The Other Guys

Police comedy starring Will Farrell and Mark Wahlberg.

I really like Mark Wahlberg, especially in the remake of The Italian Job, The Departed and Planet of the Apes. Not to mention his cameos in Date Night (his chest should have an honourable mention).

Mark is funny, Will leaves me cold.

Samuel L. Jackson and Dwayne Johnson are hotshot cops (parodying roles they have played in the past) and they are very funny who get all the glory, and Mark and Will are the desk jockeys - Mark after shooting Derek Jeter. Now if you don't know who Derek Jeter is, and you're going to see the movie, please look it up. It is a central premise to the movie and I could not stop laughing being a Bronx girl.

There is a very convoluted story, but just watch Mark Wahlberg. Will's USP is that he is irresistible to women, and Mark's response to this is hilarious as is the wooden gun. The movie is really all over the place, but I did laugh out loud and my children did as well (this was a substitute movie for us as we were going to see the Hole in bloody 3D which is in my local cinema, but not in this location of the same cinema - don't ask). Again I have to say alot passes through a 12A these days.

The end credits get very serious which is bizarre.