The Other Guys (2010)

Did you ever notice that in many cop-movies, and series, there is "another" team. They're often sub-par at their job, they make very bad jokes and they are always petty enough to grin foolishly when the good cops get yelled at by their captain. Perhaps you thought it would be interesting to make a full feature about that pair? Well, someone did. And boy howdy, were they ever wrong.

If this film proves anything at all, it is that the other guys really are douches. And 107 minutes of two protagonists without redeeming features, really is a concept very few would be foolish enough to make. Ferrell is at his most annoying, taking elements from his brilliant turn in "Stranger than Fiction" making you hate him just a little bit more. Wahlberg on the other hand is so awful it begs belief he has ever been able to do quality comedy (like Ted). He is quite simply a jerk, obnoxious and irrational without it ever being amusing.

When reading the script to BASEketball, Trey Parker reportedly sighed "We're gonna need a lot of jokes to pull this off". As is the case here. Only the jokes are not funny. At all. The best joke by far compares a Toyota Prius to a vagina, and quite frankly Penn&Teller's Bullshit had better jokes on that area. And they're skeptics and magicians.

Furthermore, you know you're in trouble when Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson has the best line of the movie. He dies early on anyway, taking a Samuel L. Jackson with him in his most dire performance to date. I hope he got very well paid.

Other than that, there are some decent set-pieces, a few explosions and a very predictable Mexican stand-off as well as some unnecessary cameos from actors that should know better (Michael Keaton) and some who really deserve this tripe (Eva Mendes, Rosie Perez).

In one of the scenes Ferrell tells Wahlberg: "I'm tired of you getting angry and yelling all the time. It's exhausting". Yes it is, Ferrell. Like this whole experience.

2/10