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Although the comedy team of Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg does not sound like a threat to Laurel and Hardy or Abbott and Costello, they conjure up consistent laughs in The Other Guys, yet another comedy from Talladega Nights director Adam McKay. Ferrell plays a mild-mannered police accountant partnered with Wahlberg's hothead (recently demoted to desk-jockey duty after shooting a very famous Yankee player during the World Series), and both men must endure the showboating fame of a pair of supercops (Samuel L. Jackson and Dwayne Johnson) in their New York City precinct house. Along with sending up cop-movie clichés, the movie basically exists to give Ferrell and Wahlberg room to work amusing variations on their characters (with grace notes for Michael Keaton's stereotypical tough captain, too). The loosey-goosey structure works especially well when Wahlberg is needling his partner's squareness or marveling, in wonderfully awestruck tones, at the unbelievable hot-i-tude of Ferrell's wife (Eva Mendes)--a discrepancy made all the more maddening because Ferrell seems indifferent to her charms. Throw in a plot about a billionaire Wall Street crook (Steve Coogan) and the revelation of Ferrell's hilariously dark past, and the movie finds a nice zone of silliness. Of course, any Will Ferrell vehicle must be judged by the opportunities for the star to launch into some borderline-surreal riff--and happily, this film comes through. From the moment Ferrell begins deconstructing Wahlberg's lion versus tuna metaphor, The Other Guys manages to find time for such nonsense, and the film--the world in general, for that matter--is the better for it. --Robert Horton
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This review is from: The Other Guys (Unrated, 2 discs) Bilingual Blu-Ray/ Combo Pack (Blu-ray)
First off this movie is made by Adam McKay the creator or Anchor Man, I didn't know that going in. Now the movie was silly funny and sometimes had some crazy odd things happen, but man it was funny and I enjoyed it.So the plot is you got Marky Mark an angry cop who wants more time doing detective work and Will Ferrell a cop who does all of the Paperwork for the super cop team of Sam Jackson and The Rock. After an accident occurs they are forced to step up their game and become real cops. There was some serious stupid moments in the movie but it was made up for by some hilarious moments. And there were some amazing one liners that I could not remember based on the fact we were laughing so much. The casting in this movie really worked. Everyone was really funny, even Michael Keaton was just awesome. The pacing was on the top of it's game and there were some running jokes that actually worked really well. For a comedy I can't say it was the funniest this summer I really enjoyed Get Him To The Greek but hands down this is number two. The other guys has some good action (for a comedy) great laughs and the perfect cast. This was a fun time, see it; Recommended.
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