"The Other Guys" is a testament to how funny Will Ferrell, Rob Riggle, and the rest of that crew are. And I say that because, as a film, "The Other Guys" could be the worst movie of the year. Nothing happens. There are a lot of moments of dead air. The film only got a couple of of gags out of the actual story or out of any situation and the rest was mainly improv one liners and completely random gags. It almost felt like the movie might have been better (and, oddly enough, more cohesive) if it was a Monty Python style sketch movie.

It's tough to rank this film because of the odd dichotomy - it was fun but at times it was hard to get through. While a lot of the supporting guys did well, key players like Michael Keaton and Steve Coogan added nothing to the proceedings. The film was funny but most of its actual gags fell flat and had to be saved by improv one liners.

In the end, I'll just rank it in terms of how much I enjoyed myself watching it and throw it in at #9. It'll be interesting to see if the Ferrell/McKay/Henchy crew gets back to tying to write a coherent film. It kind of seems like they gave up on it after Semi-Pro tanked and now they're going for loosely plotted films that are basically a fairly random collection of set pieces for people to improv in. I hope they get back to that or it might just time for them to all move on; it seems like McKay is ready to do so as he's readying a comic book film, "The Boys".