STARSKY AND HUTCH at HOLLYWOOD TEEN MOVIES

TITLE : Starsky And Hutch
YEAR OF RELEASE : 2004
CLASSIFICATION : M
DIRECTOR : Todd Phillips
STARRING : Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Juliette Lewis, Snoop Dogg, Jason Bateman, Fred Williamson, Carmen Electra, Amy Smart, Brande Roderick, Chris Penn, Molly Sims

TAGLINES : Good Cops. Bad Hair.
* They're the man.
* A new comedy from the director of "Old School" and "Road Trip"
* The original partners in crime.
* Tough on crime. Easy on the eye.
* Always on the lookout for a big bust.
* Crimebustin's a joint effort.
* Hitting the streets March 12th

Reborn in the bodies of Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson, charismatic crime fighters, Dave Starsky and Ken “Hutch” Hutchinson - whose hit television show starring Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul initially ran from 1975-79 - have, inevitably, come to the big screen. Starsky & Hutch is a prequel to the series, telling the story of how their unlikely partnership came about.

Dedicated detective, Starsky (Stiller) is a cop trying to live up to the illustrious reputation of a parent - in this case, his mother who was considered one of the best cops on the streets of Bay City, California. He tries so hard, in fact, that he has gone through a series of partners who can’t keep up with his kind of exhausting, fanatical police work.

Hutch (Wilson), on the other hand, although a good cop, is too laid back for his own good and doesn’t always remember which side of the law he’s on. Exasperated Police Captain, Harold Dobey (Fred Williamson) thinks Starsky needs some calming down and Hutch needs some focus and by teaming up his two problem detectives he believes he has come up with a perfect solution. It might seem like a doomed mismatch but come on, we know it has to work out otherwise how did they go and make all those TV episodes!

Their first case involves sadistic drug dealer, Reese Feldman (Vince Vaughn) who, with his right had man, Kevin (Jason Bateman) is pushing a strain of cocaine that is undetectable by taste or smell.

Playing the guys’ streetwise informant, Huggy Bear is Snoop Dogg and other cast members include Juliette Lewis as Kitty, Reese’s loyal, naïve mistress and Carmen Electra and Amy Smart as cheerleaders, Staci and Holly who are attracted to the soon-to-be dynamic duo.

When the boys begin to settle into each other’s policing methods, the partnership takes off and Stiller and Wilson make a great team. A funny sequence involves their interview of a jailbird - played by an unbilled Will Ferrell - who has some odd requests before he will talk. Another is a Saturday Night Fever-ish moment that occurs after Starsky has mistaken the odourless cocaine for coffee sweetener.

Fans of the original will enjoy a couple of droll touches when Hutch tries to impress Staci and Holly with a song, and a nudge-nudge, wink-wink, final moment involving Starsky’s treasured red and white Ford Torino.

Starsky & Hutch: The Complete First Season [DVD](1975) DVD
All 23 episodes from season one--including "Savage Sunday," "The Fix," "Kill Huggy Bear," "The Omaha Tiger," and "The Bounty Hunter"--are included in a five-disc set. 20 hrs. total. Standard; Soundtracks: English, Spanish; interviews; featurettes; "making of" documentary; TV spots.
Starsky And Hutch: Pilot Episode [DVD](1975) DVD
Plowing through the mean city streets in their red and white Ford Torino, "the Striped Tomato," maverick detectives Dave Starsky (Paul Michael Glaser) and Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson (David Soul) brought down the bad guys in the hit cop series, which aired on ABC from 1975-1979. Bernie Hamilton was the boys' boss, Capt. Dobey, and Antonio Fargas their jive-talking, streetwise informant, Huggy Bear. This is the original Pilot episode for the first time on DVD.