Directed By: Paul Feig (Bridesmaids)
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy
Rating: R for pervasive language, strong crude content and some violence
Run Time: 1 hour, 57 minutes
Synopsis: Special Agent Sarah Ashburn (Bullock) has high aspirations in the FBI and wants to impress her boss, so she reluctantly takes a drug ring case in Boston that forces her to team up with a brash police detective named Shannon Mullins (McCarthy). With styles and personalities that clash, they struggle to find a way to work with each other in bringing down the drug kingpin...and maybe even become friends in the process.
REVIEW
Andrew:
Hello readers! Today sees the release of one of the bigger name comedies of the
year, The Heat, starring Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side) and
Melissa McCarthy (Identity Thief) as an FBI agent and a Boston police detective
forced to work together to bring down a drug ring. It’s a R-rated comedy
brought to us by Paul Feig, director of Bridesmaids, the film that McCarthy
was a supporting role in and was her breakout role.
Sarah and I were fortunate enough to see a screening of The
Heat weeks ago, and
this was a movie that was originally slated to come out last
April but it was pushed back to its current release date at the end of June by
20th Century Fox. I originally wasn’t quite sure why they pushed it
back, but now after seeing it, I think we can assume it’s because they knew
what kind of film they had and wanted to get big summer dollars
Sarah: I
would agree with you on that one. There would really be no other reason I could
see other than to get it into the summer blockbuster series.
Going into this film…Sandra Bullock, Melissa McCarthy, done
by the same guy who did Bridesmaids…what did you feel Feig
followed up his 2011 hit with this new buddy-cop flick?
