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March 07, 2004
Starsky & Hutch - Go See This Movie!
Director Todd Phillips (Brooklyn reprazent!) strikes gold again with the just released Starsky & Hutch. While a huge fan of Phillips' previous films - Road Trip & the BRILLIANT Old School - I had initial reservations about this latest foray into '70s nostalgia. Between annoying movies like Charlie's Angels 1 & 2, and countless VH1 strikes back marathons, I feel like I've already relived my youth 2X over. Enough already!!
But this movie lives up to the hype! The plot is simple: Starsky (Ben Stiller) and Hutch (Owen Wilson) are Bay City police detectives determined to take down Jewish drug lord Reese Feldman (Vince Vaughn). Along the way, they get a little help from some ditzy cheerleaders (Carmen Electra & Amy Smart), and a lot of help from street informant Huggy Bear (Snoop Dogg).
Stiller and Wilson - in their sixth film together - exhibit powerful chemistry as the "Felix & Oscar" (respectively) of police detectives. Stiller plays his usual jilted everyman to a tee, with some exceptional character acting thrown in. Wilson is as charming...and hot...as ever, only heightened by his "Korean-speak" scene. As one can imagine, Snoop Dogg basically plays himself in this movie, but it works, fo' shizzle.
But the highlight of the movie is Will Ferrell's cameo as a jailed drug associate. You'll get hair nets and mucho sexual innuendo. The rest is just too good to spoil here.
Posted by Michele at March 7, 2004 10:22 PM
