The Other Guys: Difference between revisions

** He could also be the [[Max Payne (Film)|other]] Wahlberg's cop role.

** And Gamble yelling at length about injuries (or even a ''hangover'') comes all the way from his role in the first two [[Austin Powers]] movies.

** While doing [[Samuel L Jackson]]'s paperwork, Will Farrell hums the theme from ''S.W.A.T.'' Jackson played Hondo in [[The Movie]].

* [[Adam Westing]]: [[Samuel L Jackson]] and [[Dwayne Johnson]] taking their typecast roles.

'''Allen''': Okay, first off: a lion? Swimming in the ocean? Lions don't like water. If you'd placed it near a river or some sort of fresh water source, that'd make sense. But you find yourself in the ocean, twenty foot waves, I'm assuming it's off the coast of South Africa, coming up against a full-grown, 800 pound tuna with his twenty or thirty friends? You lose that battle. You lose that battle nine times out of ten. }}

* [[An Aesop]]: Just because corporations can get away with rampant greed legally doesn't make it okay. Arguably [[Anvilicious]], but since this movie came out just after the [[Credit Crunch]] and resulting crisis, it's largely a case of [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped]].

* [[Affably Evil]]: Given that he's a [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]], a perv, and [[Evil Brit|British]], Ershon would seem to be prime [[Big Bad]] material, but the film ultimately involves the heroes saving him from worse people, and he's so disarming and charming that he's hard not to like.

* [[The Alleged Car]]: The Prius is slowly transformed into this during the course of the movie, from hobo orgies to ''gunfire''.

** Also after the explosion, his wooden gun is in its holster, then on the ground, then in its holster again.

* [[Blunt Metaphors Trauma]]: Hoitz, half of the time. "I'm a peacock; you gotta let me fly!"

* [[Brick Joke]]: In the beginning of the film Will Ferrell's character is convinced to do a "desk pop". When he fires his gun in Mark Wahlberg's apartment, he offhandedly says "Apartment pop". The [[Binge Montage]] even has a couple of "bar pops".

** The {{spoiler|flying peacock}} at the end of the movie.

** After Ershon learns that Gamble calls himself "Gator," he is shown in prison wearing a T-shirt bearing the logo of the University of Florida Gators.

* [[Brutal Honesty]]: Mrs. Gamble is a little too forward about her sex life, even to her parents.

* [[Bullet Time]]

* [[Car Fu]]: "It turned backwards, then it went upside down!"

* [[Cassandra Truth]]: After a couple of botch-ups, the rest of the police stop believing Gamble and Hoitz.

* [[Commander Contrarian]]: Partially subverted. Captain Mauch secretly knows the truth about the plot, but tries to stop Hoitz and Gamble precisely because he knows how dangerous it is.

** Further subverted in while Gamble and Hoitz give him no small measure of grief and force him to chastise them over and over, he's completely pleasant with them outside the office.

* [[Cringe Comedy]]: Oh boy....

* [[Cut His Heart Out With a Spoon]]: Roger Wesley threatens to slice David Ershon's ear off with a butterknife. Ershon even lampshades it by saying, "Oh, that's blunt. Blunt's worse than if it's sharp."

** She never actually seems to pay too much attention to his insults. It's treated more like he just mocks her for himself and never intends to actually hurt her.

* [[Don't Explain the Joke]]: "'Cause it's the FBI, right? It has the same logo, the same shield. And at first glance you're like 'Oh, it's just a mug that says FBI', but... but then at second glance you're like 'F-Female Body Inspector? Get outta town! This is outrage-'"

** He is more of [[The Heavy]] than this, really.

* [[Dropped a Bridge On Him]]: You gotta wonder how [[Samuel L Jackson]] and [[Dwayne Johnson]] could sign on for a movie where {{spoiler|their characters are killed in the first twenty minutes over a stupidly hilarious stunt gone horribly awry.}}

*** Actually, [[Doing It for The Art|given both of their approach to acting,]] how much they're both known for loving what they do, and how fun both of those role obviously were, it's not that hard to explain.

*** Also, given how both have already done films that make fun of their action hero typecasting, it makes sense.

* [[Epic Fail]]: With Danson and Highsmith {{spoiler|"Aim for the bushes"}}

* [[Every Car Is a Pinto]]: A helicopter. Also, the Escalade in the beginning.

{{quote| "Mr. Ershon, Detective Gamble and the officer who shot Derek Jeter here."}}

* [[Eyedscreen]]: kicking off the movie's climax from the boardroom (see [[Guns Akimbo]] above) onwards.

* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: The trailers always show Mark Wahlberg's character playing the [[Straight Man]] to Will Ferrell's antics. The truth is Detective Hoitz is just as crazy as Gamble, if not crazier.

** Actually, it becomes apparent that {{spoiler|Hoitz is masking his gentle side with juvenile antics while Gamble's self-imposed control hides a borderline psychotic personality}}.

** "How do they walk away in movies without flinching when it explodes behind them!? There's no way! I CALL BULLSHIT ON THAT! When they flew the Millenium Falcon outside of the Death Star and it was followed by the explosion, that was bullshit!"

*** "Don't you DARE bad-mouth Star Wars, that was ALL accurate!"

** "I got so drunk last night I think I thought a tube of toothpaste was astronaut food!"

* [[Not the Fall That Kills You]]: '''Subverted.'''

** Plus, well, it's funnier coming from the black guy, who's talking to a grade school class, showing off about being a successful cop.

* [[The Plot Reaper]]: The two supercops die, so Hoitz and Gamble have a chance at being in the spotlight.

* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: [[Foo Fighters (Music)|Foo Fighters]]' "My Hero" just before {{spoiler|two heroic cops jump 20 stories straight into the sidewalk.}}

* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]

* [[Take Up My Sword]]: The entire plot of the movie revolves around cops who feel that it is their time to step up and prove themselves in order to {{spoiler|replace the two heroes of the setting when they die in the line of duty}}.

** Subverted in that, {{spoiler|thought Hoitz and Gamble ended up becoming heroes for exposing the white collar crime that was going to bankrupt the police pension fund, they don't become the heroic replacement super cops. They stay the Other Guys, who the film makes out to be the real heroes: the guys who don't look spectacular saving the day, but do it nonetheless.}}

* [[Troperrific]]

* [[True Art Is Incomprehensible]]: Zigzagged. In the unrated version, they parody modern art with a coffee table with junk on it, then it turns out Hoitz understands the "artsy-fartsy" piece better than his artistically inclined ex does and still thinks its crap. Then his genuine tirade is critiqued and cheered on as if it was provocative performance piece.

{{quote| '''Terry:''' "Seriously, who ''is'' she?"}}

* [[Unflinching Walk]]: Averted, but...

* [[Watch the Paint Job]]: Boy, does that Prius suffer.

* [[Waxing Lyrical]]: Captain Mauch swears he doesn't know he's quoting [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT-6v5YakbU&feature=related TLC.]

* [[White Collar Crime]]: The credits detail not only some of the legit (but often greedy or stupid) finances that got us into the credit crunch, but also some of the now blatant criminality of some financial practices, such as a Ponzi scheme.

* [[World of Cardboard Speech]]: {{spoiler|Gamble/Gator gets one of these when he allows himself to lose control (just a little).}}