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Not Yet Reviewed:     4 Stars     Rated:     14A

Here comes the bacon with a side order of ham, pork, and a few knock-knock jokes in this crazy cranked-up comedy cop caper film called Cop Out,  directed by Kevin Patrick Smith

Plot: Nine year NYPD partners get themselves suspended when a set-up goes south.  Jimmy Monroe and Paul Hodges, played by Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan, track down a thief who stole Monroe’s rare baseball card.  This then leads them to a Mexican drug dealer and more trouble.

While I really enjoyed Cop Out it comprises two distinct genres that are seemingly incongruous, but, in this case they work together pretty well.  The story follows the two mismatched cops while they battle a drug cartel and handle a wisecracking thief (Sean William Scott).  The two main characters play off each other very well and while not a pairing you might expect to see it definitely worked.  Watch out for Sean William Scott who did, in my opinion, steal every scene he was in.

The movie had the entire audience in peals of laughter many times, but this was tempered by some pretty brutal scenes; there is no real gore or hard core violence, but you know what is going on without it being shown.  The comedy and the ‘hard’ violence are mostly kept separate, and I think this is what lets them work together, the movie makers didn’t try to make the violence funny.  If they had I don’t think I would have enjoyed it so much.  The comedy does come and go, but there were two scenes where it was hard to breathe from laughing.  I would say that the first 5 minutes alone definitely makes this Worth a Ticket so that you can experience the laughs with others.  Make sure you stay into the first part of the credits!

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-Andy Hughes

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