I saw this movie about a week ago when I was home sick. It's one of the few from the time period that I had actually seen before, probably as a rerun on cable when I was a kid. This is probably one of the first movies to start the 90's trend of favoring witty one-liners over believable effects. Stallone and Russell both toss off these bons mots with complete aplomb, regardless whether pushing someone into a set of electrical transformers or debating the merits of dating a partner's sister. Forget the LAPD! Someone needs to get these two to Laugh-In!
Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are two super-cops from opposite ends of Los Angeles. They spend their days catching coke runners and trying to one-up each other in the papers, blissfully unaware that both their major drug kingpins actually work for even bigger kingpin Jack Palance. It's 1989 so one can only assume that Jack is trying to consolidate his power base before he moves to Gotham City where he will help create The Joker 1.0 out of Jack Nicholson. Obviously, these two cops are interfering with this dream so instead of having them shot in the face, Palance orchestrates a frame job and sends the Buddy Cop Odd Couple to jail.
Hijinks ensue, including a weird psuedo-strip dance number by a young, sparkly-Maidenform-clad Teri Hatcher.
Frankly, the plot is more nonsensical than some drugstore comics I have seen but the quips are still pretty funny which elevates this piece of dreckitude from the rest of the heap. Plus it's nice to see young Kurt Russell in a white henley and pre-mid-life-crisis-HGH-abuse Stallone in Armani. Mmm, late-80's man-meat.
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