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TRACY MORGAN<\/strong> and BRUCE WILLIS<\/strong> are two of New York City’s finest in the buddy-cop comedy Cop Out<\/em> now at\u00a0 area theaters<\/strong><\/p>\n By Maggie Scott<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>Director Kevin Smith is in more trouble than getting ejected from an airline flight for being fat.\u00a0 He\u2019s not going to be able to be defensive about\u2014or joke his way out of–\u2014the mess that\u2019s his latest movie, Cop Out<\/em>.\u00a0 In the hands of a lazy writer, the long-in-the-tooth buddy-cop genre can be numbingly stale.<\/p>\n Two lazy writers, Robb and Mark Cullen, are responsible for the creation of NYPD officers, Jim Monroe (Bruce Willis) and Paul Hodges (Tracy Morgan); partners for nine years in a style their supervisor describes as, \u201cThere\u2019s a right way and a wrong way to do police work.\u00a0 Then there\u2019s your way.\u201d\u00a0 And, he\u2019s not smiling when he says it, before asking the duo to surrender their badges and side arms.\u00a0 That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n First essential element of cop-buddy genre: Jimmy and Paul are suspended after shooting up a few quiet neighborhoods in pursuit of a drug dealer\u2019s gang member.\u00a0 That\u2019s right.\u00a0 Second essential element of the cop-buddy genre: make the villain a drug kingpin, preferably Mexican. \u201cPo Boy\u201d (Guillermo Diaz) has lost two valuable pieces of personal property: his girl Gabriela (Ana De La Reguera) and a memory stick containing some incriminating files.<\/p>\n Last seen in the trunk of a Mercedes, this property eventually finds its convoluted way to officers Monroe and Hodges thanks to a wise-acre burglar (Seann William Scott) who took off with the rare baseball card Monroe needed to sell to finance the upcoming five-figure wedding of his darling daughter (Michelle Trachtenberg), Ava.\u00a0 That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n Third essential element of the cop-buddy genre: give the officers domestic issues.\u00a0 In this case, Monroe is divorced and trying to prove he\u2019s no dead-beat to Ava\u2019s unctuous stepdad (Jason Lee), who has snidely offered to cover the wedding\u2019s cost.<\/p>\n Hodges, meanwhile, is so freaked out at the thought his wife might be cheating on him that he\u2019s got their bedroom staked out with a so-called \u201cnanny cam\u201d stuffed bear. Hodges\u2019 preoccupation becomes a bone of contention between the buddies and one opportunity among many to fulfill the fourth essential element of the cop-buddy genre:\u00a0 the partners must be affectionately at each other\u2019s throats due to distinct differences in intellect, temperament and style.<\/p>\n Monroe is a bust-heads-first-ask-questions-later rule-breaker with a menacing, moody mug; while Hodges is never far from spastic idiocy, whose verbal antics—most flamboyantly employed during his interrogation of a suspect using various \u201chomages\u201d to film characters—grow old fast.<\/p>\n The movie\u2019s title turns out to be ironic, as the lackadaisical oversight Smith has to the film\u2019s action and actors turns out to be a time-wasting cop-out all its own. A Warner Bros. release, rated R for copious profanity, violence, sexual content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TRACY MORGAN and BRUCE WILLIS are two of New York City’s finest in the buddy-cop comedy Cop Out now at\u00a0 area theaters By Maggie Scott Director Kevin Smith is in more trouble than getting ejected from an airline flight for being fat.\u00a0 He\u2019s not going to be able to be defensive about\u2014or joke his way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-travel","entry"],"yoast_head":"\n