Are old
guy buddy comedies becoming Hollywood's version of retirement living?
Not exact matches
Blue collar
comedy rules the roost with this hilarious farce starring Larry the Cable
Guy, Bill Engvall and D.J. Qualls as
buddies who are mistaken for Army Reservists and sent to the Middle East - but when they are accidentally dropped into Mexico, they misread the situation and set about trying to «liberate» a besieged village from a demented drug lord.
Opening this weekend,
buddy - cop action -
comedy The Other
Guys stars a pair of actors caught in a mid-career slump.
He is best known for his roles as Deputy White House Chief of Staff Josh Lyman on the NBC television drama The West Wing, as Danny Tripp on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, as Dan Stark in the Fox police
buddy -
comedy The Good
Guys, as Red John in the CBS series The Mentalist, and as antagonist Eric Gordon in the film Billy Madison.
Miss Congeniality shows up The Other
Guys in this riotously funny
buddy - cop
comedy, which overcomes...
Director Adam McKay made his disgust with the industry responsible for the 2008 financial crisis crystal clear in The Other
Guys, a
buddy action
comedy that ended with a number of charts and figures bemoaning bankers» reckless, largely unregulated, entirely self - serving practices,
The last time Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell teamed up, it resulted in the mostly satisfying
buddy cop
comedy The Other
Guys.
We look at this month's films (according to UK release dates), which include Shane Black's detective
buddy comedy The Nice
Guys, Studio Ghibli's animated drama When Marnie Was There, and the Australian adaptation of Timothy Conigrave's memoir Holding the Man.
Miss Congeniality shows up The Other
Guys in this riotously funny
buddy - cop
comedy, which overcomes its silly script with the ingenious pairing of Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy.
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.
The
buddy action
comedy isn't always tried and true, and we've already seen a plethora of them this year including Hart's Ride Along 2, Keanu, and The Nice
Guys.
With The Hangover, it looks like he has taken the frat
comedy to its next logical step: a
guy who is about to get married falling back into a mess of drunken antics with his
buddies the night before.
The Nice
Guys (R for violence, profanity, sexuality, nudity and brief drug use) Unlikely -
buddies crime
comedy, set in L.A. in» 77, about a pair of private eyes (Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe) who grudgingly join forces to investigate a fading porn star's apparent suicide.
Though Rudd goes out of his way to show off his revamped Ant - Man costume and a glimpse of a
guy unloading a truck on the set of Ant - Man and the Wasp, he solely gets questions related to I Love You, Man, his 2009
buddy -
comedy with Jason Segel.
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.
Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg are re-teaming for a
comedy called Daddy's Home.The actors previously starred in
buddy cop film The Other
Guys in...
Before that, he's sporting a Ron Burgundy - ish handlebar moustache in the hilariously funny 1970s - set
buddy comedy «The Nice
Guys», playing a crap private detective whose precocious daughter might be better at solving crimes than he is.
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.
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.
A gritty, cynical, hilarious, and mostly satisfying bit of L.A. noir, Shane Black's The Nice
Guys sees the bad boy writer - director make a slick return to his signature brand of
buddy action
comedy.
A more accurate description of Sol Goode would be a dating
comedy in the tradition of Swingers, which was also about one
guy's attempt to become part of the Hollywood scene while struggling to find a meaningful relationship, while barhopping with his kooky
buddies.