![]() One of the things I love about this movie is how everyone plays it straight. The premise is unexceptional, a mismatched buddy movie about two undistinguished cops who stumble into a big case, but the movie is wildly funny. Ferrell is a likable guy and plays likable characters, but often his films feel a little too much like extended Saturday Night Live sketches even if they're funny, they just don't have that much to them. I tend to have mixed feelings about Will Ferrell films. ![]() Adam McKay has a great sense of the ridiculous. The angrier Wahlberg gets, the funnier the movie gets. The fighting partners have great chemistry. Ferrell is hilarious and Wahlberg is the perfect angry foil. This is just as good in a completely different way. I would have loved a buddy cop movie with Samuel L. On the personal side, Hoitz can't believe that Gamble is married to Sheila (Eva Mendes). Gamble arrests Ershon on a scaffolding permit violation but a professional team takes him. She demands that he replace the losses and he tries to go on the run. David Ershon (Steve Coogan) is an investment banker who lost $32 billion of Pamela Boardman (Anne Heche)'s fund. Hoitz forces Gamble to take on a high profile case. Everybody wants to be the next hero cops. Highsmith and Danson finally kill themselves stupidly in a chase. Gamble is eager to do paperwork for the heroes and Hoitz hates him for it. His partner Terry Hoitz (Mark Wahlberg) is still trying to make up for shooting Derek Jeter. Allen Gamble (Will Ferrell) is a naive paper pusher. Captain Gene Mauch (Michael Keaton) is in charge. Martin (Rob Riggle) and Fosse (Damon Wayans Jr.) are the jokers. They get into outlandish chases for nothing arrests. Jackson) and Christopher Danson (Dwayne Johnson) are the best action hero rock star cops in the NYPD.
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