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2004
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Positive Reviews
42
Negative reviews
11
Average Rating
3.2
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4.5
His new film looks better, is brisker and breezier, and doesnt telegraph and belabor gags as clumsily.
Av Club
1.5
His sinsemilla inflected delivery is appropriate to the role, but hes not Antonio Fargas.
Austin Chronicle
3.0
A MacGuffin like this practically begs for less comedy and more documentary.)
Austin Chronicle
2.5
With so many cool peeps attached to this project, I was expecting to be bowled over in laughs, style, fun and overall entertainment value, but what I ..
JoBlo
2.5
Starsky and Hutch helped refine the mix of action, wisecracking and intense male bonding between mismatched partners that made buddy cop pictures what ..
Tv Guide
3.8
Its like going to a party.When you think back and laugh, youre picturing many happy faces.
Combust Ible Celluloid
3.8
Given the genre, Old School director Todd Phillips happily limits the brutality and rampant property destruction that once gave Lethal Weapon pics suc ..
Usa Today
3.5
The script is good enough for a lot of smiles, if not a lot of big laughs.
Lariat
3.2
But though it certainly has its moments, it never achieves a high level of hilarity.
Eric Ds Nider
3.5
The film could be funnier; Phillips seems preoccupied with getting the style right.
Shadows On The Wall
4.0
The result is an affectionate spoof with a decent hit rate of gags thatll keep you smiling all the way through.
View London
2.5
The title characters are wittily crafted by Messrs. Stiller and Wilson, and Snoop Dogg is a riot as Huggy Bear.
Cs Monitor
3.8
President Donald Trump on Sunday appeared to change his story about a 2016 meeting at Trump Tower that is pivotal to the special counsels investigatio ..
Star Tribune
3.5
Although not a fan of the original series, watching this entertaining Starsky & Hutch movie version made me nostalgic for the seventies its disco musi ..
Reel Talk Reviews
3.1
A lot of the beats are a bit too familiar from previous entries in the series, which isnt surprising given that this is the fifth film to play off the ..
Q Network
3.2
Phillips, who started out making creepy (and funny) documentaries, has become a canny repackager of yesterdays schlock a mall friendly purveyor of arr ..
Ew
2.5
Its basically a time killer with a lot of forgettable jokes that go on way too long many times, and many of the gags just made me furrow my brows and ..
Cinema Crazed
2.5
Apart from some zoom lenses, director Phillips doesnt even do much to parody 70s filmmaking styles.
Slate
4.0
But nobody cares if cut to the gag editing strips action and logic to the bone, just so long as the jokes are worth waiting for.
Empire
4.0
Will Ferrell contributes a funny cameo as a prisoner.But the movie is all about the chemistry between Stiller and Wilson, who bring out the best in ea ..
Common Sense Media
3.8
Starsky & Hutch is funny throughout, but with a handful of really hilarious moments of a kind that most comedies just dont deliver.
Sf Gate
3.0
Big on potential, short on really big laughs, its a buddy cop comedy which coasts on the charisma and chemistry of its stars.
Bbc
3.0
And it must be said that tense, tidy Ben Stiller and loose, louche Owen Wilson are perfectly cast in this movie version of the old TV series.It must a ..
Time
1.9
The film, steeped in the decades (and the shows) superficial accoutrements, is a cornucopia of oversized collared jackets, classic funk and rock tunes ..
Slant Magazine
3.0
The writer and director Todd Phillipss big screen adaptation of Starsky & Hutch has a crafty, can you dig it spirit, derived from his affection for th ..
The New York Times
2.5
Its the lazy way out, and it is a path Phillips more often than not takes.
The Movie Boy
3.0
Its a pretty basic concept to stretch into a feature length film, so its no surprise that director Todd Phillips strikes nostalgic gold, squeezing jus ..
Bullz-Eye
3.2
Earl may only have brief screen time but the comedian/actor captures the funny moments every time.
Reeling Reviews
3.8
However, while The Brady Bunch Movie lost momentum because it was essentially a one joke concept, Starsky and Hutch manages to be just funny enough to ..
