Movies on Cable: The Whole Ten Yards

	Studios:	Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
	Release:	April 9, 2004
	Genre:	Comedy, Crime/Gangster and Sequel
	MPAA Rating:	PG-13 for sexual content, some violence and language.

The Whole Nine Yards was a charming action comedy. I expected the same with the sequel. What I saw however were jokes stretched thin. I found the Jill character (played by Amanda Peet) extremely annoying. Bruce Willis and Matthew Perry still have the comedic chemistry going on ... but sadly, that wasn't enough to make this a really good comedy.

Movies on Cable: Starsky and Hutch

	Studios:	Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., Dimension Films
	Release:	March 5th, 2004
	Genre:	Action/Adventure, Comedy, Crime/Gangster and Adaptation
	MPAA Rating:	PG-13 for drug content, adult situations, partial nudity, language and some violence.

When I was a kid, Starsky and Hutch was one of the few shows I liked on TV that was not a cartoon (Charlie's Angels was another one). I didn't have a problem with the comedic tone of the movie version of Charlie's Angels, so I didn't have a problem with this Starsky and Hutch movie being a parody of the TV series.

One reason I watched this movie is because the leads are played by Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson ... who have established themselves in comedy, and whose Zoolander team-up is still fresh in my mind.

There is actually a case to be solved here, despite the gags. This is still a cop movie, after all. We get chase scenes, hilarious undercover work, a meanie that's played seriously by Vince Vaughn, and the cool spy who knows his grass played by Snoop Dogg. Loved Snoop Dogg in this film, I wonder if he's just as cool in other movies. Hope he doesn't get into more scrapes with the law. That could hamper his career if he's not careful.

As with other Stiller films, the humor here is green or even vulgar at times. I think that some scenes were even censored and edited out of the version shown on cable TV.