Sentences with phrase «buddy cop movies»

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Not exact matches

The buddy - cop film, with elements of «Lord of the Rings» - style fantasy, only got positive reviews from 12 % of top movie critics on Rotten Tomatoes.

After years making slick commercials and music videos, Bay's first feature film didn't just bring a new spice to the buddy - cop movie with the teaming of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence.

Linebackers Steve Ache and Jeff Paine were in the NFL in the same year but not on the same defense, and thus never inspired the Stallone & Van Damme buddy - cop movie Ache & Paine that we're still pining to see.

The movie sends J to the summer of 1969, but its by - now familiar buddy - cop dynamic and Will Smith's dated catchphrases have us longing for 1997, when the Men in Black first battled the scum of the universe.

I hope their next movie is a buddy comedy in which they play cops who get mixed up in a wacky banana heist or something.

A boring, all - you - can - regurgitate buffet of buddy - movie / cop - movie banality, «The Man» would collapse under the weight of...

In a year where we had some pretty cool and unusual things happening in mainstream cinema (an animated «princess» movie where the most important relationship was between two sisters, a space thriller whose face was a middle - aged woman, a high - grossing action movie starring a young woman, a sci - fi blockbuster where 2/3 leads were NOT white men, a female buddy - cop movie), this just seems....

Boyega and Eastwood's buddy cop banter, along with Day's over-the-top performance add to the movie's charm.

This isn't a self - aware buddy - cop - action movie.

It's simply a buddy - cop - action movie, and a pretty derivative and annoying one at that.

It's a buddy - cop movie in which the cops seem like they'd be better off not being buddies, and a fish - out - of - water story in which Cheadle's unfailingly professional fish never learns how to breathe the air of his hostile new surroundings.

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.

It looks like we can add Lethal Weapon to the ever - growing list of movies getting the small screen treatment, with Fox giving a pilot order to Warner Bros. for a TV adaptation of the hit buddy cop franchise.

The cast and crew of «2 Guns,» including stars Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg, discuss the humor prevalent throughout the action movie's script and taking a different approach to the traditional buddy cop trope.

The Buzz: I'm not a huge Ferrell fan, but I always enjoy a buddy - cop movie.

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are officially reuniting for the action - packed buddy - cop movie Bad Boys for Life, Entertainment Weekly reports.

Following the critical success of Good Time, The Safdie Brothers have been busily capitalising on their moment, directing a music video for Jay Z and announcing that they will be remaking classic «buddy cop» movie 48 Hours.

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.

The Ringer's Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan team up to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the original buddy - cop movie, 1982's «48 Hrs.»

Being a buddy - cop movie that knows it's a buddy - cop movie simply is not enough.

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.