ReelViews
3.1
Without the manic and hilarious Stiller the breezy and unaffected Wilson the ultra cool hip hopper Snoop Dogg and the wry and flippant Vaughn Starsky ..
Hollywood
2.8
Those with no emotional investment, however, will probably find it an enjoyably absurd, if instantly forgettable, satire of 70s TV cop extravagances.
Seattle Pi
4.0
It takes what sounds like a script left over from the television series and gets its actors to play it fairly straight.
Standard
2.0
Hes got talent and charm, but keeps getting stuck in these terrible films.
Tony Medley
3.2
But if youre going into the movie cold, youll have the pleasure of being surprised by some perfectly set up comic gags that hinge on Wilsons and Still ..
Coles Mithey
2.5
If the filmmakers had embraced those characters rather than letting Stiller and Wilson play their usual screen personas, this would have been a funnie ..
Pajiba
1.9
Good movie, bad movie, hes just out to have some fun, and his talent lies in letting the audience in on it.
Spliced Wire
3.1
And yet the film generally remains quite watchable (and occasionally engrossing), with Teller and Hill delivering absolutely captivating performances ..
Reel Film
3.8
Outside the Precinct The movie benefits from a cast of colorful characters.
Movie Habit
2.5
Toronto is segregated by race and income.And the numbers are ugly Research led by U of Ts David Hulchanski shows the concentration of visible minoriti ..
The Star
3.8
There are specific nods to the shows style, as well as re created material from specific episodes.Longtime fans will get it, but at least some in the ..
Deseret News
5.0
Every decade, once complete, matures in the collective memory at its own pace.
Urban Cine File
4.4
The movie takes place deep in the heart of the seventies and many of the jokes are a result of that.
Three Movie Buffs
3.1
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Kansas City
2.5
While its never plain bad, the film is not really plain good, and very seldom plain funny.
Ross Anthony
3.1
Starsky & Hutch Review By Joe Lozito View all articles by Joe Lozito Co writer/director Todd Phillips borrows the characters, style and macho swagger ..
Big Picture Big Sound
1.9
Didnt we get a lame 70s parody already a couple of years ago.Theres some idiotic plot about a new kind of cocaine that cant be detected (New Coke), wh ..
Montreal Film Journal
2.5
The Afro Cuban rhythms are infectious, and though the leads arent great hoofers, JoAnn Jansens sinuous choreography cleverly disguises the fact.This s ..
News Week
3.5
You will be able to save yourself from getting disappointed of watching nothing but a lame movie.
Window To The Movies
1.0
I like to watch the piss taken out of me, says David Soul, chain smoking in an armchair at the Dorchester hotel in central London.
Film Guardian
2.2
Its all too timid and too easily derived to leave much of a mark.
Flip Side Archive
3.5
Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller work well together. They always work well together. So, if youre a fan of the two, its worth seeing.
Fat Guys At The Movies
3.8
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Freep
4.0
Indeed, out of all their film collaborations, this is their finest partnership to date.
Future Movies
3.1
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Movie Eye
2.0
What do you get when you add four screenwriters, five producers, and two leads who cant work outside of their own material Starsky & Hutch
Films Nobs
3.1
Still, the movie is plagued by this nagging feeling that the material is sometimes too silly for its own good (as if the sitcom approach completely co ..
Cinema Phile
2.0
Phillips obviously understands the pain and drama lurking underneath its juvenile regression, but you walk away with the feeling that the studio would ..
Web Archive
1.5
It doesnt merely go as far as it could it doesnt go anywhere at all.
Metro Weekly
3.5
After the massive reveal that Claudia Kims Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald character is actually the same being as Voldemorts snake, we br ..
Film Force Ign
1.5
Fun but forgettable, its Stiller and Wilson that make Starsky & Hutch worth a trip to the cineplex.
Fantastic A Daily
3.0
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Nyc Film Critic
5.0
Cartoonish but clever, with the bulk of the fun coming when Wilsons wry wit meets Stillers impatient officiousness head on.
Town Topics
3.5
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