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...though there's no inherent reason why they shouldn't be. They're just meant to set a couple of cute guys, some interchangeable girlfriends and character actors (including a hair-netted Will Ferrell in creepy mode) into mildly amusing motion. You could argue that Vince Vaughn's master crook might be more mysterious and menacing. You could say that Snoop Dogg, as their informant Huggy Bear, could use some better dialogue, though he and Stiller do have a funny contretemps over his pet lizard. You could ... but why bother? This is not a movie to be deeply considered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: A Squad Couple | 3/8/2004 | See Source »

...deal yet with an undetectable strain of coke. With the help of Hutch’s street-smart, illicit informant Huggy Bear (aptly played by Hip-Hop and rap star Snoop Dogg), Starsky and Hutch go to all lengths—ludicrous disguises aplenty—to catch the crook. In the process the police partners develop their distinctively lasting dynamic, an enduring icon of 1970’s disco era television.  “The basis of show was their chemistry,” Stiller explains, “and that’s what we were...

Author: By Christine Ajudua, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Stiller and Wilson, Starsky and Hutch | 2/27/2004 | See Source »

...lets her mail pile up unopened. Colonel Behrani (Kingsley), late of the Shah's Iranian air force, is her opposite. He's got it all totally, tightly together. He has one job on a road-construction crew, another as a convenience-store clerk. And he is, by hook or crook, eventually going to give his family an American life comparable in privilege to the one they enjoyed in the old country. Specifically, that means a house near a beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Seven Holiday Treats | 12/15/2003 | See Source »

...Crook] helped keep us together as a unit,” Mujalli says. “When one guy goes down, he reassures us that everything’s going to be fine, it’s going to work...

Author: By Brenda Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Line and Dine | 11/21/2003 | See Source »

...Although Crook has proven himself as a coach, he hasn’t quite picked up on the O-line’s brand of humor, part of what they term the “O-line mentality...

Author: By Brenda Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Line and Dine | 11/21/2003 | See Source »

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