
McKay's latest goofball offering is The Other Guys which teams Ferrell with Mark Wahlberg in a standard buddy-cop comedy. The two play paper-pushing detectives that are confined to medial office work until a turn of events thrusts them into the forefront of investigating a large financial fraud scheme. The story is supplemented with supporting turns by Sam Jackson, The Rock, Michael Keaton (who always seems to remind me of Beetlejuice when I see him on-screen) and Eva Mendez help the film chug along and offer up a slew of good laughs. Wahlberg is the big surprise in this movie. He was so god awful in The Happening that I completely forgot about him as an actor. He gives such a wooden and straight laced performance in this movie that is comes off as being hysterical. He delivers his angry yelling lines as if he's reading straight off of cue cards. I don't know if he's doing this on purpose or if he's just so bad of an actor that you can't help but find it funny. A humorous running gag with Keaton's character references lyrics from TLC songs. It's this kind of random humor that McKay seems to bring to his movies that appeals to me. There just didn't seem to be enough consistency with that style of humor in the movie though.
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I thought the movie looked good, glad you liked it. And I'm dying to see The Greek. Just saw Hot Tub Time Machine. So funny!
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