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Overview


Genre :

Action, Comedy

Release Date :

August 06, 2010

MPAA Rating :

PG-13

Director :

Adam McKay

Starring :

Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, The Rock, Eva Mendes, Steve Coogan, Michael Keaton, Damon Wayans Jr., Ray Stevenson, Andy Buckley, Ben Schwartz, Sara Chase, Lindsay Sloane, Oliver Wood

REVIEWS RATE:  Critics  Nothing's perfect, but it's worth seeing.    Readers  4 of 5 [Rate It]

3 of 4

“..uniquely amusing..”
by Connie Ogle [Miami Herald]
2.5 of 4

“..too many running jokes go amok..”
by Claudia Puig [USA Today]
2.5 of 4

“..this is the summer of the sloppy, hit-or-miss laugher..”
by Roger Moore [Orlando Sentinel]
3 of 5

“..thanks to the dedication of both leads..”
by Elizabeth Weitzman [NY Daily News]
Review rate : B+

“..summer's funniest movie..”
by Steve Persall [St. Petersburg Times]
3 of 4

“..matching-up of Ferrell and Wahlberg is inspired..”
by Jeff Vice [Deseret News]
3.5 of 5

“..It's sneaky and smartly funny..”
by Randy Cordova [Arizona Republic]
Review rate : A-

“..It's a comedy of manhood for the age of emasculation..”
by Owen Gleiberman [Entertainment Weekly]
3 of 4

“..Guaranteed..”
by Peter Travers [Rolling Stone]
2 of 5

“..disjointed plot and inconsistent tone..”
by Jason Morgan [Filmcritic.com]
4 of 5

“..clever and funny from the first frame..”
by Betsy Sharkey [LA Times]
“..Arrestingly funny..”
by Michael Rechtshaffen [Hollywood Reporter]
3 of 4

“..a perceptive satire of the interpersonal boiling points in buddy-cop pictures..”
by Wesley Morris [Boston Globe]
“..a new goofballs-and-fireballs comedy..”
by A.O. Scott [NY Times]
“..a Ferrellized spoof of the buddy-cop action genre..”
by Amy Biancolli [San Francisco Chronicle]
2.5 of 4
Reviewed by Nick Schager [Slant Magazine]
2 of 4
Reviewed by Steven Rea [Philadelphia Inquirer]

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