SnoopyStyle MacArthur Stern (Gene Hackman) is a grizzled veteran Washington D.C. police detective. His new partner Ellis Fielding (Dan Aykroyd) is brilliant and has multiple personalities. The duo investigates a West German politician, a series of murders, and yes... Nazis.With Bob Clark, Dan Aykroyd, Gene Hackman and Dom DeLuise, I had some hope for this lesser known comedy to be good. The basic structure is a standard buddy cop comedy. Gene Hackman does a good job, but Dan Aykroyd can't do crazy here. Certainly he can't do it to get a laugh. Mostly he is ridiculous, doing a bad interpretation of the Road Runner. Both men are professional, and there is some chemistry. It's just not enough to give this a recommendation.

mosinafd GOOD movie!!! I dunno what the other people are griping about, maybe they are easily offended.If you like the 48 Hours Movies, you will like this one.Is it crude? Yes. Is it stupid? yes. Is it REALLY stupid? REALLY yes. Fun to watch? AMAZINGLY so.Although I agree Dom Deluise "Can" butcher movies sometimes, this one he was good in..the obnoxious, fat Triple XXX movie producer. Dan Akroyd as lunatic #1 makes a good performance....Not a full laugh all the time movie, but the one-liners and stupid acts make it funnyAlthough it jumps A lot, and is somewhat..eh..loose-ended at times. it is a joy to watch.They were able to cram SO many movie cliché's and references it was fun to watch because of that!!!(It's amazing all the people in it that you know from other shows. Stargate SG1, Coach, etc.) Cop-buddies, S&M, Porno and Nazi smut and sympathizer, hunted down by Israeli Mossad....Let me put it this way: If you like occasional stupidity mixed with comedy and crudeness...this is the movie :D Plus you can find it half ways cheap.My opinion=9 stars....IF...you don't watch it that often :D Only 2-3 times a year.

lefrang This is comedy! Sometimes people are offended by stuff like this, but really! How could anybody be offended by silliness like this? Some reviewers found Akroyds "personalities" offensive. I found them amusing as they, of course, should not be taken seriously. It's slapstick, not Ingmar Bergman! The movie was well paced, and reasonably suspenseful as such a movie that tries to follow in the footsteps of movies like "48 hours" should be.There's one thing I dislike about this movie, however, and that's Dom DeLouise. He tries his best to ruin this movie, as he tries to ruin every other movie I have ever seen him in. That man simply cannot act! It makes you wonder why he's in so many movies. Does anybody know?Based on the other reviews I almost didn't watch this, but once again it shows that what's comedy for someone is not necessarily comedy for everyone.I enjoyed it a lot this late evening, and will probably watch it again, and give it a solid 8.Possibly because I was positively surprised after reading the other reviews...

policy134 How could Gene Hackman be part of this project and still remain dignified throughout the entire movie? Dan Aykroyd has at least done much worse (remember Doctor Detroit) but we kind of expect Hackman to be above this kind of sleazy action/comedy. I guess he thought that he could do Eddie Murphy one better who was at that time the king of action comedy.(Warning: Spoilers) The plot involving the Germans trying to make a Fourth Reich is very tired indeed and they are such an easy target. Check out what happens when Robert Prosky does his "best" Hitler imitation at the end of the movie and look at the screen behind him. Then remember his first scene he's in and it's exactly like you predicted but hoped it wouldn't turn out. I can remember seeing Prosky on Hill Street Blues where he was absolutely great and then seeing him here and saying: "What a tool!"And let's not forget the human blimp Dom DeLuise. Maybe he was funny in the early part of his career but to see him wheeze his way through a part that is miscasting to the max makes you feel nauseous. Ronny Cox of Beverly Hills Cop fame tries a southern accent which makes him sound like a very bad imitation of Billy Bob Thornton.The thing that is funny about this below average film is how many famous people who make perfect fools of themselves and Dan Aykroyd should feel kind of embarrassed to make schizophrenia look annoying instead of a disease. Like Roger Ebert has mentioned: "Any material can be funny if executed the right way." but this is definitely wrong.