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(While they're there, Starsky competes in a dance-off that's a rip-off of the "walk-off" he participated in as Derek Zoolander).īut it's clear that Starsky and Hutch only have eyes for each other if the TV show had a vague homoerotic vibe, the movie practically outs them. They even go to a disco with a couple of cheerleaders (Carmen Electra and Amy Smart) who may have information on the killing. They pretend they're bikers in an "Easy Rider" take-off and play mimes to infiltrate Feldman's daughter's bat mitzvah. Really, though, the case is just an excuse for Starsky and Hutch to play dress-up. While investigating a murder, they suspect Reese Feldman (Vince Vaughn), a drug kingpin who has developed a special strain of cocaine ("New Coke," if you will) that's impossible for drug-sniffing dogs to detect. There is some semblance of a story line, though, and it entails showing us how opposites Starsky and Hutch ended up as partners on the mean streets of Bay City. (Snoop is a natural choice for the role, by the way, if only because he appears to have provided his own wardrobe.)īut the novelty of gawking with horrified fascination at the superfly style of the times grows old quickly, and the fact that this is a one-joke movie becomes painfully obvious after about 45 minutes - at which point, you're only about halfway done. "Old School" director Todd Phillips, who co-wrote the script with John O'Brien and his "Road Trip" writing partner Scot Armstrong, goes truly old school here, and the attention to detail is obsessive - from the bad perms and fu manchu mustaches to the 8-track tapes and pimped-out Lincoln Continental that Snoop Dogg drives as Huggy Bear, Starsky and Hutch's informant.
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Instead of male models, they play undercover cops who look like male models - or, rather, like male models look today in emulating the style Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul cultivated on the TV series nearly three decades ago, with sunglasses that were too big and jeans that were too small. They're obviously comfortable with each other and they can be fun to watch, though the script amounts to little more than a series of sketches, loosely held together by the grooves of a chicka-chicka-wa-wa soundtrack and the growls of Starsky's Gran Torino engine.īut Stiller (who plays Starsky) and Wilson (Hutch) have fallen into a predictable rut following nearly identical performances in "Meet the Parents," "The Royal Tenenbaums" and, most recently, "Zoolander." That these off-screen friends have established such an easy on-screen camaraderie is a good thing and a bad thing. Here, as in that 2001 movie about dimwitted male models, Stiller plays the uptight guy who takes himself way too seriously and Wilson plays the easygoing guy who everyone likes.
It's not so much a movie version of the 1970s buddy-cop TV show as it is "Zoolander" with guns. They could have played Ponch and John or Crockett and Tubbs or even Lenny and Squiggy - and they probably will some day.įor now, you can sit back and watch the sporadically amusing, comfortably numbing familiarity of Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson bouncing off each other in "Starsky & Hutch." NOW SHOWING: Bainbridge, Gig Harbor, Kitsap 8, Redwood, South Sound Fashion's the main attraction in 'Starsky & Hutch'įrom left, Snoop Dogg, Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson star in "Starsky & Hutch." AP photo by Elliot MarksĬAST: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Snoop Dogg, Vince Vaughn