The film Cop Out has so many things going for it, including an hilarious script, a strong cast, and a director who knows how to make their actors give their all.  I really enjoyed the film, and those that like a little slapstick combined with situation comedy should be commenting about it for days.  Although the film is skewed for a male audience, women can enjoy it just as much.

Detectives Monroe (Willis) and Hodges (Morgan) have been partners for years, and unlike most buddies, their ways of good cop bad cop interrogation are very different.  Following a busted stakeout, the two find themselves on the bad side of their captain.  In fact, so bad they are put on leave without pay.  This puts Monroe in a pickle since he needed the money to help pay for his daughter's upcoming wedding. Stuck for dough, he decides to sell his rare 1952 Pafko baseball card.  When a gang leader that’s a memorabilia freak steals it, Monroe and Morgan hatch a scheme to get it back.

The comedic chemistry between Willis and Morgan is extremely good, and I put it up there with Mel Gibson and Danny Glover in the Lethal Weapon series.  In some scenes I found myself aching from laughter, especially when they have Seann William Scott in the back seat of their car -- the interrogation of a pint-size car thief, in the very beginning of the film.  This is Tracy Morgan at this best, but he talks so fast with the Bronx accent that I had a problem getting all the slapstick. 

Kevin Smith goes all out in directing this film. You can see he sat back and let Morgan do his thing in most scenes, bouncing his style of comedy off Willis without regard to the script.  And it was the right thing to do, because his Clerks, Jay and Silent Bob type of off-handed humor would not have worked here.  Sure the film is silly at times, but like Martin Lawrence in Blue Streak and Jimmy Fallon in Taxi (2004), it turns up the volume on laughter.

The film is rated R for pervasive language including sexual references, violence and brief sexuality.  Remember these guys are New York cops, and in the situations they find themselves I don’t think they would have been saying "oh fudge."

FINAL ANALYSIS:  If it's side-splitting humor you are looking for, then this buddies film should pump you up.

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