ChicRawIdol
A brilliant film that helped define a genre
Bea Swanson
This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.
Adeel Hail
Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.
cricketbat
The Other Guys made me laugh a lot, but every now and then it becomes so absurd that it isn't funny anymore. This is a fun parody of the "buddy cop" genre with sharp, well-deserved jabs at the financial district. I was entertained.
merelyaninnuendo
The Other GuysSome verbal sparring between Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg are hilarious but some of these comic sequences seem to be forcibly created only to lighten up the mood which results into an overlong runtime. The Other Guys is fortunately not your typical buddy cop movie but doesn't stand alone too although it sure is worth a watch to see it through Adam's vision. The writer-director Adam Mackay keeps it smart and practical through its amusing perspective but fails into delivering entertainment throughout the feature. Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell are flat out funny especially in their arguments over petty things and the post credit scene. The Other Guys has eerie characters, unpredictable track and great one-liners but what it lacks is a gripping screenplay to hold the audience for around 2 hours.
nicholls_les
Sorry all those who loved this but I didn't laugh or even smile once. A comedy is only a comedy if it is funny and Will Ferrel doing a poor impression of Chevy Chase just doesn't do it for me. The Mark Walberg character was weird and I never got what his angle actually was, in fact that was true of most of the characters, they were a mish-mash of characters from other comedy films and it just didn't work. But I guess the fault lies in the script and direction because as I said it just wasn't funny. Now I am sure many who did like it may have rolled about laughing but maybe that just shows we all have different tastes when it comes to humour. On a side note I was quite shocked at how short both Mark Wahlberg and Michael Keaton were. I kept thinking 'how on earth did that guy play Batman?
Jesper Tved Korsgaard
"The Other Guys" is a comedy, crime action movie, which follows the two cop buddies Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg who try to make a name for themselves in the NYPD. The story itself is not what makes this movie fun to watch, but instead to see the chemistry that goes on between Ferrell and Wahlberg. Their characters, who minds are complete opposite of each other works great for some good laughs throughout the movie. I love that the movie is set in a police environment, and that we get to see the odd police partnership play out between these two main characters. The flaw I have for this movie is the opportunities the movie misses to make it even funnier. The jokes in the movie mostly consist of what looks like improvised talk, and it's hard to find some real jokes in the movie without witnessing Wahlberg yelling all the time and Ferrell's mumbling. I feel the script could have been much better, but that isn't to say that the movie isn't funny at all, because it certainly has some scenes that will make you laugh. The crime- solving story isn't really that exiting to watch, which makes you more focused on how well Will and Wahlberg can deliver a funny performance. In the end, the movie has its funny moments but overall it could have been better.
