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“Good Enough to Reheat”

“Hotshots” looks at a movie!

The Heat is another comedy about buddy cops, but the difference in this case is that the two buddy cops are both women.

In fact, I have read that this is the only film this summer in which the two stars are women, and yet it is definitely not a chick flick.

Sandra Bullock stars as Sarah Ashburn, an FBI agent who is slim, prim, and grim, so much so, in fact, that none of her fellow agents like to work with her.

Melissa McCarthy stars as Shannon Mullins, a Boston police detective who is rude, crude, and lewd, and whose unorthodox methods make her very successful.

After Shannon captures one criminal, she tells him, “It’s not about luck, Pal. It’s not about luck.”

Now, Sarah’s boss is going to be moving up and out, and Sarah wants to be promoted and to take over his job.  So, she is transferred temporarily to Boston to find and capture a drug lord, and if she is successful, her boss tells her that they will talk about the promotion.

Well, Sarah is forced to partner with Shannon on the case, even though neither of them wants to, but again Sarah’s boss tell her that she has to show that she can work with Shannon before they will talk about her promotion.

Shannon tells Sarah that Shannon is intuitive and says what she feels, especially when they go undercover into a nightclub and they change Sarah’s appearance to make her more attractive in order to get close to a criminal that they are after.

Shannon also isn’t afraid to use Russian Roulette in order to get a suspect to talk during an interrogation.

Naturally, there will be times for Sarah and Shannon to go out socializing together, and naturally they will all be funny.

Shannon also has occasion to take Sarah home to meet Shannon’s family, which is interesting because the family doesn’t like Shannon for what she did to her brother, but ultimately funny in the discussion between “narc” and “na’c.”

You can imagine that Sarah and Shannon are successful in catching the drug lord, and you can also imagine that a sequel to this very funny film might already be in the works.

The Heat is good enough to see again, especially if the second time is Part II.

I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”