The Heat
The Heat another addition to the female raunchy comedy. This movie is the woman buddy cop film it hits all the notes of a buddy cop movie. You have two unlikely partners that are forced to work together in unorthodox ways to solve a crime. In no way is this movie like any Lethal Weapon, because it misses a lot of the key notes of making a good buddy cop film.
The Heat starts out with Ashburn (Sandra Bullock) busting some gun runners and being all cocky about how good she is. This is the part of the movie where they make the FBI seem like the only reason why they don't except her is because she is a woman. Later you find out it is because she is completely incompetent she can't do the basic detective stuff her only skill is figuring out where people hid things. The film then cuts to Mullins (Melissa McCarthy) and she starts out busting this guy for getting a prostitute in the most amazingly funny way imaginable. In no way is anything her character does no considered police brutality, but it's a comedy so you have to stretch the realm of reality. Eventually the two meet up and are forced to team up to take down this mysterious drug lord. One knock against this is the fact that you can get pretty close to figuring out who the drug lord is based on clichés in movies in the past. Now I mentioned that these two don't have chemistry that you would need to pull of a good buddy cop film. If you disagree with me that's fine, but here's my argument. The way they start out is fine them hating each other, which is how they all start out. Then the middle is just Melissa McCarthy being a complete shit bird to Sandra Bullock for the majority of the movie. No one in their right mind would put up with this shit, but yet again I have to think that this is a movie so no one is in their right mind. Usually in these kind of movies they would go back and forth zinging each other and get this odd bond to them. In this one Ashburn is such a pansy she just sits there and just takes all the abuse like some battered house wife. They still become friends but it just has you thinking wow there is no reason they should ever speak again.
The movie is still funny for the first two acts of the film regardless of the problems I have with the characters. Melissa McCarthy is so damn funny I was crying from laughter. Where the film fails miserably is the third act. That is so crucial for a movie to succeed in that it's not funny. The climax of the film is well very, very un-climatic. The worst was the resolution. This ending is the exact kind of ending that Kiss Kiss Bang Bang makes fun of, it's that cliché of an ending. This was so bad I marked the movie a whole rating just because of it.
The director is Paul Feig his last film was Bridesmaids. That shows cause the comedy in this is great and he knows how to make Melissa McCarthy at her best. The thing is he doesn't know crime movies what so ever, he was mostly a off and on TV director before Bridesmaids. The writer is the one I blame for this script though. She is Katie Dippold, she is a writer for MADtv, and nothing else. It explains why this movie had so many clichés and characters that didn't connect, and yet was still funny.
In the end this movie isn't complete garbage if you Redbox this you won't be disappointed just don't expect anything you haven't seen before. The movie is funny with a shitty plot. Both main actresses do a fine job with the characters they are set to play, while the side actors are just there. I'm being generous with this rating but I give it a 2.5 out of 5.
The Heat starts out with Ashburn (Sandra Bullock) busting some gun runners and being all cocky about how good she is. This is the part of the movie where they make the FBI seem like the only reason why they don't except her is because she is a woman. Later you find out it is because she is completely incompetent she can't do the basic detective stuff her only skill is figuring out where people hid things. The film then cuts to Mullins (Melissa McCarthy) and she starts out busting this guy for getting a prostitute in the most amazingly funny way imaginable. In no way is anything her character does no considered police brutality, but it's a comedy so you have to stretch the realm of reality. Eventually the two meet up and are forced to team up to take down this mysterious drug lord. One knock against this is the fact that you can get pretty close to figuring out who the drug lord is based on clichés in movies in the past. Now I mentioned that these two don't have chemistry that you would need to pull of a good buddy cop film. If you disagree with me that's fine, but here's my argument. The way they start out is fine them hating each other, which is how they all start out. Then the middle is just Melissa McCarthy being a complete shit bird to Sandra Bullock for the majority of the movie. No one in their right mind would put up with this shit, but yet again I have to think that this is a movie so no one is in their right mind. Usually in these kind of movies they would go back and forth zinging each other and get this odd bond to them. In this one Ashburn is such a pansy she just sits there and just takes all the abuse like some battered house wife. They still become friends but it just has you thinking wow there is no reason they should ever speak again.
The movie is still funny for the first two acts of the film regardless of the problems I have with the characters. Melissa McCarthy is so damn funny I was crying from laughter. Where the film fails miserably is the third act. That is so crucial for a movie to succeed in that it's not funny. The climax of the film is well very, very un-climatic. The worst was the resolution. This ending is the exact kind of ending that Kiss Kiss Bang Bang makes fun of, it's that cliché of an ending. This was so bad I marked the movie a whole rating just because of it.
The director is Paul Feig his last film was Bridesmaids. That shows cause the comedy in this is great and he knows how to make Melissa McCarthy at her best. The thing is he doesn't know crime movies what so ever, he was mostly a off and on TV director before Bridesmaids. The writer is the one I blame for this script though. She is Katie Dippold, she is a writer for MADtv, and nothing else. It explains why this movie had so many clichés and characters that didn't connect, and yet was still funny.
In the end this movie isn't complete garbage if you Redbox this you won't be disappointed just don't expect anything you haven't seen before. The movie is funny with a shitty plot. Both main actresses do a fine job with the characters they are set to play, while the side actors are just there. I'm being generous with this rating but I give it a 2.5 out of 5.