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Adam McKay may not be the best director or a household name just yet but hardcore movie fans like myself know when he does films with comedian Will Ferrell, it’s a hit and it JUST WORKS OUT. Now this former director Adam McKay was once a writer for Saturday Night Live and went onto directing two Will Ferrell movie’s, Anchorman and Talladega Nights with huge box office success. It’s also written in Will Ferrell’s resume that whenever he’s done a film without Adam McKay directing it, his movies have failed miserably in films such as Land of the Lost and Semi-Pro. As both the director and the co-writer of the film “The Other Guys”, Adam McKay does a wonderful job in bringing out the best in their main stars Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell and of course the rest of the acting crew. The best thing about this movie is that it complements both the action and comedy aspect than any other comedic film I’ve seen in a while.

In this film we get to see a whole new perspective on what detectives and cops actually do in the police department as far as work is concerned and hardly ever get the chance to fight crime out of their cubicles. For instance, we see it all of the time in shows like Law & Order and action movies whereas the detectives will chase down the criminals in the usual cops and robbers shenanigans and or games and this movie’s very different in that perspective. We see these cops staying at their cubicles performing their usual police reports which is certainly a whole new side we haven’t ever seen in other movies before. Will Ferrell plays Allen Gamble, a cop that enjoys working at his office filing police reports instead of working in the field whereas his partner Terry Hoitz (Mark Wahlberg) is a whole new story, he’s the go getter of the two with his forceful nature and a whole lot more ambitious.

What made this movie work really well was the last 40 percent of it. The one thing that made this movie that much more interesting is that they didn’t give Will Ferrell’s character all of the jokes, a mistake that all buddy cop movies make like the recent Cop Out remake starring both Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan. Mark Wahlberg was as good as he always is in playing the more intense character like he does in every movie he’s in, he also had plenty of laugh out jokes in the film and does it beautifully with a straight face it’s just epic! I especially loved his joke about wanting to fly like a peacock because it may just make it’s way into AFI’s Most Memorable Movie Quotes and when he shoots Derek Jeter by mistaking him for a criminal it sent the whole movie theatre into a laughing uproar!

The twenty percent of the film that was absolutely hilarious was even more funny as the movie and story progressed. Many buddy cop movies of past and present make their biggest mistake in showing their villains very early on, which happens all of the time in comic book superheroes. The great thing about this film is that it gets you involved into figuring out the mystery along with Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg and the many twists and turns that get you into questioning who the actual culprit is behind the massive ponzi scheme. However the movie The Other Guys isn’t just any movie it’s the “movie”. Some of the jokes were a little out of place, and even the annoying police chief’s (Michael Keaton) motive in keeping Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg into solving the ponzi scheme mystery did interfere with the film quite a bit. The Other Guys had a fabulous story line, everyone was just hilarious and in the year 2010 this movie lives up to all of the hype and so much more. I truly appreciate the individuals that have taken time out of their day to read this review and I’m certainly thankful for that.

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