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The Heat is a good movie with a reasonably well developed plot and a fantastic comedic cast. It's a fun movie that is filled with side splitting hilarious scenes and great improv from its cast all around. The highlight is the stellar chemistry between Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy, they clearly enjoyed working together, which shows very well on screen. However, the story itself was quite flat, it was not one bit compelling or intense, as well as being too straight forward to really pull us in. I also felt the film made too many jokes about Bulllock's character being unattractive as a result of her restricted personality, this got tiresome after a while, but it just continues pretty much until the end of the movie, it was an extremely repetitive gag that was not even accurate for someone as beautiful as Bullock. It certainly has its imperfections, but The Heat is good, harmless fun, I would recommend it to anyone looking for a good comedy, just do not go out of your way to see it.

A straight laced FBI agent is partnered up with a foul mouthed street cop in a hunt for a drug lord.

Best Performance: Sandra Bullock

I'm not sure about these bad reviews, I really found a lot to enjoy here.

Plot In A Paragraph: FBI Agent Sarah Ashburn (Sandra Bullock) is a very skilled investigator in New York City, but is despised by her fellow agents for her arrogant attitude. On a brief assignment in Boston, she meets Shannon Mullins (Melissa McCarthy) a foulmouthed and rebellious police officer with the Boston Police Department. Ashburn's by-the-book philosophy clashes with Mullins' rugged and violent style of police work. Under pressure from her FBI boss Hale, Ashburn reluctantly agrees to team up with Mullins.

Whilst the plot is nothing special, and certain amounts of the humour revolve around police brutality and bad language, Bullock is an effective straight to the foul mouthed McCarthy and I found some serious lough out loud moments.

Enjoyable and I'll definitely watch it again.

This movie is crude, unpredictable, shocking, and just about the funniest female buddy movie I've ever seen. It is a total laugh riot, each shock outdoes the last one. A "Hangover" movie for women - and let's hope they make two more of them! Go see it, knowing that the language is foul, the humor is gross, the violence is unexpected, and you will be surprised over and over again anyway. Rarely does a movie audience laugh so loud that you can't hear the dialog. If you are from Boston, or lived there for any appreciable amount of time, it will be even funnier. ("What am I speak-in', f-in' Japanese he-ah?")Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy are a perfect (mis)-match. A hysterical movie.

Superb duo for the "Buddy movie + Detective / Partner" formula Bullock and Mccarthy pulls off one of the best comedies in years to come.

Overall - 3.5/5

I cannot understand all the very negative reviews for this movie. They almost convinced me not to watch it. Fortunately, the decent reviews convinced me to take an chance, and I am glad I did. This movie is as good a comedy as any of the decent comedies to come out in the last two years, of which there were not many. The acting was top class. The script was very funny and the direction was just right. The leads complimented each other perfectly. The pace was very good and kept you interested. Even the slower part which was only a very small portion of the overall movie, but was one of the things which made it more human and easier to relate to. Well worth a look.