Film Review – The Heat

After spending a considerable amount of time floundering with his
directorial career, Paul Feig hit pay dirt with 2011’s “Bridesmaids,” a
rude, crude, profoundly improvised comedy centered on female characters.
It makes sense to find Feig repeating the formula for “The Heat,”
though the effort isn’t a twist on matrimonial madness movies, but buddy
cop cinema, pairing Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock as the titular
force of justice, but only giving them a few pages of story to work
with. The rest of the experience is a riffing hailstorm where everyone
dashes for a punchline, disrupted by scenes of graphic violence to break
up the monotony. It’s an aggressive picture in many ways, but it never
comes together as a cohesive lampoon, meandering around chasing impulses
instead of solidifying itself as a determined action comedy.
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