Movies

With a tag line "rock out with your Glock out" you would be silly to expect anything other than the most juvenile of comedies. Fresh from his "too fat for an airplane" controversy, director Kevin Smith has well and truly sold out and left behind the lo-fi indie charm of cult favourites like " Clerks" and "Chasing Amy". Instead "Cop Out" is bursting with all the slick production money can buy when you are directing A-listers like Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan from "30 Rock". Willis and Morgan play two idiotic NYPD cops trying to recover a stolen mint-condition baseball card to help pay for Jimmy's (Willis) daughter's wedding. Somehow Mexican drug lords and a stoner thief played by Sean William Scott ("American Pie") get involved. The hijinks that follow including a hilarious scene with a 10-year-old car thief are presumably Smith's homage to the "Lethal Weapon"-style cop buddy flicks of the '80s. None of the actors have to work too hard with what is a pretty flimsy script. Morgan seems to be playing his "30 Rock" character and Willis just puts a comic spin on his Die Hard routine. As a movie it isn't great, but the individual scenes are hilarious. Lower your expectations and prepare to laugh and "Cop Out" can be great fun.