Movie Review: The Other Guys

Directed by: Adam McKay
Starring: Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg

Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell both star in one of this year's comedies, The Other Guys, bad humor and all. Maybe it was the unexpected pairing of the two, or maybe it was the fact that we've never seen Mark Wahlberg in an action-comedy like this one. Either way, it didn't work out.

Wahlberg and Ferrell star as two detectives, Terry Hoitz and Allen Gamble, in New York City who replace former star detectives of the city (Dwayne Johnson and Samuel L. Jackson)--we won't spoil why they're replaced, but it was definitely a twist. They do what they can to catch criminals who have stolen from a billionaire businessman in Gamble's small Pruis, which Hoitz says resembles a vagina. In the meantime, Gamble is carrying around a wooden gun because his real gun is revoked after he shoots it off in the office as a joke.

So basically, the movie's plot is Hoitz and Gamble chasing around thieves in The Big Apple while making a fool of themselves and pretending they're cooler than they really are.

We told you the movie was a letdown.

Of course the movie has it's funny parts--we'll give it that. Eva Mendez plays Ferrell's wife, whom he mistreats and calls boring and plain--all while she's at his beck and call. And then there's Michael Keaton who plays the chief and admits he has a second job working at Bed Bath and Beyond. He does this just to support his son who's in college and will just end up being a DJ while trying to figure out if he's bisexual.

So although The Other Guys had it's funny parts, it still left us wondering why we cared that a billionaire had his money stolen. Or why our eyes were beginning to glaze over. Or why we were playing on our phone rather than watching the movie.

Don't even wait until it hits your city's local Redbox. Just don't see it at all.

Katie Cervantes

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