Starsky & Hutch DVD: Review By justincase

Starsky (Stiller) and Hutch (Wilson) are paired for the first time to bring down a big-time drug kingpin in Bay City.

Was I absent from the pitch meeting for 1970's comedies? What the h*ll gives? Why do we have to suffer through the comedic mechanations of both the Angels and these Bay City cops? Funny...funny...funny... gotta be funny. WHY!? If you can't put a straight face on the thing and do it that way... DON'T DO IT! I don't recall Charlie's Angels OR Starsky & Hutch being FUNNY.

So...instead of a reasonably entertaining throwback to the '70s, we gotta deal with some campy crapola served up with the comedic "it" troupe of today. Toss in a couple of shapely bimbos and you've got ... $88 million at the box office.

It truly is a slap in the face. Hopefully, we don't have to deal with this stuff again in "II". Maybe they could ALL make fools of themselves and get the Angels together with Starsky & Hutch and they can do a little 3 on 2 and throw in some pick-up full court b-ball while they're at it?

Alright. I'm done venting. Look, if you can get past the idiocy dished out by Hollywood on these campy remakes of reasonably serious '70s TV shows, then this movie wasn't that bad. Stiller and Wilson play a great team and are pretty funny together. As a comedy, it works pretty well. As a police "drama" (which I seem to recall the TV show was), it fails ... miserably. They should have just not tried to "remake" the show, but -- rather -- done a movie about Starsky & Hutch "after the street" -- detailing the comedic tragedies that their lives became as they passed their primes and became old cops. THAT could have been funny and not offensive to those that remember the original series.

Basic, basic, basic.

Gag Reel, Deleted Scenes, Behind the Scenes, Commentary and some knee-deep polyester steaming doggy doo from Snoop Dogg about the fashion of his character "Huggy Bear".

Skip it. I should have. I just wanted to find out why the director felt like he couldn't make a reasonably serious movie. I was disappointed by not getting any answer from any of these materials.

A decent comedy, but a piss-poor remake. If you're bored on a Friday night and are about to drift off to sleep, throw it in. It is about average entertainment and...I guess that will have to be good enough.