Sentences with phrase «buddy cop comedy»

Arriving in theaters everywhere today is the new buddy cop comedy from Will Ferrell and director Adam McKay called The Other Guys, this time featuring a face we haven't seen in the comedy world in a while - Mark Wahlberg.

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.

WHY: The first «Ride Along» was a derivative buddy cop comedy that's only saving grace was the onscreen chemistry between Ice Cube and Kevin Hart, so it's disappointing that the sequel manages to squander that partnership by resorting to the same joke over and over again.

In the first female driven buddy cop comedy, the actresses proved that women characters don't need a man to help them thrive in their careers and relationships; Ashburn and Mullins succeeded in their decision to work together stop a dangerous city drug lord from further killing anyone else he perceived to be a threat.

The last time Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell teamed up, it resulted in the mostly satisfying buddy cop comedy The Other Guys.

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.

Alexander Skarsgård and Michael Peña put the «blue» and «line» in thin blue line in this salty buddy cop comedy.

When the director of a gentle indie character study — even one joshingly praised as «mumblecore with a plot» by certain critics — cheerfully tells you that his next project is more of a «werewolf buddy cop comedy,» you could be forgiven for expecting a thick veil of irony to cover the remark.

Typically this type of recycled, formulaic, slapstick buddy cop comedy would just make me nauseous.

From Warner Home Entertainment comes buddy cop comedy, Central Intelligence.

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.

Based on early word of mouth, Lord and Miller successfully created a wicked funny buddy cop comedy.

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.

is a 2 - player buddy cop comedy horror arcade game that follows the story of Reggie and Kenny — two disco - loving cops who must save their city from a zombie outbreak with their ultimate handy dandy weapon... slapping!

In fact it's a black comedy mixed with a buddy cop comedy, so it does make you laugh a bit, but with a combination like that you have to be careful.

It takes tropes you learned from the show fits them into a tight - fitting, buddy cop comedy that holds little back in the way of R - rated humor.

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

«Sporadically fun but clunky, well - intentioned but rarely powerful,» one wrote critic wrote of Disney's buddy cop comedy

It's as if co-writers David Feeney and John Quaintance watched every buddy cop comedy from the 1980s and 90s and recycled their favorite moments by reversing the gender identities without bothering to update them for present day.

Like an eerie riff on a buddy cop comedy, the pair are almost helplessly pulled from that short - lived retirement for one last job.

Back in the long ago days of 2012, the idea of Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum teaming up for a buddy cop comedy adaptation of the»80s television series 21 Jump Street seemed like an absurd idea destined for failure, and the movie right away poked fun at the lack of originality in its concept along with the industry trend at large of adapting old series.

Calling back to the cop action flicks of the 80s, this should have been the theatrical poster for Paul Feig's buddy cop comedy, but it wasn't given nearly enough prominence in the marketing campaign despite being the best poster created for the film starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy.

Lord and Miller were reportedly so busy making «The LEGO Movie» that they didn't have time to do script revisions on the buddy cop comedy, and that was a major oversight on their part, because «22 Jump Street» is a fitfully funny sequel that lacks the surprise factor of its predecessor.

It's a clever set - up for a buddy cop comedy.

If Muppets Most Wanted were a buddy cop comedy, it'd be one of the better ones in recent memory.

Both are good on their own and together they make an interesting combo, at the very least — and that's how I'd rank the previous Ferrell / Wahlberg joint, the buddy cop comedy The Other Guys.

Feig's other recent films include the buddy cop comedy The Heat starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy, which grossed over $ 220 million globally and the hit comedy Bridesmaids starring Kristen Wiig, Rose Byrne, Maya Rudolph, Melissa McCarthy and Jon Hamm, that grossed over $ 283 million worldwide.