The slightly different cops

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Movie
German title The slightly different cops
Original title The Other Guys
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2010
length 107 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Adam McKay
script Chris Henchy
Adam McKay
production Adam McKay
Will Ferrell
Jimmy Miller
Patrick Crowley
music Jon Brion
camera Oliver Wood
cut Brent White
occupation

Cops with a difference is an American action comedy directed by Adam McKay . The film premiered on August 6, 2010 in the United States. It was released in German cinemas on October 14, 2010. The comedy was produced by the joint production company of director Adam McKay and lead actor Will Ferrell ( Gary Sanchez Productions ).

action

The "Supercops" Highsmith and Danson of the NYPD solve all their cases with excessive firearm use, causing huge collateral damage in the process . Nevertheless, they are celebrated as heroes and always find colleagues who do the "paperwork" for them. Detective Allen Gamble is one of them. He is an expert in white-collar crime and rejects all assignments that go beyond the back office. His partner Detective Terry Hoitz was transferred to him after he accidentally shot baseball player Derek Jeter . The two clash again and again because Hoitz is more of the rough cop who would do anything to finally make a name for himself and Gamble is nice and friendly to everyone while they only make fun of him. After Gamble is seduced by colleagues into using firearms in the course of an alleged initiation rite in the office, Gamble's boss retracts his weapon and instead hands him a wooden dummy.

When Highsmith and Danson die in a mission because of their extreme overconfidence, Hoitz is determined to take their place. In fact, he can persuade Gamble to go out into the field, as the latter is investigating financial investor Sir David Ershon because of minor details of building law. But he has much bigger problems and is downright delighted to be arrested by Gamble and Hoitz. Shortly afterwards, however, the two are attacked and Ershon "kidnapped" by strangers.

Slowly the two realize that they are on to something bigger. But neither their captain nor their lawyer Beaman want to believe them, also because failures put obstacles in their way. Beaman commits suicide shortly afterwards because of threats. In the course of the plot it also turns out that Gamble is extremely popular with women and worked as a pimp while studying , but then renounced violence. Gamble and Hoitz find out that Ershon is being forced into illegal transactions by backers that are said to be at the expense of the NYPD's pension fund .

In the end, the two Ershon have to protect Ershon from his pursuers for a night so that he can stop the crucial money transfer the next morning. Roger Wesley, who was supposed to oversee the crooked business on behalf of Ershon's boss, wants to make sure that the transfer is carried out. There is a big shootout in the course of which Gamble and Hoitz are shot, but survive. They are ultimately respected by their captain, although not celebrated as heroes, but according to the spokesman, they are not who do the real work anyway. It's the cops who work hard all the time, "You know, the slightly different cops".

production

Filming began on September 23, 2009 in New York City.

reception

The slightly different cops received mostly positive reviews. On the Rotten Tomatoes website , the film achieved a rating of 78% based on 203 reviews. Metacritic got a score of 64 out of 35 reviews. The film service said: "Entertaining parody of action buddy movies that thrives on the verbal battles between the two dissimilar main characters as well as a firework of absurd ideas and with relish pulling the hero images of the genre through the cocoa."

Trivia

As the running gag of the film, Captain Gene Mauch quotes lines from songs by the band TLC , including No Scrubs (“I don't want no scrubs”), Waterfalls (“One more thing, do me a favor; don't go chasing waterfalls”) . ") And Creep (" You gotta creep. Creep, creep "). He also alludes to the album titles CrazySexyCool and Fanmail . When asked about it by Gamble and Hoitz several times, he denies knowing TLC at all.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for the slightly different cops . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2010 (PDF; test number: 123 836 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for the slightly different cops . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Peter Dimako: Anne Heche joins Cedar Rapids and The Other Guys. (No longer available online.) MovieJungle.com, October 29, 2009, archived from the original on January 3, 2013 ; accessed on August 10, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.moviejungle.com
  4. ↑ Tatiana Siegel: Anne Heche Picks Up Gigs. Variety , October 28, 2009, accessed August 10, 2010 .
  5. ^ The Other Guys Starts Principal Photography. ComingSoon.com, September 23, 2009, accessed August 10, 2010 .
  6. ↑ The slightly different cops at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
  7. ↑ The slightly different cops at Metacritic (English)
  8. ↑ Filmdienst.de: The slightly different cops
  9. ↑ Dan Wakefield: 10 Greatest Running Gags In Movies - 7th TLC - The Other Guys. In: whatculture.com. February 27, 2014, accessed January 4, 2018 .

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