samuel l. jackson and eugene levy . sound like a great team . can not go wrong . not . despite the enormous talent of both actor and they can not do a thing to save this dull and unoriginal buddy cop flick . many of the gag fall flat and simply go nowhere . for example and in one part levy be hungry and want to get something to eat . jackson suggest they get a burger and but levy doesn not want to and because red meat doesn not agree with his stomach . the pay off to the gag . he pass gas in the car . god and it must have take hour to come up with that punchline . the character be totally clichéd and one dimensional . levy job be to ramble on about banality and while jackson job be to roll his eye at him . the film do nothing to distinguish itself amongst the buddy cop genre . come on and we go from 48 hour to this . unfortunately and this be levy first star role since he become a household name with his role in the american pie film . hopefully and he will stumble upon much good role than this in the future . his deadpan comic style be hilarious and a we have see in the ap trilogy and but in the man he force to be an obnoxious fool . levy talent be more in react to awkward situation than create awkward situation . samuel l. jackson look completely embarrass to be associate with the film . he probably take on this role so he can fulfill his contract of 50 movie a year . jackson be undoubtedly one of our most talented actor and but at the same time not the most choosy with his role . plus and in the movie he force to play the usual angry black guy character he have play in every other movie . so it really be like watch deniro play a gangster . and to top it all off and jackson and levy seem to share no chemistry . the man be yet another lame pg 13 comedy . you remember the day when producer couldn not give two sts about earn the pg 13 rating . you do not even have to go that far back . look at my cousin vinny . now and in place of that and we have water down comedy like the legally blonde flick . an r rating probably wouldn not have make the man a much good comedy and but the pg 13 comedy seem to be a epidemic nowadays . i think if producer would have the gut to be more edgy and go against the studio wish to submit a film with a pg 13 and we would probably have a lot more funny comedy .