We have to admit, we were a little sceptical about this one when we first heard about it. Sure, Paul Feig was certainly on to a great thing with Bridesmaids, a hilarious all-female leading cast, a great script and some brilliant gags, the film became the talk of the town. But could he re-create the brilliance he had managed to achieve with his next venture?
Let”s be honest about this, Sandra Bullock is just Hollywood gold, there is nothing that woman is involved with that does not work in some way, and we even mean the bad films. She is just so inherently charming and sweet that she is completely impossible not to like, men love her, women want to be her or at the very least, hang out with her. When the opportunity for a Feig film with a leading lady as a cop rolled around, Bullock would have been the most obvious choice.
However, the comic pairing of Bullock with arguably one of the funniest women working in Hollywood at the moment is a stroke of genius. Sure, Melissa McCarthy has been around for a bit (most will recognise her from the Gilmore Girls) but she really came into her own with Bridesmaids, in fact McCarthy stole the entire show.
The Heat revolves around Bullock’s FBI agent Ashburn is a very straight-laced cop, always out-performing her other colleagues, cracking the most cases and generally being a goody-two-shoes. However, she is not liked by her workmates and when an opportunity for promotion comes around, she has to prove to her boss that not only can she close the case, she can also get on with those working with her.
Ashburn is sent to to Boston to find an underground drug lord and bring him to justice, but in order for that to happen she must, of course, team up with the wayward Mullins, a cop that lives by her own set of rules, but still gets the job done. Over the film the inevitable happens, Mullins and Ashburn discover that not only do they work quite well together, they also begin to develop a sweet friendship.
More importantly, that friendship and the pairing of an obvious odd couple brings a lot of laughs. Unfortunately for our heroine Bullock, McCarthy steals the entire film yet again, delivering the best lines with razor sharp comedy timing that many in the business would envy.
Besides the obvious talent of the cast, the script is certainly a crowd-pleaser. Written by Katie Dippold, some of the greatest insults ever to grace the silver screen are uttered, insults that you will need to commit to memory for future arguments.
Although the plot itself is quite predictable, the laughs will get you through. This is certainly one that you need to check out and will even hold up for repeated viewings.
Our new favourite insult? Tattle tits.
