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More Anchorman, Less Land of the Lost

By Steven Lloyd Wilson | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (47)



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About five years into classic paycheck cashing straight from the Steve Martin playbook, Will Farrell’s next film is The Other Guys, an odd couple buddy cop flick that on paper has all the appeal of, well, the semi-annual shitty odd couple buddy cop flick. Of course, one could argue that that is precisely what Hot Fuzz was on paper as well, and in that case the paper turned out to be edible, and made of chocolate.

The trailer leaves me cautiously amused but only suspiciously hopeful. At this point, a genuinely hilarious Will Farrell film seems as likely as a genuinely hilarious Adam Sandler film. But, this has The Rock and Samuel L. Jackson! And Mark Wahlberg plays Farrell’s partner! And it’s from Adam McKay (Anchorman)! But then again it’s also from Adam McKay (Step Brothers).

The real difference here from the Farrell vehicles of the last few years is that while he is playing an odd character, it’s still recognizably a human being instead of being a set of idiosyncrasies that were individually test audience approved to be OMG ROFL.


(source: Huffington Post)









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Comments

I prefer to LQTM

Laugh quietly to myself.

Posted by: Blank at April 12, 2010 11:07 AM

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Posted by: garyll at April 12, 2010 11:09 AM

Ooh. I was feeling it right until the GTA joke at 1:46. Then it was straight into the crapper.

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at April 12, 2010 11:22 AM

I think this is just a case--I hope---of a bad trailer. Because the ingredients are there. And the only good Marky Mark, is when he's in comedy stylings mode.

Posted by: Brian at April 12, 2010 11:24 AM

Trailers suck.
Also, fuck Good cop / Bad cop jokes.

Posted by: sunsneezer at April 12, 2010 11:30 AM

Am I imagining things or does the spambot seem more active today than usual?

Posted by: Jen K at April 12, 2010 11:33 AM

Spring is in the air. It makes the spambots think of love.

Posted by: Wednesday at April 12, 2010 11:40 AM

I actually think this looks funny, but then again it's Monday, I got a cool 3 hours sleep last night and I'm arguably kind of stupid even on a good day.

Posted by: Lindsay at April 12, 2010 11:46 AM

So someone will be Sexing the Mutombo today? Good for him.

Posted by: Kballs at April 12, 2010 11:47 AM

Man, I wish I could get that shot of Wahlberg being hit by a wooden gun on a loop.

Posted by: KLS at April 12, 2010 11:53 AM

I swear that "Grand Theft Auto" joke has been used before in some other movie.

Posted by: Mark at April 12, 2010 11:59 AM

It's "Ferrell" not "Farrell". The spelling is, like, right there in the video. Or whatever.


Oh, copy-editing websites. Are you ever not the pitiful cry of the lonely?

Posted by: Johnny Von Awesome at April 12, 2010 12:14 PM

Peacocks DO fly.
They are ground nesters, but they roost in trees. The ability of the males to fly is only hampered from about February through June by their ridiculous tails, but the still can get where they are going. Males will travel 10 miles or more looking for a mate. Interestingly enough, much like wild Turkeys and Quail, as ground nesters, Peacock chicks are able to fly short distances and achieve low roosts within a week or so of hatching. At least they do when being pursued by irritated people (me) who will PUNT THEM if given half the chance.
Stupid Peacocks.
*The More You Know*

Posted by: Lindsey with an 'e' at April 12, 2010 12:23 PM

Mark that Grand Theft Auto joke has been used in every single movie since the video game's inception. Streep's delivery of the line "I learned it from Grand Theft Auto," in the movie Doubt may have been what cost her the Oscar that year, but it was fucking brilliant.

In other news, this movie looks cute to me. I think I'll probably see it. Will Ferrell's crying and spasming always makes me giggle. And as a bonus, pistol whipping.

Posted by: Kayanne at April 12, 2010 12:34 PM

They filmed a bunch of the car chases here in Albany. None of the stars came here, but they shut down a bunch of our downtown and messed up traffic for a couple of weeks. It was a pain in the ass. I feel entitled to a decent movie!

Posted by: Nimue at April 12, 2010 12:36 PM

Pegg/Frost/Wright already did it.

