More Ford Escort than Torino (Starsky and Hutch: The Movie (DVD))

Member Name: paul88

Product:	Starsky and Hutch: The Movie (DVD)
Date:	13/08/09 (10 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Stiller and Wilson put in good performances

Disadvantages: So much lost potential

This film is based on the original 1970's TV series of the same name. David Starsky (Ben Stiller) is a cop with his mum's reputation hanging over him who does everything by the book. Ken Hutchinson (Owen Wilson) is the laid back cop who steals from bookies and hangs out with criminals. Both are partnered together for the first time in this film. A body washes up on the shore and Starsky is determined to get to the bottom of it whereas Hutch feels they would be better off pushing it back out to sea. Hutch is told by his informant, Huggy Bear (Snoop Dogg), that a big cocaine deal is going down in the city. Their enquiries lead them to Reese Feldman (Vince Vaughan) who is importing odourless and tasteless cocaine that sniffing dogs can't pick up. In Starsky's souped-up 1974 red and white Ford Torino they race round trying to find out the origin of the cocaine.

This film really didn't live up to the high expectations that it had. Despite fairly good performances from Stiller and Wilson the script really doesn't allow them to bring out their great comedy personas and the film suffers. However Carmen Electra was clearly only in the film because of her looks and shows no acting skills at all.


The film is OK but as I was expecting quite a bit from it this could have been why. It is still a very enjoyable film to watch but there is so much wasted potential.

Summary: A good film but really needed a better script