2004 · comedy · crime · spy
Starsky & Hutch
Directed by Todd Phillips1h 41m2004
Join uptight David Starsky and laid-back Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson as they're paired for the first time as undercover cops. The new partners must overcome their differences to solve an important case with help from street informant Huggy Bear and persuasive criminal Reese Feldman.
Our read: Starsky & Hutch (2004) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded comedy · crime · spy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- brisk
- twisty
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