# The Strasky & Hutch movie - I'm confused **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 15, 2004, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strasky-hutch-movie-im-confused/229381 "2004-02-15T19:49:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2004, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strasky-hutch-movie-im-confused/229381/1 "2004-02-15T19:49:07Z")
When I heard they were going to make the, uh, “classic” 70’s cop show into an action-comedy, I figured it _might_ not suck. Now the trailers are playing on TV and I see that Ben Stiller is the star. Now my confusion, if you want to make a comedy, why would you hire Ben Stiller? Didn’t the makers of the movie want _funny_ actors in their **comedy**? Snoop Dogg as Huggy Bear is a natural, btw. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2004, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strasky-hutch-movie-im-confused/229381/2 "2004-02-15T19:50:39Z")
Obviously, that should be Starsky. ---
**Author:** ![hazel-rah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/73ab20/32.png) [@hazel-rah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hazel-rah)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2004, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strasky-hutch-movie-im-confused/229381/3 "2004-02-15T20:40:03Z")
Ben Stiller _is_ funny. Meet the Parents, The Royal Tenenbaums, Zoolander? Hell, Owen Wilson was in all those films as well, and he was funny too. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2004, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strasky-hutch-movie-im-confused/229381/4 "2004-02-15T20:41:55Z")
I’ve seen funny and it doesn’t look anything like Ben Stiller. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2004, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strasky-hutch-movie-im-confused/229381/5 "2004-02-15T20:43:57Z")
Ben Stiller is one of the producers. ---
**Author:** ![Subjective\_Enema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/779978/32.png) [@Subjective\_Enema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subjective_Enema)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2004, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strasky-hutch-movie-im-confused/229381/6 "2004-02-15T20:44:18Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > I’ve seen funny and it doesn’t look anything like Ben Stiller. Then don’t go see Starsky & Hutch… What’s the problem here? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2004, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strasky-hutch-movie-im-confused/229381/7 "2004-02-15T20:51:17Z")
> [@Subjective Enema](#): > > Then don’t go see Starsky & Hutch… What’s the problem here? I won’t. There isn’t one. Just voicing an opinion. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2004, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strasky-hutch-movie-im-confused/229381/8 "2004-02-15T22:08:20Z")
Even if you don’t like Ben, go for Will Ferrell as the prison inmate and Vince Vaughn as a moustacheoed villain. ---
**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strasky-hutch-movie-im-confused/229381/9 "2004-02-16T00:05:33Z")
Ben Stiller is frickin’ hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strasky-hutch-movie-im-confused/229381/10 "2004-02-16T02:52:49Z")
Ben Stiller can be seriously funny, even though he plays very similar characters most of the time, that of a miserable victimised idiot. However, Will Ferrell is overrated to the hilt. ---
**Author:** ![Club\_33](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@Club\_33](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Club_33)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strasky-hutch-movie-im-confused/229381/11 "2004-02-16T06:42:44Z")
I love Ben Stiller, especially in “Something about Mary”. To each his own I guess… ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strasky-hutch-movie-im-confused/229381/12 "2004-02-16T07:23:33Z")
> [@hazel-rah](#): > > Ben Stiller _is_ funny. Meet the Parents, The Royal Tenenbaums, Zoolander? Don’t forget Mystery Men and the late, lamented, Ben Stiller Show. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strasky-hutch-movie-im-confused/229381/13 "2004-02-16T07:30:05Z")
And Owen Wilson’s nose! ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strasky-hutch-movie-im-confused/229381/14 "2004-02-16T09:11:48Z")
> [@racinchikki](#): > > And Owen Wilson’s nose! I didn’t know Ben Stiller was in that! ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strasky-hutch-movie-im-confused/229381/15 "2004-02-16T21:02:12Z")
Yep, Owen picked Ben for that roll himself. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strasky-hutch-movie-im-confused/229381/16 "2004-02-16T21:34:15Z")
I think the OP must be in a very small minority. I find Ben Stiller very funny. Certainly much funnier than his parents ever were. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strasky-hutch-movie-im-confused/229381/17 "2004-02-16T22:43:41Z")
> [@Fiver](#): > > I think the OP must be in a very small minority. I find Ben Stiller very funny. > > Certainly much funnier than his parents ever were. I’ve asked about dozen people I know their opinion about Stiller and all agree he great in extremely small doses. Not feature length, maybe the odd cameo here and there. I will confess that the only thing I ever saw him do that was even remotely entertaining was his impersonation of Yakov Smirnoff after the fall of the Soviet Union. Other than that, nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strasky-hutch-movie-im-confused/229381/18 "2004-02-16T23:19:02Z")
In Soviet Union, _Yakov Smirnoff_ impersonates _you_! ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strasky-hutch-movie-im-confused/229381/19 "2004-02-16T23:19:16Z")
> [@Fiver](#): > > I think the OP must be in a very small minority. I find Ben Stiller very funny. > > Certainly much funnier than his parents ever were. Dude, you do realize that only a very small minority here would be old enough to remember seeing a Jerry Stiller - Anne Meara comedy routine? ## Peace. Oh my God, I’m old! ---
**Author:** ![Pashnish\_Ewing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8797f3/32.png) [@Pashnish\_Ewing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pashnish_Ewing)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2004, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-strasky-hutch-movie-im-confused/229381/20 "2004-02-16T23:25:39Z")
> [@Fiver](#): > > I think the OP must be in a very small minority. I find Ben Stiller very funny. > > Certainly much funnier than his parents ever were. SERENITY NOW!