The Other Guys

Will Ferrell's latest film is a spoof on cop movies, cop buddy movies to be more exact. Mark Wahlberg is his partner and they play two cops who are very different and forced to work together.

I've been looking forward to this one and have seen the trailers too many times, but can tell you one fact - there are scenes in the trailer that are NOT in the movie. I hate when they do that! For whatever reason lines are missing, scenes are cut, and some of the funny stuff we saw in the trailer is just not in the film.

That little irritating note aside, the movie is pretty funny. We laughed out loud over and over during the first third of it, but then it loses momentum, runs out of steam, seems to be ad libbed or unclear, and worst yet it actually starts to turn into a real cop buddy movie *gasp*. Weren't we just spoofing those?

Samuel L. Jackson and "The Rock" Dwayne Johnson are in this and they provide some of the best laughs hands down. It was fun seeing Samuel L. get his comedy on.

Most refreshing performance is seeing Michael Keaton again! He is great in this as the police captain ("Capt. Gene") and we wondered where he's been and why he doesn't have a much bigger part!

Overall this is fun and very silly. If you love Will Ferrell anyway it will be a Must See for you. I happen to like him in small doses so I don't automatically run to see something he's in.

The end credits have an oddly serious series of true financial facts about fraud and theft and money. It was interesting to stay and watch them (and we did) but also weird and didn't fit in with such a screwball comedy movie.

We gave this one a "3" for fun. Pueblo Tinseltown was the place, popcorn was hot and fresh and excellent!

Small side rant - people, why do you insist on sitting right next to other people in a movie theater?? I know, I've ranted about this here before, but have to do it again. This happens often to us and it's a crazy phenomenon. If we go into an empty theater and sit anywhere, someone will come and sit RIGHT NEXT TO US. Either directly behind or in front of us or right next to us in the same row. In a movie theater with NO OTHER PEOPLE!! It drives us nuts. Is it your herd instinct, sheeple? We like to sit away from others - we tend to make snarky comments to each other during a movie plus we just don't like people frankly, and when the theater is mostly empty it should be quite easy to have a buffer zone, but it's not!

Yesterday it happened again at the movies. No more than 30 people at the whole showing and you guessed it, most of them were right next to us. We have gone so far as to come in early and sit in the middle, where we don't want to be, let people trickle in and pack all around us and then when the trailers begin we get up and move to our real seats that we like, with no one around. It works well if we do it late enough before the feature begins.

I drove into the post office parking lot one day when it was totally empty - not one car there - and parked in a space. Before I could get my door open another car zipped into the lot and pulled into The Space RIGHT NEXT TO ME, and so close I could hardly get my door open!! With the entire LOT empty all around us! Are you kidding me??

Do we just have to be crammed together constantly?

Okay, rant off for now. I will never understand people.