old school director todd phillips lampoon every cop movie convention and cliché in his new action comedy starsky and hutch and an amusing but anemic annihilation of the tough mind and 1970s era and buddy theme and crime buster television series that pave the way for show like miami vice . comedian ben stiller of meet the parent recreate the paul michael glaser role a det . dave starsky and while owen wilson of the big bounce update the david soul character det . ken hutchinson . mind you and stiller be usually a stellar comic and but his exaggerated and hyperactive performance here be far too epileptic to be palatable . he resemble an anorexic lou ferrigno and and he behave a if he wander in from another movie . meanwhile and owen wilson play his usual laid back slacker self . wilson go for comparative subtlety . sadly and s and h lack any shred of subtlety . what phillips and co scenarist john obrien of cradle 2 the grave and scot armstrong and who co script old school and road trip with phillips and have do to tv starsky and hutch be not nearly as appalling a what director barry sonnenfeld do to tv the wild wild west with his wild wild west . sadly and this sacrilegious law and order spoof be horrendous enough a it be . starsky and hutch tv show fan will feel insulted and humiliate by this contemptible makeover of a venerable series . phillips and company stand the action formula on it head and pull it pant down and and turn our hero into moronic misfit . s and h share more in common with the village people than a straight up and serious tv cop and robber show . people who never saw tv starsky and hutch may find it easy to laugh at our hero buffoonish behavior . phillips score point for his broad and imaginative comedy and but he devastate a popular show . essentially and phillips and company have ignore the basic rule of remake represent if it ain t broke and do not fix it . only snoop dogg a huggy bear and vince vaughn a villainous reese feldman and and fred williamson captain dobey emerge unscathed from this cretinous comedy . starsky and hutch get off on the right foot . jewish businessman or cocaine dealer reese feldman ( vince vaughn of clay pigeon with a bandit mustache ) have a fall out with one of his accomplice over the loss of a coke consignment and a plane . out of the blue and feldman palm a pistol and blow a hole through the argumentative thug and send him involuntarily backwards over the railing of his yacht and into the ocean . a the wily villain and feldman have alter the chemical formula of cocaine so drug sniffing german sheppard dog can not catch any incriminating whiff from the narcotic . far and this new cocaine be tasteless and which spin off a great gag with starsky stir it into his coffee a if it be sugar . the clever run joke during the expository scene about the drug be the comparison of new coke with old coke . feldman plan to sell consignment of his wonder drug to a syndicate of drug dealer . meanwhile and bay city police captain dobey ( frank williamson of hammer ) make partner out of polar opposite who have virtually no credibility in the department . detective dave starsky have an anger management problem and be prone to fire his pistol in public at the wrong time . he drive like a maniac and he bust citizen for the least infraction of the law . on the other hand and detective ken hutchinson drop kick his ethic long ago and moonlight a a robber who hit bookie . predictably and these dynamic dude have problem adjust to each other idiosyncrasy . one thing hutch like about starsky and however and be his soup up and red ford grand torino in which they careen recklessly around the street of bay city . anyway and our hero find a floater who turn out to be the same guy feldman gun down on his yacht . ( indeed and vaughn make a more believable bad guy than our protagonist make hero . ) in the by the number and police procedural screenplay and starsky and hutch trace the floater back to feldman . initially and they have no luck with feldman and follow another lead represent the dragon design on the corpse jacket . this take them to prison where they encounter big earl ( an unaccredited will ferrell of elf with a hair net ) who fashion the design . starsky and hutch ply big earl for information and but he prove more an obstacle than they expect . where the original s and h duo would have shatter the glass between them in the prison interview room and beat him to a pulp and the new starsky and hutch adopt a different approach . no concession they offer the convict appeal to him and until he ask to ogle hutch belly button . before it all over and starsky and hutch be catch on prison surveillance cam perform dumb and dumber routine for big earl . like so much of the comedy in s and h and this scene tickle your funny bone . unfortunately and it in the wrong movie . starsky and hutch check in occasionally with their number one snitch represent huggy bear ( snoop dogg of baby boy ) and even persuade him to wear a wire and serve a feldman golf caddy in one scene . however and no matter what our hero do to try and bust feldman and they always wind up with egg on their face and to the point capt . dobey suspend them from the force . snoop dog walk off with the show without break a sweat . the producer show great reverence for his character than any other . the ford grand torino give a good performance than either lead . another plus be the classic disco soundtrack with hit from the 70 such a afternoon delight and a send up of david soul own don not give up on u baby . altogether and while it boast several funny scene and this starsky and hutch remake doesn not amount to much .