The Other Guys 2010

Christy Lemire, Associated Press: You should really meet and get to know these guys for yourself. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: The Other Guys is a Ponzi scheme of a comedy, a buddy action picture cluttered with funny characters and hilarious moments. Read more

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: They may not be Jack Lemmon and Billy Wilder , but Will Ferrell and Adam McKay have a pretty good thing going. Read more

James Rocchi, MSN Movies: Highbrow, lowbrow and no-brow, inspired by improvisation yet connected to the structure of a plot and the traditions of a genre, "The Other Guys" is that rare modern comedy as smart as it is crazy, and as skillful as it is silly. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: 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. Read more

David Fear, Time Out: Gives Wahlberg and Ferrell beautiful opportunities to turn their anger-mismanagement-meets-milquetoast act into an absurdist version of Abbott and Costello. Read more

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: A summer movie that honors summer-movie conventions with a vengeance. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: Gloms together enough clever riffs and random funny business to overcome the inevitable lumpiness and dead ends. Read more

Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: It's sneaky and smartly funny, offering an almost perfect balance of action and comedy. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: What seems like another desperate adventure in stunt casting turns out to be a combustible comic bounty. Read more

Amy Nicholson, Boxoffice Magazine: As good and fleeting as a street corner popsicle Read more

Joshua Katzman, Chicago Reader: 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. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: As with the war-film goof Tropic Thunder, you wonder if a smaller, scruffier-looking version of the same movie would have yielded bigger comic payoffs. Read more

Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: Through it all, Ferrell is as Ferrell does. He's a non sequitur with frizz. Read more

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: At times, there's an "everything but the kitchen sink" quality to the joke grab. But it works. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: In terms of flat-out nonstop laughter, it's the best comedy of the summer. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: It's a comedy of manhood for the age of emasculation. Read more

Michael Rechtshaffen, Hollywood Reporter: Just when it seemed like the once-robust buddy-cop action-comedy was going to require a do-not-resuscitate order, along comes Will Ferrell and Adam McKay to show 'em how it's done. Read more

Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: The plot doesn't always hold water and it has a tendency to ramble, but they don't seem to care. And honestly, neither should you. Read more

Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: 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. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Measured against this year's other police farce -- remember Cop Out? -- it looks absolutely heroic. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: There are as many hits as there are misses, thanks to the dedication of both leads. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: Forgets it's a comedy and starts burrowing into a convoluted but uninteresting financial scandal involving an evil capitalist played by Steve Coogan. Read more

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: The Other Guys boasts perhaps three legitimately funny sequences in all its belabored 107 minutes. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: For the most part, the jokes have punch lines, which is too rarely the case in big-budget comedies. Read more

Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: Note to Kevin Smith: THIS is how you do a spoof of the buddy-cop genre. Read more

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: Don't let anyone spoil the wildly hilarious surprises. Ferrell and Wahlberg will double your fun. Guaranteed. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: This is a startling late-summer surprise that's hysterically funny when it's not falling on its face. Read more

Josh Levin, Slate: There's just a bit too much formula and not quite enough insane-asylum lunacy. Read more

Tom Horgen, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Do we really need another buddy-cop comedy? While stupefying, the answer is, surprisingly, "yes." Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Deteriorates into something resembling Rush Hour 3. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Dead horse, meet floggers. Read more

Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: Like some silly summer song that can't be shaken from the mind, this is a catchy enterprise, no better than it tries to be and no less funny. Read more

Tom Huddleston, Time Out: 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. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: What would have been very funny for 15 minutes, and pretty funny for 45, doesn't maintain the standard over the course of a feature-length film. Read more

Peter Debruge, Variety: The laughs ultimately take a backseat to a convoluted white-collar crime story. Read more

Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: Somebody didn't pack enough comedy for this long trip -- the punchlines in the movie's second half are often callbacks to jokes you may not fondly remember from the first, until every gag is united with its mate. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: The Other Guys takes stuff that, as a rule, isn't particularly funny, and tries to make you laugh. More often than not, it succeeds. Read more