An uptight FBI Special Agent is paired with a foul-mouthed Boston cop to take down a ruthless drug lord.An uptight FBI Special Agent is paired with a foul-mouthed Boston cop to take down a ruthless drug lord.An uptight FBI Special Agent is paired with a foul-mouthed Boston cop to take down a ruthless drug lord.
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- 7 wins & 16 nominations total
Demián Bichir
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- (as Demian Bichir)
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Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy are a great hilarious duo, even when things feel off it's so much fun! Paul Feig created an excellent comedy that is mixed perfectly with some action. I love these goofy movies they are easy to enjoy anytime and I'm glad it has more praised reviews. I love how delightful the bar scenes are The Heat is great all around!
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
Overall - 3.5/5
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.
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.
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
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
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- TriviaAshburn's yearbook is Sandra Bullock's actual 1982 yearbook from Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Virginia. The art department digitally manipulated Bullock's picture to include glasses and braces, neither of which she had in her original high school senior portrait. They also took out all the signatures within the book.
- GoofsDuring the opening chase, Mullins makes a sharp right and the hubcap comes off the left front wheel. When she is pulling up to huge police station, the hubcap is back on.
- Crazy creditsAccording to the end credits, Gina's Boobs are played by Jessica Chaffin's Boobs.
- Alternate versionsThe Blu-ray release contains an extended cut with just over 3 minutes of additional material.
- ConnectionsFeatured in ReelzChannel Specials: Richard Roeper's Red Hot Summer (2013)
- SoundtracksFight the Power (Part 1 & 2)
Written by Chris Jasper (as Christopher Jasper), Ernie Isley, Marvin Isley, Ronald Isley, Rudolph Isley and O'Kelly Isley
Performed by The Isley Brothers
Courtesy of Epic Records
By arrangement with Sony Music Licensing
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- Budget
- $43,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $159,582,188
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $39,115,043
- Jun 30, 2013
- Gross worldwide
- $229,930,771
- Runtime
- 1h 57m(117 min)
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- 2.35 : 1
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