The Other Guys

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River P The Other Guys is a very solid buddy cop action comedy. I love the movie. Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg worked decently together as partners. Their jobs are being detectives for the New York police department. Michael Keaton had a lot of fun in his role as the boss who purposely quotes TLC songs. And, the bit with Samuel L. Jackson and Dwayne Johnson were entertaining. I like that one moment where they think they’re super heroes and they jump off the building with the foo fighters song my hero playing. Of course they are slowly descending and they crash to the street. That was very hilarious. I do have a couple nitpicks. I do think some of the lines were a bit unnecessary. And, there probably could’ve been a little bit more action in the second half of the movie. Other than those nitpicks, The Other Guys is such a good flick. Overall, I do quite like the film. One of my top favorite action comedies with a lot of good laughs and several action set pieces that are pretty solid. A fun and entertaining movie. Not perfect, but it’s a lot of fun. My favorite film with Will Ferrell and second favorite with Mark Wahlberg. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/08/25 Full Review Audience Member A pretty solid action buddy comedy that brings some decent things to the table Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 06/07/25 Full Review Audience Member Even though silly and dumb as the outrageous comedy bits are, quite a few of them actually hit the funny bone pretty hard. The Ferrell/Wahlberg team-up chemistry is pure gold, thrown in with some car dogging humor, a Police Captain that quotes a 90's R&B group for encouragement and this film turns into a comedy diamond in the rough. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 06/06/25 Full Review Michele D This movie is gold. Had no expecations, laughed so hard. Really smart jokes too and unexpected turns. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/03/25 Full Review Blu B A Classic Buddy Cop Flick. This is a love letter to the cliches of the buddy cop genre, but as much as it wants to be a salute to the regular heroes of the NYPD, this also functions as a commentary and subtle satire of the 08' Great Recession if not more so. (the gags kind of get in the way of any serious love letter for "Other Guys") It's kind of shocking how many subtle nods there are to the players involved. The SEC, Wall Street itself, the after credits, references to all the former corrupt fallen angel companies, and the whole symbolism of the two main characters in a sense. It's very much a product of a post 08' world. Acting is really good here. Whalberg & Ferrall got great chemistry and are your typical odd couple. Johnson & Jackson are amazing and it's a shame they are not in much of this at all. They should've really done a prequel of how those two met as a follow up. Everyone else is really good too mainly because there given really good humor. The humor gets great laughs the entire time. The music is really good too and also gets plenty of laughs from the song choices used. Everything else is solid about it. The action scenes are really good, over the top, and funny because f it. The setting of NYC is also really memorable too with lots of on location areas. One fault with this is there aren't that many visual jokes in this. Some of the shaky cam in the start is really distracting in what would be an amazing scene. The actual financial scheme plot is...alright. It's a bit difficult to follow but I kind of get the general idea. The humor REALLY carries this in the middle when the ho hum plot just kind of prods along until the next action scene which there suprisingly isn't that much of for long stretches. I mean theres the opening with Jackson & The Rock but after that it really dies down and focuses on setting up the plot, humor, and the buddy cop dynamic. It can get a bit jumpy too fitting in the personal drama of the two with the story and the laughs but again the fact it's 90% really funny and got solid direction to boot helps A LOT. Anyone who is a fan of any actors in this, buddy cop movies, the director, or 00's comedies will like this. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 04/08/25 Full Review Ryland C Funny and exciting. I always love a good ass cop movie with a fun case to solve. Good stuff. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/11/25 Full Review Read all reviews

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