Cop Out

Well, it isn't the usual Judd Apatow comedy that America seems to be used to now, but Cop Out worked. Tracy Morgan is funny as always and Bruce Willis is funny as he can be in a comedy film. Even though the script isn't a work of magic, as seen in The Hangover, it does provide plenty of moments that will have your side cramping. Cop Out is stupid, goofy fun.

The plot of Cop Out is well hidden by the trailers and not what was is expected. Jimmy (Bruce Willis) and Paul (Tracy Morgan) have been partners on the police force for 9 years and they not exactly conventional detectives. They tend to do things not by the book, and usually in a comical way. After the opening, Jimmy and Paul are suspended off the force for 30 days following the opening scenes. Unfortunately for Jimmy, his daughters wedding is in six weeks and he needs to come up with $48,000 to pay for it. Her step-dad is offering but being his daughters dad, Jimmy insists that he pay for it. He has no money so he comes up with a plan to sell an extremely rare baseball card that he has with an extremely high selling price. He finds a guy to sell it to only when he is the store, Dave (Seann William Scott and another guy come into rob the store. They end up tasering Jimmy and getting away with his baseball card. Jim and Paul begin their hilarious pursuit to get the card back in order to be able to pay for his daughters wedding. Along the way they become entangled up in a story that I'm convinced the writers even know what was happening. There's an 11 year old car thief, a pretty girl that can only speak Spanish and all the Mexicans guys with guns that showed for the auditions. Rashida Jones also has a small role in the film as Paul's wife. He's convinced that she's cheating on him. Right away, no the plot isn't exactly completely believable. Yes, there's a lot of things in in that would never happen, but with a comedy like this, who cares? The script isn't perfectly well written but it is Funny. Yes, that funny with a capital F. Willis and Morgan are hilarious. There's nothing worse than when in a film, there is a reference to another film that the actor in the film you're watching has been in. Take in this film, in which there is a reference to Die Hard and Willis says that he's never seen the film. God, why do they have to do things like that? Funny cop films have been done before, at this point hasn't everything but Cop Out manages to do what comedy films set out to do. Make you laugh. This isn't a smart film, absolutely zero intelligence, but it's funny. It succeeds in what it sets out to do.

Not that this is saying much, but Cop Out is funniest film of this year to date. Not a lot of the humor falls flat, it's at least chuckle worthy. Willis and Morgan are great together on screen in a film that should have you laughing throughout. If you feel like a comedy night out or in the mood for some laughs, Cop Out would be perfect. Hopefully everyone thinks it's as funny as my theater did. If not, I'm sorry. Not really.

Final Verdict: B-