Year: 2003
Writers: Jay Scherick, David Ronn
Cinematographer: Oliver Wood
Steve Zahn and Martin Lawrence are really funny together in this. I caught this on TV by chance and really liked it. I loved the sense of humor.
Pleasantly surprising comedy. I say that because normally action comedies just fall flat for me and I feel like I can see the guy getting hit in the balls or the fart joke coming from the top of a pointless scene.
This had a lot of racial comedy, and that racial tension and the tension between black men and white police officers specifically is ripe for comedic use. I think the reason this works better than a silly comedy by Will Ferrell or the typical white rent-a-cop character comedy is precisely because of that Black and White tension. Silly comedy will never be as funny as comedy that takes place with a backdrop of satire of a serious issue. It is the tension that makes the audience need to laugh, and we feel the tension drop when we see the conflict presented in such a way that it makes it okay for us to laugh at it.
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