Sentences with phrase «of 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.

Hollywood Homicide is nothing new in the world of 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.»

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.

Taylor and Zavala fit the template of the «cop buddy movie,» but «End of Watch» goes so much deeper than that.

By the end of the movie Let's Be Cops does take a turn toward the absurd and at times goes completely over-the-top unbelievable, but I laughed out loud enough times to say that it was an enjoyable buddy comedy.

Similar to «Hot Fuzz» and «Shaun of the Dead,» each of which works as a genre film (buddy cop for «Hot Fuzz» and zombie movie for «Shaun of the Dead») and a send - up of the genre itself, «You're Next» is a smartly devised horror movie masquerading as a really dumb one.

It's a slow burn of a buddy cop thriller that sticks to the most basic of action movie clichés, entirely ignoring the CGI and overzealous plotting of the last twenty years of big - budget cinema.

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.

The king of the 1980s buddy - cop movie, writer - director Shane Black crafted the screenplays for Lethal Weapon and The Last Boy Scout before falling into a slump, rebounding impressively in recent years with the cult hit Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and then directing and co-writing Iron Man 3.

It's taken all of a week for Dinner for Schmucks to be replaced as the funniest movie of the summer, so far — especially because The Other Guys is the unlikeliest of movies — a funny parody of cop / buddy movies.

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.

Whereas Shaun twisted and made light of the zombie genre, Hot Fuzz pokes fun at the cop buddy movie made so famous by movies like «Lethal Weapon» and «Rush Hour.»

A boring, all - you - can - regurgitate buffet of buddy - movie / cop - movie banality, «The Man» would collapse under the weight of its own generic stupidity if it weren't for the screen presence of Samuel L. Jackson and Eugene Levy.Continuity - blind director Lee...

The buddy - cop movie» 2 Guns» is surprisingly fun, and Fox re-issues the film that defined multiple personalities forever, «The Three Faces of Eve,» in a beautiful Blu - ray transfer.

Having thoroughly sent up, worked over, and skewered zombie movies (Shaun of the Dead) and buddy - cop action pics (Hot Fuzz), it makes sense that writer / director Edgar Wright and his crew - Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and a scrum of like - minded Brits - would fix their sights on another well - trod genre.

Setting the standard for cop buddy movies for years to come, Lethal Weapon may not have revolutionized the genre, but definitely proves to be an exceptionally efficient example of how the formula can work when the star chemistry is just right.

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.

In terms of sound, the soundtrack for The Chase Begins matches the Wii U version with some very upbeat, cheesy tunes that you'd find in a buddy cop action movie from the 80s and 90s.