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Other Guys, The
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Generally favorable reviews
Based on 34 critic 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)
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What The Critics Said
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
It's a comedy of manhood for the age of emasculation.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell
The Other Guys finds McKay back to trying something wildly ambitious with his comedy, and largely succeeding.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
At its core, a perceptive satire of the interpersonal boiling points in buddy-cop pictures.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Connie Ogle
So hilarious that even longtime Ferrell haters (me) can't resist it.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Joshua Katzman
Michael Keaton is a stitch as an emasculated police captain moonlighting as a retail store manager.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
For the most part, The Other Guys is seriously silly stuff, in the best sense.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
For a good hour, this is the picture Kevin Smith was trying to make with "Cop Out."
Read Full Review >Orlando Sentinel Roger Moore
It’s amusingly off-the-wall, but entirely too cluttered to come together.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Wahlberg is surprisingly committed to the ridiculousness.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Variety Peter Debruge
The laughs ultimately take a backseat to a convoluted white-collar crime story.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.”
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
Have you ever seen a movie you half-liked a lot?
Read Full Review >Slate Josh Levin
The Other Guys actually suffers by comparison to its own madcap opening sequence.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Amy Biancolli
A typical vehicle for Ferrell's atypical humor.
Read Full Review >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.
