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Other Guys, The

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Other Guys, The reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Action  |  Comedy

Written by: Chris Henchy
Adam McKay

Directed by: Adam McKay

Release Date:
Theatrical: August 6, 2010

Running Time: minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: PG-13 for crude and sexual content, language, violence and some drug material

Starring Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes, Michael Keaton, Steve Coogan, Ray Stevenson, Samuel L. Jackson, and Dwayne Johnson

The Other Guys follows Detective Allen Gamble , a forensic accountant who's more interested in paperwork than hitting the streets, and Detective Terry Hoitz, who has been stuck with Allen as his partner ever since an embarrassing public incident with his quick trigger finger. Allen and Terry idolize the city's top cops, Danson and Manzetti, but when an opportunity arises for the Other Guys to step up, things don't quite go as planned. (Sony Pictures)

What The Critics Said

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91

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

It's a comedy of manhood for the age of emasculation.

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88

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Joe Williams

The funniest movie of the year.

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83

Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell

The Other Guys finds McKay back to trying something wildly ambitious with his comedy, and largely succeeding.

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83

St. Petersburg Times Steve Persall

This summer's funniest movie.

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83

The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias

Great casting takes The Other Guys most of the way: Ferrell draws a wealth of good material from his character’s oddball ineffectuality, and he partners perfectly with Wahlberg, who’s always best at his most incredulous.

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80

The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen

Nimbly blending comedy and action -- with an affectionate slo-mo nod to John Woo -- McKay does his best work to date here.

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80

Movieline Stephanie Zacharek

The Other Guys isn’t easy to peg. It’s not a comedy that loosens you up and mellows you out; it works by needling you progressively into a state of anxiety.

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75

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

At its core, a perceptive satire of the interpersonal boiling points in buddy-cop pictures.

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75

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

Ferrell is effortlessly uproarious. And watching hardass Wahlberg, in his first starring shot at farce, shake his sillies out is not to be missed.

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75

ReelViews James Berardinelli

The film's first 15 minutes are by far the most fun (and could be the best quarter-hour of any movie released this year), with Samuel L. Jackson and The Rock letting it all hang out.

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75

Miami Herald Connie Ogle

So hilarious that even longtime Ferrell haters (me) can't resist it.

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70

Chicago Reader Joshua Katzman

Michael Keaton is a stitch as an emasculated police captain moonlighting as a retail store manager.

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70

Arizona Republic Randy Cordova

A surprising, laugh-out-loud take on the old buddy-cop genre. It's sneaky and smartly funny, offering an almost perfect balance of action and comedy. That's the good news. Then there's the matter of the movie's disheartening final 25 minutes.

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70

Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir

It's a mixed bag with plenty of gags that fall flat, not a comic masterpiece. But it's got tremendous zing, a sense of mischief and a big heart, more than enough to mark it as a delicious shot of caffeinated ice cream, and the summer season's funniest comedy.

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70

Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

It's loud, raunchy, semicoherent and stuffed to the bursting point with heavy weaponry and car chases, most of which involve a red, cocaine-covered Prius that's been pressed into service as a police car. But Adam McKay's comedy of chaos, which he wrote with Chris Henchy, can also be very funny.

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70

Time Richard Corliss

Like some silly summer song that can't be shaken from the mind, this is a catchy enterprise, no better than it tries to be and no less funny.

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70

Los Angeles Times Betsy Sharkey

Here the filmmakers are in fine fettle, which goes a long way to make much of the low-brow silliness and slapstick infectious.

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63

USA Today Claudia Puig

Like a padded "Saturday Night Live" sketch. What would have been very funny for 15 minutes, and pretty funny for 45, doesn't maintain the standard over the course of a feature-length film.

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63

Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan

For the most part, The Other Guys is seriously silly stuff, in the best sense.

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63

New Orleans Times-Picayune Mike Scott

As with most Ferrell projects, there's nothing profound going on in The Other Guys. It's just a bit of good, stupid fun, had at the expense of an uber-formulaic genre that has long been ripe for the spoofing. But it also works.

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63

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

For a good hour, this is the picture Kevin Smith was trying to make with "Cop Out."

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63

Orlando Sentinel Roger Moore

It’s amusingly off-the-wall, but entirely too cluttered to come together.

