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The Other Guys

2010

Adam McKay

Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Michael Keaton, Eva Mendes ...

5.0

9,411

Comedy. Action Two mismatched New York City detectives seize an opportunity to step up like the city's top cops whom they idolize -- only things don't quite go as planned. NYPD Detectives Christopher Danson (Dwayne Johnson) and P.K. Highsmith (Samuel L. Jackson) are the baddest and most beloved cops in New York City. They don't get tattoos—other men get tattoos of them. Two desks over and one back, sit Detectives Allen Gamble (Will Ferrell) and Terry ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Don't let anyone spoil the wildly hilarious surprises. Ferrell and Wahlberg will double your fun. Guaranteed (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	The Hollywood Reporter	"McKay does his best work to date here, and though the picture could have benefited from a tighter edit, there’s no shortage of inspired sequences."	POS
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"'The Other Guys' is 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"	NEG
United States	S. Jhoanna Robledo Common Sense Media	"[Ferrell] milks every moment, no matter how it strains credulity and humor, and often pulls it off (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"[It] often looks like a 107-minute comedy sketch, and I laughed throughout (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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