"I'm too old for this shit!": The Buddy Cop Genre

You know the drill, one’s a loudmouth rookie, one’s a no-nonsense veteran two weeks from retirement. Hilarity ensues. Sometimes.

The buddy cop movie is all about culture clash, be it young paired with old, white paired with black, man paired with woman, or in the most dire and ill-advised of premises, man paired with dog. They don’t have to be cops, a lot of the time you have a cop with a con like in 48 Hrs. or secret agents like From Paris With Love, but the formula of the genre stays the same. ...