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60

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

Wahlberg is surprisingly committed to the ridiculousness.

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60

Time Out New York David Fear

The film, meanwhile, gives Wahlberg and Ferrell beautiful opportunities to turn their anger-mismanagement-meets-milquetoast act into an absurdist version of Abbott and Costello.

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60

Boxoffice Magazine Amy Nicholson

It's dumb and consistently funny.

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50

Variety Peter Debruge

The laughs ultimately take a backseat to a convoluted white-collar crime story.

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50

Village Voice Nick Pinkerton

Following the clues, The Other Guys turns more hectic than antic, and somebody didn’t pack enough comedy for this long trip.

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50

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

Opens strongly and front-loads its best gags into the first third of the film. After that, the jokes begin to repeat themselves, and the plot becomes mired in unintelligible details of the white-collar crime.

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50

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

There's a fine line between stupid comedy that's actually pretty smart and stupid comedy that's just dumb, and The Other Guys crosses the line - into realms of unredeeming dunderheadedness - more often than it should.

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50

New York Post Kyle Smith

Starts out as a hilarious take on cop-movie cliches, then turns into Will Ferrell’s own “Capitalism: A Love Story.”

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50

The New York Times A.O. Scott

Raises expectations that it has no real inclination to fulfill. The movie’s best bits would stand alone nicely on YouTube, or on Funnyordie.com, the comic video boutique of which Mr. McKay is an owner and where he sometimes dabbles in short-form hilarity.

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50

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey

Have you ever seen a movie you half-liked a lot?

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50

Slate Josh Levin

The Other Guys actually suffers by comparison to its own madcap opening sequence.

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50

San Francisco Chronicle Amy Biancolli

A typical vehicle for Ferrell's atypical humor.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 6.2 (out of 10) based on 53 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Cirticsareway toocritical gave it an8:
You know what? There is one twist in this movie that will kick your ass! It is so hilarious, crazy, silly and awesome that you won't believe what happened. Fairly funny all the way through, The whole theater I was in, laughing through the whole movie. Whalburgs anger, and Farrels straight guy pimp turn really add a little something missing in these movies. The best treat though, Micheal Keaton. Soooo funny. Woulda given the movie a 9 but it beats you to death with an ignorant and irrelevant "lets all hate wall street" vibe that gets annoying, especially at the end. Gonna be a great movie to have around on Blu ray, kind of like Taladega nights, anchorman, dumb and dumber, etc for those sick, or rainy days. I gotta admit, I think I am over Farrels Shtick, I find he is quite a bit better when he reduces his persona... but he redeemed himself in this one. Maybe we can get a sequel with Andy Samburg as Marky Marks evil twin, that would be epic. "... hey dog, you're a dog, what's that about? Say Hi to your mother for me!" bahahaha awesome.

Aaron G gave it a7:
It's not amazing, but it's definitely a fun movie. Plot is dumb,but the jokes deliver.

ken D gave it an8:
I laughed along with the rest of the audience. A great team up putting Will Ferell and to my surprise Mark Whlberg. I didn't think it was going as good as it was. It's on of my "To buy" when it hits DVD list!

Bill C. gave it a5:
The jokes are the kind that you have to force yourself to laugh at , and the stunts are too over the top to be believed. O.K. , it had a few good laughs , but my expectations were much higher. The talent was up there , but the story was just lame.

tom s gave it a1:
I was hoping for Anchorman but got Anchored Men. It's got a good wacky set up, but like a potentially great joke with a lousy punchline, it fails. The writing/improv was outrageous and different, but more silly than humorous or insightful. I laughed some, but I realized I was forcing some of the laughs because I wanted to enjoy this movie more than I did.

Miles R gave it a5:
I was concerned about the wide variation in ratings, which made me wonder whether this movie would even be worth the price of a matinee ticket. Rest assured, the exciting and creative action sequences end within the first 15 minutes of the film. Overall, the plot of the film is lukewarm and uncreative. Of course, the major concern with a film such as this one is the comedy. There were a handful of funny scenes, but nothing that will cause you to have a sore abdomen in the morning.

Glenn P gave it an8:
This was a VERY funny movie. The problem is that it is so intelligently written that it goes over the heads of a lot of the audience. Trust me, if you like intelligent humor, you'll REALLY enjoy this movie.

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