/Including casting Steve Coogan

Posted by: cockroach at April 12, 2010 12:51 PM

The trailer made me laugh. So, I'm taking that as a good sign. Also, I don't always have the most discernible tastes, so it could be a bad movie and I might still like it.

Posted by: tamatha at April 12, 2010 12:56 PM

Your implication that Step Brothers was a bad movie amuses me.

Posted by: Alex at April 12, 2010 12:57 PM

This movie would've been better more tolerable with someone other than Will Ferrell as the straight man.

Posted by: D-Day at April 12, 2010 12:58 PM

I will rent this and have a chuckle, if only because my father LOVES Mark Whalberg. Not the Mark Whalberg the actor or the underwear model, but Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch Mark Whalberg. I have no idea why, but my sixty year old Irish-Italian father with back hair thinks the song "Good Vibrations" is Grammy award quality, and that calling yourself Marky Mark and having a bunch of your dancers calling themselves "funky" qualifies as straight up gangster.

When I was little and the song came on the car radio, Dad always cranked it with the windows rolled down and sang/seat danced along. He also took it upon himself to christen himself Vincy Vince and the Funky Bunch...because of COURSE he did. After one memorable night of too much drinking (one strawberry margarita at our local Mexican joint), Dad was driving in the car with myself, my younger sister and my mother. Dad took an exit ramp too fast and got pulled over by a cop. My father, still feeling giddy from his one cocktail, started seat dancing silently while the cop ran his license. When the cop came back he asked my father why he felt he could take the exit ramp so fast, and without missing a beat he said "Well officer, it's because I'm Vincy Vince and the Funky Bunch!" The cop just stood on the side of the highway for a second and none of us said anything. I'm not sure if he thought my father was impaired in some way or was kidding or just an idiot, but he happened to look back at me and my sister in the backseat (we were about 7 and 9), and he said sternly "Sir, because you have young children with you, I'm going to let you go."

This is also the man who requests "Everybody Wang Chung Tonight" at every event he attends that has a DJ.

Posted by: scorzi at April 12, 2010 1:01 PM

Oh, and Johnny Von Awesome, (or not-so-awesome as the case may be) I know we're all with the bitching and the scathing here, but here's a little Pajiban etiquette: if you notice a typo, misspelling, grammatical error, etc., the cool thing to do is to drop either the author or Dustin an email alerting them to it. Calling the author out in the comments is just kind of jerky, which is not the same as being bitchy or scathing.

Posted by: tamatha at April 12, 2010 1:02 PM

scorzi, I LOVE your dad. Your post made me laugh harder than that trailer...!

Posted by: courtney at April 12, 2010 1:35 PM

scorzi,

I officially love your father. Can he be my father too?

P.S. Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch is my favorite Marky Mark too. For some reason (?) my friend and I call them Farky Bark and the Monkey's Lunch.

Posted by: MM at April 12, 2010 1:36 PM

I can't make up anything close to what my father has done or said in his life. Some highlights:

-Before he got his first cellphone in 2009, he'd drive around town talking on the cordless phone from the house until he lost the connection.

-Bluffed his way into getting hired on an oil rig in the Bering Sea. When they choppered him in he admitted he had no experience and they had to keep him on and train him.

-When he was in the hospital after having an aggravated ulcer he refused to use a bedpan, and while trying to use the toilet he blacked out and smashed so hard into the door it broke off its hinges.

-Was slapped by a nun in high school for handing her an exploding lipstick. At their 25th reunion he lied and told her that because of her hitting him he went to jail for spousal abuse.

-Was thrown out of the delivery room when I was born for punching the doctor, who was too blase about answering my mom's questions.

-If you've ever seen Peter on Family Guy do the "Bird is the Word" dance, that's how my father dances. In public. Even when there is no dancefloor and no music.

-Will headlock anyone without warning. Even small children and old ladies.

-Takes his parenting cues from National Lampoon's Vacation, Uncle Buck and City Slickers.

Posted by: scorzi at April 12, 2010 2:49 PM

Oh scorzi, can you please write a movie about your dad? I would line up on opening night and do the "Bird is the Word" dance for that movie.

Posted by: jinxysphinx at April 12, 2010 3:28 PM

Dad would actually love this site, but he's sixty and has no email address and has never used a computer in his life, not even to do a Google search or chat on AIM. I did show him how to play Minesweeper once and he loved that.

