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.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.
Like an eerie riff on a
buddy cop comedy, the pair are almost helplessly pulled
from that short - lived retirement for one last job.
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.
Hart and Cube tread no new ground in this routine
buddy comedy, which will invite comparisons to films like The Other Guys,
Cop Out, and Pineapple Express
from myopic moviegoers.
Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart team up for this
buddy -
cop comedy from the director of We're the Millers.
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.
From Warner Home Entertainment comes
buddy cop comedy, Central Intelligence.
Check out the latest casting additions below: Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans, Jr., both seen in New Girl pilot, will re-team once again for the
buddy comedy Let's Be
Cops from director Luke Greenfield (The Girl Next Door).