Average Rating: 6/10
Reviews Counted: 189
Fresh: 121 | Rotten: 68
It's uneven and occasionally somewhat aimless, but Starsky & Hutch benefits from Stiller and Wilson's chemistry and a surprisingly warm-hearted script.
Average Rating: 6/10
Critic Reviews: 41
Fresh: 28 | Rotten: 13
It's uneven and occasionally somewhat aimless, but Starsky & Hutch benefits from Stiller and Wilson's chemistry and a surprisingly warm-hearted script.
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Starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson in the title roles, this kitschy tongue-in cheek action comedy is based on the popular 1970s cop show of the same name. Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson (Wilson) and Dave Starsky (Stiller) are a tough pair of plain-clothes cops who drive a red and white Ford Torino and solve cases with the assistance of their informant, Huggy Bear (Snoop Dogg). While investigating their latest case, the duo realize that the culprit is none other than Reese Feldman (Vince Vaughn), the
PG-13, 1 hr. 41 min.
Mar 5, 2004 Wide
Jul 20, 2004
$88.2M
Warner Bros. Pictures
All Critics (190) | Top Critics (41) | Fresh (127) | Rotten (70) | DVD (34)
Stiller and Wilson look bewildered.
A sterling supporting cast -- down to the tiniest bit parts -- provides enough astringent intelligence to make the slobbering sentimentality go down with ease.
Moves slowly and without much grace; it tries to jiggle laughs out of us instead of letting them flow freely.
There is a comic-book devouring, Playboy-stashing adolescent male heart thumping rather sweetly at the core of this homage-spoof.
A scattershot cop comedy that aims its parodistic firepower not at any single target -- least of all its namesake -- but at an entire decade.
A really good not-great movie, the kind that would be classified as a guilty pleasure were it not executed with guilt-free honesty and good nature.
Silly, but lots of fun for older teens.
Hollywood continues yet again to draw its source material from television which this sub-par adaptation of a classic television show.
Stiller and Wilson are far less serious than their television role models (Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul) but still drive the hell out of the souped-up Ford Gran Torino muscle car that boosted the show's visual appeal.
A buddy cop movie filled with genuine laughs.
The film is as clever as it is silly, more warmhearted than sentimental and just as irreverent as it is nostalgic.
Cartoonish but clever, with the bulk of the fun coming when Wilson's wry wit meets Stiller's impatient officiousness head-on. Sophomoric, yet probably the best of the recent TV retreads.
Not exactly politically correct, but you'd be hard pushed to find a single mean frame.
Too amiable to cook up anything truly memorable...
Todd Phillips strikes nostalgic gold, squeezing just enough comedy out of the buddy cop formula to keep it afloat during its brisk 95-minute runtime.
Had the script actually had a direction it would've helped.
A pleasant diversion that vanishes from your mind right after you watch it.
Though the gags aren't always funny, I usually had a smile on my face.
Who could have anticipated that Snoop would be the saving grace of a major studio buddy flick?
People were laughing at my screening, but I couldn't understand what it was they were laughing at.
Director Phillips pays loving tribute to the show and spoofs buddy-cop flicks, all while trying to stay in step with the Seventies.
Starsky and Hutch is a diverting and inventive waste of time. No attempt was made to create a serious take (like Michael Mann's horrendous Miami Vice film version) on the iconic TV show, but instead to use it as fodder for frothy, pointless retro fun, jam packed with some of the 70's cheesiest pop classics,
January 27, 2012Super Reviewer
The story sometimes feels like its a bit flimsy and it certainly doesn't provide much action or the man-childedness of Hot Fuzz. But it benefits from chemistry between Stiller and Wilson and it did make me laugh.
December 22, 2011
Super Reviewer
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