The Other Guys is the latest from Adam McKay and Will Ferrell and it serves as a great send up of the buddy cop genre with a consistently funny pacing and many flashes of brilliance along the way.

Allen Gamble and Terry Hoitz are not the guys, that title is held by Detectives Highsmith and Danson.  Gamble and Hoitz are the other guys on the force who push the pencil and do the paper work for the NYPD heroes.  Besides being the other guys of the office, Gamble and Hoitz are quite the odd couple of partners as well.  Gamble has long been behind a desk, in police accounting, and has worked his way up to detective but has no ambition to leave the office during the day.  Hoitz is the exact opposite.  Itching at any chance to get out on the streets and to be the guy, he unfortunately is in some hot water after an unfortunate incident in the Yankee club house.  But when Gamble uncovers a scaffolding permit violation the two begin to get wrapped up in a crime bigger than they could possibly imagine.

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