 | 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.
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