The Other Guys may be just a little better than The Green Hornet, but it may be just a little worse. There are parts that are funny, it has a lot less action in it than The Green Hornet (a more reasonable level, really), but it is also less bright and simply fun.
The best part of The Other Guys is the ending credits. They are educational. They spell out in the plainest possible language who the real criminals are and how difficult it is to prosecute them.
Which make me wonder how wise The Other Guys just may be. Throughout the movie, there is this hyper-masculine manor which is promoted. Real Men don't drive Priuses, Real Men like guns and fighting, Real Men don't like the opera, Real Men get Drunk, and Real Men are tough! And the only man on the police force who is not a Real Man is a most abusive husband. The most Real Men men in the film jump to their death in the very beginning being macho. The movie seems, on review, to be like South Park in its utter lampooning of our culture. Like all satire, this movie can be taken the wrong way (and I think it will be by most people) but I have come to think that the wrightors of this film don't believe in anything that happens in it. Besides the credits.
Perhaps that's just what I want to see. In any case, the movie is quite "Interesting Entertainment" in the end...
The best part of The Other Guys is the ending credits. They are educational. They spell out in the plainest possible language who the real criminals are and how difficult it is to prosecute them.
Which make me wonder how wise The Other Guys just may be. Throughout the movie, there is this hyper-masculine manor which is promoted. Real Men don't drive Priuses, Real Men like guns and fighting, Real Men don't like the opera, Real Men get Drunk, and Real Men are tough! And the only man on the police force who is not a Real Man is a most abusive husband. The most Real Men men in the film jump to their death in the very beginning being macho. The movie seems, on review, to be like South Park in its utter lampooning of our culture. Like all satire, this movie can be taken the wrong way (and I think it will be by most people) but I have come to think that the wrightors of this film don't believe in anything that happens in it. Besides the credits.
Perhaps that's just what I want to see. In any case, the movie is quite "Interesting Entertainment" in the end...
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