The Other Guys is an incredibly funny comedy that's gleefully stupid and over the top as well as effectively playing with the conventions of buddy cop movies. Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg are perfect together and have perfect chemistry. Dwayne Johnson and Samuel L. Jackson are ridiculously funny together in their brief scenes. Michael Keaton and Steve Coogan are both great. It's consistently funny with plenty of hilarious moments throughout. It's also extremely well paced. Adam McKay's direction is excellent and the action scenes are surprisingly well filmed. The soundtrack is really good.
The Other Guys
2010
Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller
The Other Guys
2010
Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller
Plot summary
Unlike their heroic counterparts on the force, desk-bound NYPD detectives Gamble and Hoitz garner no headlines as they work day to day. When a seemingly minor case turns out to be a big deal, the two cops get the opportunity to finally prove to their comrades that they have the right stuff.
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I tend to have mixed feelings about Will Ferrell films. Ferrell is a likable guy and plays likable characters, but often his films feel a little too much like extended Saturday Night Live sketches; even if they're funny, they just don't have that much to them.
But I love The Other Guys. The premise is unexceptional, a mismatched buddy movie about two undistinguished cops who stumble into a big case, but the movie is wildly funny.
One of the things I love about this movie is how everyone plays it straight. Ferrell is almost as low key here as a cop-accountant as he was in Stranger Than Fiction, and while the movie is often extremely silly, no one in it ever gives a hint that they know it (although Ferrell has a few over-the-top moments that have that SNL cartoonish feel to them that I could have done without). Wahlberg doesn't act like he's making a cop movie parody, he acts like he's making a cop movie. There is a certain odd realism in moments where the heroes pull off something clever or dazzling and take a moment to be impressed with themselves.
Mainly though, this movie is just really, really funny. I could not stop laughing.
A Case That Will Make Them Heroes
The Other Guys in this film are Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg, a pair of NYC detectives who have gotten really far off the fast track in terms of career mobility. Wahlberg while on security duty at Yankee Stadium shot Derek Jeter mistaking him for a an unauthorized prowler, nobody's letting him live that down though I'm sure in Wahlberg's native Boston people were going to name children after him. As for Ferrell he worked before in the highly unglamorous forensic accounting division and one with computer knowledge can gain a detective's shield there. Being a true bureaucrat at heart he delights in doing the paperwork for the other detectives in the squad.
But these two mismatched partners or at least Ferrell given his background get the scent of a massive defrauding scheme when they spot a Bernie Madoff type tycoon being kidnapped. Later on it's denied and the tycoon played by Steve Coogan shows up all hale and hearty and in a forgiving, but put out mood. The more they pursue this, the more warnings they get to back off, some of them real direct like a bomb going off at a mall account's office in New Jersey.
Still our heroes persist and in the end the case will make them the hero of every cop in New York City. More I cannot say, but it will make up for shooting the Yankee captain.
Ferrell is funny as always and Wahlberg has done comedy before and done it well. Eva Mendes is Mrs. Ferrell and it bugs Wahlberg no end how such a nerdy guy like Ferrell can land Eva Mendes as a life partner. Let's say that he's got a lot in his background as well, not typical for an accountant, but in a former line of work Ferrell was in you have to keep good accounts as well.
Nice location cinematography in New York make The Other Guys something to enjoy and realize that heroes can come from the oddest places.