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Alynda Wheat, People: VERY GOOD (cg) "Like the stumblebum cops it features, 'The Other Guys' makes every possible mistake but still comes out a winner.... everyone is pretty funny..." (Read the full review...) 179 words, 08/05/10 Richard Corliss, Time: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...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 the full review...) 737 words, 08/06/10 Christy Lemire, Associated Press: VERY GOOD (cg) "...has a refreshingly weird, kinky streak throughout... an unexpected kick.... the majority of it works.... the action sequences are played totally straight." (Read the full review...) 659 words, 08/05/10 Thelma Adams, Us Weekly: MODERATE (cg) "Early on, the buddy pic generates some laughs.... But the chuckles evaporate.... Guys gone mild." (Read the full review...) 143 words, 08/05/10 Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...as antic and raucous and fun as any of Farrell's previous screen outings, only this one has a surprisingly personal flavor. It's Ferrell's richest riff yet on the comedy of conflicted aggression." (Read the full review...) 787 words, 08/06/10 Michael Phillips, A.O. Scott, At the Movies: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) Michael Phillips: "Rent it." A.O. Scott: "Rent it." (Watch the full review...) 299 seconds, 08/07/10 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: VERY GOOD (cg) "...sit back and laugh your ass off.... 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 the full review...) 193 words, 08/06/10 Claudia Puig, USA Today: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "The pairing of Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg has its giddy moments, but the buddy-cop parody suffers as it bogs down in unfunny police procedures and shoot-'em-up action." (Read the full review...) 445 words, 08/06/10 James Berardinelli, Reel Views: VERY GOOD (cg) "...funnier and more energetic than anything Ferrell has produced in quite some time.... for the first time in several years, he is up to the task..." (Read the full review...) 807 words, 08/04/10
A.O. Scott, New York Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Not confident enough to be a loose, nutty spoof of macho cop action movies, it also tries to be one of those movies more or less in earnest." (Read the full review...) 883 words, 08/06/10 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...hits and misses.... begins and ends with gratifyingly wild, if suitably inane, car chases. You may be surprised by how fast a Prius can fly." (Read the full review...) 346 words, 08/06/10 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: VERY GOOD "There is something so richly subversive, so vicariously appealing about turning accountants into action heroes... clever and funny from the first frame." (Read the full review...) 818 words, 08/06/10 Kyle Smith, New York Post: MODERATE (cg) "...the movie forgets it's a comedy and starts burrowing into a convoluted but uninteresting financial scandal involving an evil capitalist played by Steve Coogan." (Read the full review...) 658 words, 08/06/10 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...a mixed bag, worth sorting through for things like the tale of the lion and the tuna, which barely makes sense as you're hearing it." (Read the full review...) 549 words, 08/06/10 Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: VERY GOOD (cg) "...everyone is doing what he does best, including a terrific Michael Keaton as a harried police chief and Eva Mendes as Allen's incomprehensibly gorgeous wife." (Read the full review...) 284 words, 08/06/10 David Edelstein, New York Magazine: GOOD " 'The sound of your piss hitting the urinal -- it sounds feminine.' Every time the movie seems to be settling into a formula groove, a line like that pops out..." (Read the full review...) 843 words, 08/05/10 Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "...just when we feel we're getting lost we get another self-referential joke that hits the mark." (Read the full review...) 819 words, 08/06/10 Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...loose and funny.... for a while, the gears catch.... more hectic than antic, and somebody didn't pack enough comedy for this long trip..." (Read the full review...) 665 words, 08/04/10 Peter Howell, Toronto Star: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "It should be a lot funnier than it is, and it would be if the jokes had been as smart as the casting." (Read the full review...) 712 words, 08/06/10 Liam Lacey, Toronto Globe & Mail: MODERATE (cg) "A smart little comedy, until an action flick crashes the party." (Read the full review...) 778 words, 08/06/10 Josep Parera, La Opinion: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "Lo que en un principio era una comedia simpática e intrascendente, termina convirtiéndose en un producto olvidable y, de nuevo, intrascendente." (Read the full review...) 360 words, 08/06/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...it's no 'Hot Fuzz,' but it's a damn sight better than 'Cop Out,' and frankly, that's probably all you need to know." (Read the full review...) 296 words, 08/05/10
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...takes stuff that, as a rule, isn't particularly funny, and tries to make you laugh. More often than not, it succeeds." (Read the full review...) 758 words, 08/06/10 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: MODERATE (cg) "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..." (Read the full review...) 475 words, 08/06/10 Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle/San Francisco Chronicle: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...arresting.... a typical vehicle for Ferrell's atypical humor..." (Read the full review...) 562 words, 08/06/10 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...amusingly off-the-wall, but entirely too cluttered to come together." (Read the full review...) 501 words, 08/06/10 Tom Horgen, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: VERY GOOD (cg) "Do we really need another buddy-cop comedy? While stupefying, the answer is, surprisingly, 'yes.' " (Read the full review...) 329 words, 08/06/10 Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: VERY GOOD (cg) "...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." (Read the full review...) 435 words, 08/06/10 Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...plenty smart about being stupid... It may be a formula, but it's more than welcome at a time when so many comedies are content to chase condescension with phony uplift." (Read the full review...) 671 words, 08/06/10 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: VERY GOOD (cg) "...works because it feels like its two stars have something they need to get off their chests. Ferrell is experimenting with restraint. His partner clowns around with rage." (Read the full review...) 932 words, 08/06/10 Clint O'Connor, Cleveland Plain-Dealer: VERY GOOD (cg) "...provides lots of low-rent laughs and Ferrell and Wahlberg are good sparring partners, worth hanging with for a while." (Read the full review...) 432 words, 08/06/10 Mike Russell, Portland Oregonian: EXCELLENT (cg) "...epically absurd, slightly overlong, pretty funny... Adam McKay is back to trying something wildly ambitious with his comedy, and largely succeeding." (Read the full review...) 673 words, 08/06/10 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Wahlberg, who was a revelation as a hotheaded fireman in 'I Heart Huckabees,' repeats the feat of poking holes in a heroic persona." (Read the full review...) 324 words, 08/06/10 Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times: EXCELLENT (cg) "There's no better way to spoof standard police movie procedure than doing the car chases, rooftop leaps, shootouts and precinct politics..." (Read the full review...) 589 words, 08/06/10 Tom Long, Detroit News: EXCELLENT (cg) "...as funny as Ferrell is -- in truth, this is one of his most even and consistent comedies -- Wahlberg is even funnier playing the straight man." (Read the full review...) 576 words, 08/06/10 Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: VERY GOOD (cg) "...generates some of its best jokes quietly in the background or as quick-hit throwaway lines, while other terrific gags are defiantly over the top." (Read the full review...) 423 words, 08/06/10
Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice/LA Weekly: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...loose and funny.... for a while, the gears catch.... more hectic than antic, and somebody didn't pack enough comedy for this long trip..." (Read the full review...) 665 words, 08/04/10 Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix: VERY GOOD (cg) "Will Ferrell returns to form as Detective Allen Gamble, a NYPD numbers cruncher and desk jockey who gets odd-coupled with Mark Wahlberg's gung-ho loser..." (Read the full review...) 157 words, 08/05/10 Scott Tobias, AV Club: EXCELLENT (cg) "...inspired... gloms together enough clever riffs and random funny business to overcome the inevitable lumpiness and dead ends." (Read the full review...) 395 words, 08/05/10 Todd Gilchrist, Cinematical: OUTSTANDING "...offers one of Ferrell's all-time best performances, probably McKay's most cohesive film to date, and one of the most all-around satisfying comedies in years." (Read the full review...) 971 words, 08/05/10 Nick Schager, Slant: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...a narrative that generates hilarity not from its main storyline, but only from standalone incidents and exchanges, inherently scattershot." (Read the full review...) 779 words, 08/04/10 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...it's no 'Hot Fuzz,' but it's a damn sight better than 'Cop Out,' and frankly, that's probably all you need to know." (Read the full review...) 296 words, 08/05/10 Curt Holman, Atlanta Creative Loafing: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "The cop clichés give Ferrell and director Adam McKay plenty to riff on for a while, but once the good gags peter out, the lumbering action scenes prove less than arresting." (Read the full review...) 654 words, 08/04/10 MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher: EXCELLENT (cg) "Not every bit works, but even the bits that don't fail honestly, not out of overstretching desperation on the part of the filmmakers... There's even an SEC joke that works." (Read the full review...) 900 words, 08/06/10
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: GOOD "...loud, raunchy, semicoherent and stuffed to the bursting point with heavy weaponry and car chases... can also be very funny, albeit fitfully..." (Read the full review...) 437 words, 08/06/10 A.O. Scott, New York Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Not confident enough to be a loose, nutty spoof of macho cop action movies, it also tries to be one of those movies more or less in earnest." (Read the full review...) 883 words, 08/06/10 David Edelstein, NPR Fresh Air: GOOD "The latest Ferrell-McKay collaboration isn't in the league of their last few.... [but] I look back over my notes on the movie and find myself choking with laughter." (Listen to the full review...) 355 seconds, 08/06/10 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: VERY GOOD "There is something so richly subversive, so vicariously appealing about turning accountants into action heroes... clever and funny from the first frame." (Read the full review...) 818 words, 08/06/10 Josh Levin, Slate: FAIR "...just a bit too much formula and not quite enough insane-asylum lunacy.... Ferrell and Wahlberg struggle with the constraints of a well-worn genre." (Read the full review...) 671 words, 08/05/10 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: VERY GOOD "...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..." (Read the full review...) 1,039 words, 08/05/10
Peter Debruge, Daily Variety: MODERATE "...may have set out to make a satire of '80s bud-cop movies.... But the result could pass for one of those films, assuming you can get past the tongue-in-cheek approach to every setpiece." (Read the full review...) 1,034 words, 08/01/10 Michael Rechtshaffen, Hollywood Reporter: EXCELLENT "Just when it seemed like the once-robust buddy-cop action-comedy was going to require a do-not-resuscitate order, along comes Will Ferrell and Adam McKay to show 'em how it's done." (Read the full review...) 478 words, 08/01/10 Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: VERY GOOD "There is something so richly subversive, so vicariously appealing about turning accountants into action heroes... clever and funny from the first frame." (Read the full review...) 818 words, 08/06/10 Tim Grierson, Cinema 24/7: GOOD (cg) "A likeable romp... sporadically funny though star Will Ferrell and his frequent collaborator-director Adam McKay haven't fully capitalized on a fertile comedic conceit." (Read the full review...) 971 words, 08/03/10 A.O. Scott, New York Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "Not confident enough to be a loose, nutty spoof of macho cop action movies, it also tries to be one of those movies more or less in earnest." (Read the full review...) 883 words, 08/06/10 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: GOOD "...loud, raunchy, semicoherent and stuffed to the bursting point with heavy weaponry and car chases... can also be very funny, albeit fitfully..." (Read the full review...) 437 words, 08/06/10
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