'The Other Guys'

I believe that comedies, especially the spoofs and satires, have gone way down hill compared to the 'Airplane!' and Mel Brooks days ('Blazing Saddles', 'Spaceballs', 'Young Frankenstein'). I don't think the 'Scary Movie' franchise helped at all. Top all that off with the "Epic, Diaster, Date, Superhero, Meet the Spartans, Vampires Suck" movies that became unwatchable and embarrassing and you have the spoof movies of the last decade. Adam McKay took a stab at the buddy cop comedy and really made it work. 'The Other Guys' takes a good mix of action cop movies ('Bad Boys', 'Lethal Weapon') and crosses them with the spoof comedies of the 80's and 90's ('The Naked Gun' and 'Police Academy' series, 'Loaded Weapon') to immerge as this hilarious "Quote" machine that will be talked about for a long time. Will Ferrell and I have a love/hate relationship. I love it when he's in a role and he doesn't have to take the reigns and lead the whole time. He has been so much more successful being able to bounce off other actors ('Old School', 'Land of the Lost', 'The Other Guys') as opposed to having to be the only big laugh in a film ('Kicking and Screaming', 'Bewitched', 'Semi-Pro'). I think you will be surprised by who you end up laughing at in this film. McKay was able to pull together some really talented actors that you may not expect to be super funny and they really pulled it off. While 'The Other Guys' excells in laughs, it does lack a bit in story (you'll be laughing so hard sometimes you'll forget what the story even is). This is a fun movie to set back and lose yourself in. I know I'll have to check it out again because the jokes are so fast and furious that there's no way you can catch them all in one viewing. Be sure to check out Adam McKay's cameo as Dirty Mike, it's pretty good. Enjoy. End result is 3 1/2 out of 5.