The Heat: Funny, could be way funnier
The Heat is hilarious. Sandra Bullock has always been great at physical comedy, and she’s abandoned many of her “adorable” romcom mannerisms (such as the facepalm and grimace combo). Melissa McCarthy is genius—check out her rant in the closing credits of Judd Apatow’s This is 40, where Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann have collapsed in laughter but she keeps going. Bullock and McCarthy play a stuck-up FBI agent and a maverick Boston cop who have to work together to take down a drug syndicate. Yes, you’ve seen that movie ten thousand times, but this one works on charm. Paul Feig’s (Bridesmaids) directorial approach is to stand back and let the ladies do the work—many comic opportunities slip by casually, and The Heat often feels too loose and formless. The result leaves us wondering what a Bullock and McCarthy movie might’ve been if the filmmakers had ambition.
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July 5th, 2013 at 21:43
I’ve always loved Bullock, and recently McCarthy’s just been emerging as a force to reckon with, so I did love “Heat” also. A bit shallow, but that’s almost to be expected for this type of flick, and I loved it for what it was.
I did think it started off as too “Miss Congeniality” and “Miss Congeniality 2” in the beginning, as though Sandra were trying to relive her glory days in comedy, but at least they took it in a different direction.