Movies with ridiculously mismatched Cop partners

[chris_sc77]

Ok. So I have a strange fascination with movies that feature strange buddy cop partnerships.
Usually mismatched opposites who work together even though one of the cops usually can't stand the other one. The stranger the better ( or worse if you will). The 80s and 90s produced these in a kind of shocking regularity.

Here are some examples :

K9 (cop/ dog)
Turner and Hooch ( cop/ dog again)
Top Dog (cop/ dog yet again)
Dragnet (by the books cop/ hip cop)
Loose Cannons ( by the books cop/ multiple personality cop)
Stop or my mom will shot (Cop and his mom)
Theodore Rex (cop / talking dinosaur)
The Heat (stuck up cop / don't give an F cop)

So there has gotta be some other great ones.

[xander]

48 Hours (cop/criminal)
Rush Hour (Far East / Far West) See also: any Jackie Chan buddy cop flick and Showdown In Little Tokyo.

I'll leave off the sub-genre of by the books/loose cannon partner match up as that is pretty much standard and would cover dozens.

This thread reminds me of Last Action Hero in the scene where this concept is lampooned with the precinct being shown pairing off cops specifically by how ridiculous they contrast (one guy gets a cartoon animal)

[klauswhereareyou]

Cop and a Half.

[JavaJulien]

Cop in a Half. Burt Reynolds and a little kid.

[evoxturbo]

Die Hard - John McClane / Fat ass, desk cop.

Lethal Weapon - Crazy, suicidal, loner / Sane family man.

[qb2333]

Training Day
48 Hours
Rush Hour

[chris_sc77]

Originally Posted by evoxturbo

Die Hard - John McClane / Fat ass, desk cop.

Yeah Bruce Willis has done a ton of these (hard cop / annoying to him partner)
Die Hard with a Vengeance (maybe the best one of all time)
Die Hard 4.0
Last boy scout
Cop out
16 blocks


Also can't forget Bulletproof with Sandler and Damon Waynes

[bundyblu]

Cop Land...Stallone and Liotta.

Although they weren't official partners, as Stallone was the Sheriff and Liotta was part of NYPD, they pretty much were partners half way through the movie.

Stallone - meager, soft spoken, moves slow
Liotta - coked out, nuts ass

[Beast]

Last Action Hero.

Another of the Cop & Kid pairings. But it also has a cartoon cat cop.

In fact it even references odd/bad cop pairings in the actual film.

[demonknight]

Kuffs. Slater and other guy.
Pretty sure Repo Man had a cop partner who everyone else hated.

[Kevin Holly]

Originally Posted by chris_sc77

Theodore Rex (cop / talking dinosaur)

Honestly, this is the first thing I thought of for weirdest. I don't know if it gets any more bizarre. I mean, if there was a movie with:

• a cop doing underwater work and teaming up with a jellyfish
• cop partnered with a Hooloovoo
• cannibalistic cop who ate a perpetrator, who then was resurrected via voodoo, and then they teamed up
• cannibalistic villain who ate a cop, who then was resurrected via voodoo, and then they teamed up
• cop who teams up with team of sentient volcanoes (traditional and/or fissure) who someone use their lava expulsion capacity to help the cop hunt serial killers

That would be weirder than cop / dinosaur, but they don't exist as far as I know.

Actually, a cop / ghost partnership would actually be pretty sick. That may well exist, does anyone have an example?

Another one that may exist in reality that I'd like to see is cop / pyromancer.

[JamesOrlandlo]

Zed and Sweetchuck from Police Academy.

[blufellas]

Ghost - ghost/psychic.... I known they weren't cops, still had to solve a crime.

[Silo5]

Lethal Weapon.

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by Kevin Holly

Honestly, this is the first thing I thought of for weirdest. I don't know if it gets any more bizarre.

I have some dim memories of seeing the never-theatrically-released "A Gnome Named Gnorm" on VHS, but...I'm still not sure I actually did.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109912/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Actually, a cop / ghost partnership would actually be pretty sick. That may well exist, does anyone have an example?

Well, there's the 60's and 00's versions of the UK "Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)", but that was a private detective and a TV series, so those don't count. The 60's version wasn't bad, though--Think it's on DVD.

[Show spoiler]

"Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)" TV Intro - YouTube

Unless you want to count Denzel Washington and Bob Hoskins in "Heart Condition", but...do you?

[Kevin Holly]

Originally Posted by EricJ

Well, there's the 60's and 00's versions of the UK "Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)", but that was a private detective and a TV series, so those don't count. The 60's version wasn't bad, though--Think it's on DVD.

NICE!! And private detectives I tend to like even more than cops, so this should be right up my alley! Thanks man!

[MrTwoArms]

Naked Gun. A mentally challenged man (Leslie Nielsen) and a murderer (OJ Simpson).

[ly000001]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu7PxhwDGqw

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by chris_sc77

Yeah Bruce Willis has done a ton of these (hard cop / annoying to him partner)
Die Hard with a Vengeance (maybe the best one of all time)
Die Hard 4.0
Last boy scout
Cop out
16 blocks

And don't forget Sunset (James Garner as Wyatt Earp, Bruce Willis as Tom Mix, to solve a silent-Hollywood murder), back when Willis still had hair and hipness.

(And which could have been SO much better if Blake Edwards hadn't been slipping off the deep end by that point...)

[cynatnite]

Alien Nation.

Good movie and decent series about a cop and his alien partner.