Apatow comedy This Is 40 and is also slated to star alongside Sandra Bullock in an as - yet - unnamed buddy cop comedy.

Rock plays a shade of himself; a quasi-washed-up comedic actor famed as the title role in the critically flattened Hammy the Bear buddy cop films.

While this speaks to the latent homoeroticism in many buddy - cop films, it also makes Danny the vibrant heart whose sheer enthusiasm eventually melts the icy professional Nicholas, and that's an irresistible transformation as played by Pegg.

As was true with zombie films and «Shaun of the Dead,» «Hot Fuzz» isn't so much a satire of the buddy cop genre as it is a fanatical love letteAs was true with zombie films and «Shaun of the Dead,» «Hot Fuzz» isn't so much a satire of the buddy cop genre as it is a fanatical love letteas it is a fanatical love letter.

Then, of course, you have buddy cop comedies like K - 9 that further cemented our view of this breed as both a «police dog» and a hero.