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It's doubtful there'll be much of an audience to drink it up. The movie's fudged-out lack of funniness starts with Shepard, who plays Baker with a stoned version of his usual fast-break timing. Baker, in addition to being a drug addict, is a whipped husband married to a princess who keeps him in the doghouse (she's played by Kristen Bell, Shepard's real-life spouse), and after too much couples' counseling, he's become an L. therapy-head who jabbers on about things like "closure" and "deflecting. " But he's also a junk-food junkie and testy violent daredevil. He's whatever Dax Shepard feels like playing at any given moment, so the character never quite gels. Peña's "Ponch" is a more amusing presence, a level-headed macho hard case who can't believe he has to put up with such a flaky partner. Peña knows how to understate, even when Ponch can barely contain his libido around a woman in yoga pants. There is also, of course, much winky homoerotic slapstick panic between the two men, including a face-meets-nutsack moment that looks like it was a lot funnier for the actors than it turns out to be for us.
Much better movie than the ratings suggest. It's definitely a formula buddy-cop movie, lots of action and crude jokes for sure, but I thought it was pretty funny and the cast had a lot of chemistry. Honestly, if this had been completely true to the family-friendly original series, it Much better movie than the ratings suggest. Honestly, if this had been completely true to the family-friendly original series, it would've been boring. I think most of the negativity is related to the sex jokes, some being homophobic and some just being pervy-gross, but at the end of the day it's a funny "bros before hos" type of buddy movie and this is 2017 not 1977. … Expand