Ah yes the buddy movie , a short lived sub genre that existed in the late 1980s and became extinct sometime in the early 90s . Perhaps the fact there`s a very limited milage you can expect to get out of matching two mismatched characters in a movie had everthing to do with it ?
Newly released con Nick Nolte walks into a bank being held up by Martin Short and then it`s non existent laughs all the way . The problem is director Francis Veber treats the film as high farce rather than comedy which means it all ends up being silly rather the funny , most of the cast are OTT except mainly Nick Nolte who plays the straight man but even he hams it when he`s called on to be funny
The only funny bit is where Nolte gets into a fight with cops which is life imitating art rather humour
Newly released con Nick Nolte walks into a bank being held up by Martin Short and then it`s non existent laughs all the way . The problem is director Francis Veber treats the film as high farce rather than comedy which means it all ends up being silly rather the funny , most of the cast are OTT except mainly Nick Nolte who plays the straight man but even he hams it when he`s called on to be funny
The only funny bit is where Nolte gets into a fight with cops which is life imitating art rather humour