Oh, one other thing he finds hilarious is when he's driving down the street and he'll roll down the window and beep the horn at a stranger walking on the sidewalk and just yell out "Hey Jimmy!" EVERY SINGLE TIME, no matter what state he does it in, the nationality of the guy or what he's doing, the guy will always turn and smile and wave...then put his arm down and look confused. He never changes the name. I guess everyone knows a Jimmy.

Posted by: scorzi at April 12, 2010 4:02 PM

I'm with jinxysphinx. I want to see scorzi's Dad on the big screen!

Although this trailer did make me laugh at the wooden gun bit.

Posted by: MelBivDevoe at April 12, 2010 4:08 PM

Michael Keaton AND Steve Coogan too!???? FUCK YES I'll be seeing this! I can handle Ferrel in this kind of role, and frankly, if his annoying is being balanced out by Wahlberg(who really can be funny) Coogan, Keaton, the ROCK and Motherfucking Samuel L Jackson and who ever the fuck else I saw crammed in there, then yes, yes I think I might enjoy this.


Scorzi...Um...tell your dad I love him, kay?

Posted by: Nadine at April 12, 2010 4:14 PM

Screw you guys. This movie looks absolutely hilarious. I do hope Samuel L. Jackson and The Rock are in it for more than just the beginning, but come on...you gotta admit this looks good.

And who knows, that lame GTA joke might end up in the deleted scenes!

"The movie industry is completely irresponsible for the way they portray explosions!"

I was OMGLOLing hard.

Posted by: Littlejon2001 at April 12, 2010 4:17 PM

Scorzi: Your dad sounds like he's got more material than that "Shit My Dad Says" guy. Get that "Shit My Dad Did" movie greenlit, stat!

Posted by: BWeaves at April 12, 2010 4:36 PM

I'll tell him about the compliments, although he won't understand what a blog is. He'll seriously say "You know why they like me....cause I'm the ginchiest!"

Posted by: scorzi at April 12, 2010 5:19 PM

scorzi's comment had me laughing way more than the trailer. dude that is SO FUNNY omg.

Posted by: kristin at April 12, 2010 8:49 PM

"The movie industry is completely irresponsible for the way they portray explosions!"
I was OMGLOLing hard.

Ditto. I thought it was funny, and will be watching.

I also agree: scorzi's dad is funnier.

Posted by: ilikepie at April 12, 2010 10:44 PM

Scorzi,
i am laughing so hard i might have to go to a walk in clinic for an inhaler. jebus. fan. tastic.
Your dad is awesome. oh the horror you must have experienced in the back seat when the cop came to the window. awesome.

Posted by: irene of the north at April 13, 2010 1:09 AM

Bloed, zweet, maar geen tranen @ eerste optreden ever met 't bandje

Posted by: Seattle Limo at July 7, 2010 12:12 AM

A tip to save some dollars when watching films it that in place of heading to the movie theater on a busy sunday try out renting your films. The average cost to lease a DVD is a lot less than 1 / 2 the cost of just one movie ticket at your average theater. Another incentive is that you might probably lease around 4 movies via your own localized video shop for the equivalent value as 2 tickets at the theater.

Posted by: Watch Grown Ups Free Online HQ at July 11, 2010 8:25 PM

Anyone know what the song is called that Will Ferrell was playing in the car on their way to the job?

Posted by: Jesse at July 31, 2010 10:12 AM

The 2010 Emmy Awards very were an exquisite sight to see. Particularly Temple Grandin. I'm thus happy for her.

Posted by: Gold Berg at August 30, 2010 5:24 PM

Dwayne Johnson and Samuel Jackson are the best part of this movie, and their early demise is pretty funny. Occasional good jokes can't save this dog - at the end of the film you check your watch and realize that while it wasn't as long as it seemed to be, it was still time you will never get back.

Posted by: Duncan Brayman at September 22, 2010 5:43 PM

Dwayne Johnson and Samuel Jackson are the best part of this movie, and their early demise is pretty funny. Occasional good jokes can't save this dog - at the end of the film you check your watch and realize that while it wasn't as long as it seemed to be, it was still time you will never get back.

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