Sentences with phrase «buddy cop movie»

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

It's the ultimate buddy cop movie except for one thing: they're not cops.

It's a really solid buddy cop movie, anyone who loves the genre will definitely like this.

Why it's worth watching: Imagine your favourite buddy cop movie.

While a female buddy cop movie sounds like the perfect pitch idea for them, I just wish this script would have been better.

It's a parody of buddy cop movies with Ferrell and Wahlberg playing a pair of New York police detectives, one of whom prefers to play it safe and fill out paperwork all day, while the other yearns to be out on the street in the middle of the action.

To coincide with the release of The Nice Guys, Kieran Fisher recommends 10 other buddy cop movies worth checking out... This weekend marks the release of Shane Black's new film The Nice Guys, starring Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe as a law enforcement duo investigating a missing persons case.

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.

Mostly because it's a cheesy, forgettable buddy cop movie that jumped off of the Lethal Weapon wagon.

If you're reluctant to give Hill full credit for making buddy cop movies a thing, then Akira Kurosawa's Stray Dog might be the best evidence of the category's existence pre-48 Hours.

With The Nice Guys hitting cinemas, here are eight memorable buddy cop movies — featuring law enforcers paired with dogs, aliens and accountants — to get you in the mood.

David Ayer's Bright is a fantasy buddy cop movie that leaves its audience with more questions than it answers.

However, because the «Ride Along» films are essentially buddy cop movies, it's possible to make a sequel that manages to create that lightning in a bottle the second time around.

Akira Kurosawa's police procedural is one of the earliest buddy cop movies.

Spike Lee's upcoming buddy cop movie based on the story of a black police officer infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan now has its first movie trailer.

Vikram Murthi writes about John Michael McDonagh's nihilistic new buddy cop movie «War on Everyone» in this week's critic - at - large column.

This is basically the logline of most classic buddy cop movies we were raised on.

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

The beauty of the F&F franchise is that it started out as a shitty Point Break ripoff, got ironically good (with Part 2 being a hilariously unintentionally homoerotic buddy cop movie), and morphed into being genuinely awesome by Parts 5 and 6.

The Nice Guys is quite possibly the best buddy cop movie since the original Lethal Weapon.

Unhinged, like a rabid dog running around that you still have the urge to pet, this anti-hero buddy cop movie has cult status written all over it, giving us a good hard look at the funny side of Alexander Skarsgard and reminding us that Michael Pena is a comedic national treasure.

Presumably, Showtime set out to mock the standard buddy cop movie.

The game also has a great 70's buddy cop movie aesthetic, much like the movie Starsky and Hutch or The Driver.

The action comedy Let's Be Cops is the ultimate buddy cop movies, except for the fact that they're not actually cops.

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.

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.

Giamatti's Marty, visiting the set of one of his pictures, witnesses a sequence from a buddy cop movie being filmed.

But, at it's core, the film is nothing more than the latest in the long line of Hollywood's tried and true formula: the buddy cop movie.

Not normally my type film but its a good buddy - buddy cop movie that's nothing more than light entertainment and works well, for what it is.

What You Need To Know: «Bridesmaids» director Paul Feig brings it back to the»80s with this buddy cop movie, pairing straight - laced Sandra Bullock with live - wire Melissa McCarthy.

It's entirely possible that Shelton and co-writer Jerry Stahl (Permanent Midnight) intended to do the same for Bad Boys II by turning in an ordinary buddy cop movie but making it so violent and repugnant that the buddy cop movie genre would finally keel over and expire.

All this ought to make for a refreshingly new twist on the buddy cop movie, but instead it is just a confusing mess.

The movie: Channeling the best elements of every buddy cop movie and crafting something wholly unique, Shane Black's action comedy noir is simply one of the funniest flicks of recent years.

You get peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, breakfast stouts, snowboarding, candied apples, USB outlets, Freddy vs. Jason, and, perhaps most importantly, buddy cop movies.

Yes, it's a buddy cop movie and (no surprise) there are two men with very different perspectives who are eventually stuck together in a police car.

By the time the credits roll, this Ride Along arrives at the conclusion you would expect from a buddy cop movie starring a former musician controversially known for his violent lyrics.

I suspect the inspiration for this film may have been the Seth Rogen / James Franco action - comedy Pineapple Express, and with any luck this will be the start of a whole new wave of comedic action flicks and buddy cop movies.

The early 90s were oversaturated with buddy cop movies and sequels (still true today a little bit).

Black helped reinvigorate and pioneer the buddy cop movie with the first two «Lethal Weapon» films and «The Last Boy Scout,» amongst others, and seems to be back in that groove with a movie that looks like «Inherent Vice» meets, well, «Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.»

Despite its unique approach, make no mistake — this is a buddy cop movie.

Hollywood Homicide is nothing new in the world of buddy cop movies.

Rounding up all the usual elements for a buddy cop movie, R.I.P.D. plays out pretty much by the book.

It's a throwback to the buddy cop movies of the 1970s that remains too true to its title that it essentially becomes a war on the audience, who stare on in confusion as the film's protagonists go all «Bad Santa» on Albuquerque's criminal underbelly.

In The Guard (2011)-- a very Irish take on the buddy cop movie — a dream cast anchored by the ever - reliable Brendan Gleeson wryly articulates a tale of underestimation and police corruption.

You don't walk in to see a buddy cop movie starring Dax Shepard and Michael Peña with high expectations.

Disney could have easily settled for a buddy cop movies with animals, but instead allowed the script to naturally evolve and survive the rewriting process.