The Other Guys (2010)

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The Other Guys is the sort of movie that generates some of its best jokes quietly in the background or as quick-hit throwaway lines, while other terrific gags are defiantly over the top.

January 31, 2011 Full Review

Connie Ogle

Miami Herald

Top Critic

This is the fourth feature that Will Ferrell and writer-director Adam McKay have collaborated on, and once again they deliver laugh-out-loud if ultimately disposable comedy with mixed messages about arrested male development.

December 20, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Joshua Katzman

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

There's a wealth of joyously berserk idiot humour, fusing slapstick and satire, surrealism and stream-of-consciousness improv into what could well prove the funniest movie of the year.

September 15, 2010 Full Review

Tom Huddleston

Time Out

Top Critic

The Other Guys is most authentically itself when it indulges in a free-form but nonetheless highly disciplined silliness that has the effect of dissolving, rather than piquing, whatever worldly anger or frustration you may be harboring.

August 6, 2010 Full Review | Comments (6)

A.O. Scott

New York Times

Top Critic

Through it all, Ferrell is as Ferrell does. He's a non sequitur with frizz.

August 6, 2010 Full Review

Amy Biancolli

Houston Chronicle

Top Critic

Deteriorates into something resembling Rush Hour 3.

August 6, 2010 Full Review | Comments (11)

Liam Lacey

Globe and Mail

Top Critic

One of the biggest problems overall, besides the lack of comedy, was the lack of story.

September 23, 2012 Full Review

Jeff Beck

Examiner.com

Ferrell hasn't been this funny in years.

November 5, 2011 Full Review

Greg Maki

Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

The first 30 minutes of the film, where this concept is really milked to the max, easily makes for some of the funniest comedy of the year.

February 1, 2011 Full Review | Comments (2)

Mike Edwards

What Culture

Not all of the gags pan out, but when they do they get more than a few chuckles.

January 21, 2011 Full Review

Jeffrey Chen

Window to the Movies

Juxtaposes the excesses of our unregulated financial sector with the excesses of the buddy cop movie.

December 21, 2010 Full Review

Matt Singer

IFC.com

There are quite a few fun and hilarious moments to be had thanks to a knockout supporting cast, but there's a reason we've never followed "the other guys" before.

December 15, 2010 Full Review

R. L. Shaffer

IGN DVD

Even the credits at the end of the film are smart, detailing the inequities of CEO pay and the government bailout of AIG and large banking firms.

December 8, 2010 Full Review | Comments (3)

Robert Roten

Laramie Movie Scope

The Other Guys isn't as loose and free associative as its predecessors, planting Ferrell in the middle of a routine mismatched cop plot that doesn't permit him to combust.

November 4, 2010 Full Review

Luke Goodsell

Empire Magazine Australasia

Stop the press! Multimillionaire actors unite to skewer deep-pocketed bureaucrats and billion-dollar blowouts! Does Adam McKay's The Other Guys herald the end of Hollywood's age of excess? Hmm, not quite.

October 21, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Simon Miraudo

Quickflix

A fast-punching farce with a serious devotion to the random.

October 19, 2010 Full Review

Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

The balance of action and humour is off here and by dialing down the moments of ridiculousness from his other films with Ferrell, McKay has made them all the more glaringly odd.

October 4, 2010 Full Review

Steve Newall

Flicks.co.nz

...a misfire of impressively epic proportions.

October 3, 2010 Full Review | Comments (13)

David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

The Other Guys, like the testosterone-heavy "frat-pack" films which Ferrell is known for, is a buddy-cop film that's at once savvy, nostalgic, irreverent, and heartfelt.

September 24, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Brett McCracken

Christianity Today

The Other Guys has surprisingly energetic action sequences, shoot'em-ups and car chases, and even a bit of a whodunit plot...

September 22, 2010 Full Review

David Sexton

This is London

It runs out of steam in the final third but The Other Guys is constantly kept afloat by a grand cast that includes Michael Keaton as station captain Gene Mauch and Eva Mendes as Gamble's smouldering wife Sheila.

September 20, 2010 Full Review | Comment (1)

Allan Hunter

Daily Express

• 1. Det. Terry Hoitz: Bye Shiela!
  – Submitted by sam v (47 days ago)
• 1. Det. Allen Gamble: I'm about to do you grandpa style.
  – Submitted by Joseph K (3 months ago)
• 1. Fosse: Hope you like jail food. And penis.
  – Submitted by Deanne T (4 months ago)
• 1. Det. Terry Hoitz: If you touch him one more time, I'll beat you with Allen's head.
  2. Det. Allen Gamble: No he's won't. He's just using a hyperbole but that's a really weird example.
  – Submitted by William C (6 months ago)
• 1. Det. Terry Hoitz: What is it with you and hot women?
  – Submitted by Brendan C (7 months ago)
• 1. Det. Allen Gamble: These braised short ribs taste like a dogs asshole. What kind of woman would slow roast a dogs asshole, and serve it to her husband?
  – Submitted by Brendan C (7 months ago)

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