The Other Guys

The concept behind The Other Guys is a pretty good one. The real cops are accoladed fuck-ups and the one's at the desk do what they do well, but look for glamour--they're the other guys. They're played by a screeching Mark Wahlberg (who accidentally shot Derek Jeter) and the always good Will Ferrell. The story is pretty standard. The two guys are searching for glamour by cracking a specific case they're too unwieldy to handle. But the film isn't very good at doing that, because we never really care if Ferrell becomes a cop he doesn't want to be, and we don't care if Wahlberg will because he's just an asshole. The real meat in the story is in the script. The director know's what he's doing too, and there are a lot of laugh out loud moments in the film. Ferrell's character is the best part of the film, his strangeness and mystique are enthralling and it would be to the films detriment if I attempted to explain them in my words, for the film does it perfectly. That being said, the film is too long, and I wondered where they could possibly go next from one scene to another.
The Other Guys: Marginal ★★★ (A return for Will Ferrell to being funny lets this film deserve it).