This film, from the director of Anchorman and more lately The Big Short, is surprisingly successful at mixing broad, obvious comedy with a sharper, more successful edge. Ferrell displays a goofy likeability which is sometimes missing but I have his best interests at heart. Wahlberg is brilliant as the very angry Terry, whose occasional outbursts at his partner are very angry and funny. Un unexpected comedy force. Director at McKay mixes comedy wih action perfectly - it's interesting as well…

The most disappointing experience in a cinema for quite some time, not because it's unoriginal (it is) but because it's so lazy and cynical. All the Star Wars tropes are here but thrown into the mix with such a clunking lack of subtlety it's hard to know whether the filmmakers were working from a script or just a checklist. Plot wise there are some minor irritants (just how was Luke's lightsabre recovered from the surface of a gas planet? And…

This is the second film I ever saw in the cinema (after The Empire Strikes Back), as a fresh faced 5 year old, back in 1980. As such, it's virtually impossible to review objectively at all, simply because it holds such sentimental - nay spiritual - significance for me. Watching it back now, even taking account 36 years distance, it's undeniably ropey in places - arguably just generally bad - but overall it's still a huge amount of fun.

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