Special Agent Sarah Ashburn (Sandra Bullock) is a super successful member of the New York office of the FBI. When an opening for a senior level position is opened, she naturally goes for it. Her boss, Hale (Demian Bichir) will give her the position if she goes to Boston to solve a set of grisly murders in the criminal underworld, all involved in the drug trade. There, she teams up with local detective Shannon Mullins (Melissa McCarthy), a tough cop who has her own style of cleaning up the streets.
This film really works and is really funny. Good buddy cop movies are really hard to pull off (Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot, anyone), but Paul Feig has a comic sensibility that is perfect and I really feel as though he has found a muse in McCarthy (Bridesmaids).
Sandra Bullock has never really appealed to me as a comedienne (although I know she can make fun of herself, having personally received the Golden Raspberry for All About Steve), but she can really hold her own and has a great chemistry with McCarthy.
McCarthy is just hilarious playing this tough cop who will do anything to bring down the bad guys, including playing Russian roulette with a man's balls. Her tough exterior is brought down in her relationship with her drug dealing brother, whom she wants to rehabilitate. The rest of her family is a fantastic caricature of a Boston family unit, complete with everyone dropping their r's.
There is also a ton of great cameos from a range of comedic actors, including Tony Hale (Arrested Development), Kaitlin Olson (It's Always Sunny) and Thomas F. Wilson (Freaks and Geeks, Back to the Future).
Verdict: A hilarious twist on the buddy cop genre with plenty of laughs, but also has a sensitive side to it.
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