Cop Out
Now everyone loves a buddy cop movie right? Two opposite ends of the scale cops brought together, usually to their disgust, only to discover that they, eventually, work well together.
Well Bruce Willis is back in a cop car this week along with his sidekick Tracy Morgan for Kevin Smith's Cop Out.
The movie follows a veteran NYPD cop whose rare baseball card is stolen. Since it's his only hope to pay for his daughter's upcoming wedding, he recruits his partner to track down the thief, a memorabilia-obsessed gangster.
So we took a look at some of the best buddy cop movies and partnerships that have graced the big screen over the years.
Lethal Weapon
Richard Donner's Lethal Weapon, which was released back in 1987 would you believe, is the ultimate buddy cop movie, and I have to admit my personal favourite.
But it's the partnership of soon to be retired cop Roger Murtaugh, Danny Glover, and the nothing to lose Martin Riggs, the rather lovely Mel Gibson, that is the real core of this movie.
While Murtaugh is horrified with the way in which Riggs goes about policing the pair soon find themselves trying to save Murtagh's daughter, and working very well together in the process.
The trust that develops between the pair makes Murtaugh re-think his future delaying his retirement. Three other movies were made and Riggs and Murtaugh remain the best cop partnership.
Rush Hour
The last really good buddy cop movie to hit the big screen came in 1998 when Chris Tucker teamed up with Jackie Chan for Rush Hour.
Cultures clash and tempers flares as the two cops named Detective Inspector Lee a Hong Kong Detective and Detective James Carter FBI, a big-mouthed work-alone Los Angeles cop who are from different worlds discovers one thing in common: they can't stand each other.
With time running out, they must join forces to catch the criminals and save the eleven-year-old Chinese girl.
But as they begin to learn more about each other they begin to work together and great, and very funny partnership begins to emerge.
directed by Brett Ratner the movie was a big box office success and two more movies have gone on to be made.
Bad Boys
Will Smith and Martin Lawrence joined forces in 1995 for Michael Bay directed movie Bad Boys, a movie which really helped launch Smith's big screen career.
Marcus Burnett is a hen-pecked family man. Mike Lowry is a foot-loose and fancy free ladies' man. Both are Miami policemen, and both have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their station's nose.
To complicate matters, in order to get the assistance of the sole witness to a murder, they have to pretend to be each other.
Bad Boys is packed with humour, Smith and Lawrence are superb together as their chemistry really pushes the movie along, it's fast paced with plenty of action.
Despite being criticised as just 'another buddy cop movie' when it was released it was a hit at the box office and the boys reprised their roles back in 2003.
48 Hours
48 Hrs was Murphy's big screen debut that paired him with actor Nick Nolte that is often regarded as one of the best and first buddy movies.
Jack Cates (Nick Nolte) is a tough, super-jaded cop who springs a hard luck robber, Reggie Hammond (Eddie Murphy), from jail for two days to help nab his former partners.
The two men form a kind of friendship (based on mutual hatred) as they chase a trio of remorseless villains through the streets of San Francisco and Cates finds that Hammond's streetwise method of finding the criminals is possibly even more effective than his own by-the-book police procedures.
Hot Fuzz
And. lets face it anything that the Americans can do we Brits can do just as well as Hot Fuzz proved when it hit screens back in 2007.
Directed by Edgar Wright the movie brings together Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as two very different police officers.
Top London cop, PC Nicholas Angel (Pegg) is good. Too good. And to stop the rest of his team looking bad, he is reassigned to the quiet town of Sandford. He is paired with Danny Butterman (Frost), who countlessly questions him on the action lifestyle.
Everything seems quiet for Angel, until two actors are found decapitated. It is address to as an accident, but Angel isn't going to accept that, especially when more and more people turn up dead.
Angel and Danny clash with everyone, whilst trying to uncover the truth behind the mystery of the apparent "accidents".
When it was released the movie was a huge critical hit, doing well on both sides of the proverbial pond.
And when it comes to buddy cop movies who can forget Turner & Hooch? Who would have believed that Tom Hanks would be upstaged by a dog!
Cop Out is released 16h April
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw