Starsky & Hutch
Starsky & Hutch
TV-14 | 10 September 1975 (USA)
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  • Reviews
    Dirtylogy

    It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

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    Abbigail Bush

    what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

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    Nayan Gough

    A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

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    Philippa

    All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

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    bkoganbing

    With that Gran Torino that it seemed always that David Soul was in the driver's seat and Paul Michael Glaser rode shotgun, Starsky and Hutch looked hip, dressed hip and even had a black friend who was also their chief snitch.Starsky And Hutch set a new standard for detectives. Even through the Sixties, police plainclothes detectives were always in suits with gray fedoras. David Starsky and Ken Hutchinson were looking groovy in those bell bottoms. They both had some snappy dialog showing they were quite wise to the scene.The two other regulars on the show were both black, but lived in different worlds. Glaser and Soul worked for Captain Dobey played by Bernie Hamilton and I really liked his character. Even being black this man worked his way up the police ladder and was respected by the guys even if they aggravated him a lot. It was kind of like the way Marshal McCloud did things to annoy Chief Clifford, but always got the job done. Captain Dobey was a thoroughgoing professional.Antonio Fargas was a pimp and had his own place always with a few women from his stable around. No doubt this guy had a license to operate within reason. But I remember one time when Huggy Bear called Starsky And Hutch 'honorary soul brothers'. That was unbelievably stupid and condescending.But the show did have style aplenty.

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    mrjazzy2002

    Watching archived episodes of Starsky and Hutch on hulutv has been a real treat lately, especially since I was a regular viewer when the original series started in 1975.I noticed that producer/director/writer Michael Mann, ala Miami Vice, wrote the first 4 episodes on Season 1.The episodes had good plots, a variety of fine character actors that played some of the bad guys, foxy girls, funky music background, an original opening theme written by Lalo Schifrin and many other elements that contributed it the show's success.Fans of the show will always remember Starsky's leather jacket that must have been worn by an ace WW11 fighter pilot and passed down from generation until he probably found it cheap at the local thrift store and Hutch's plaid shirts, khaki pants, the shoulder holsters that held those 6 shooter cannon revolvers, the 2 cars and of course their sometimes pimp but harmless snitch Huggy Bear.I miss shows in today's TV cable world that's sporting almost 500 channels like the old days of dramatic, sometimes comedic cop shows like S&H. I really had no desire to see the recent movie.Watching episodes through the online link is really bringing back some memories of decades past.

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    elshikh4

    I wanted to begin my review by saying "welcome to the 1970s" but I believe (Starsky and Hutch) isn't the good introduction for that era. It's the TV, the entertaining TV, but it's still a TV.. in a bad scene I suppose. The worst about this show, which isn't a bad show by the way, is its writing; from the start there wasn't a main irony between this 2 leads, that's a high treason for the genre as a Buddy-show. For little instance, at the same year of its launch (1975) there were another Buddy-shows such as (Switch) or the cartoon (The Oddball Couple), actually both of them got basically an effective irony unlike those 2 – just seemingly different – cops. I bet a lot of kids went to play (Starsky and Hutch) at the time, yet not with many things to mimic I believe !It was playful plain comics, namely fun time, but too flat, tame, with no twists. Sometimes it managed to present attractively suspenseful and vigorous episodes, but this kind of solid scripts that utilized the elements and exceeded their own weakness didn't recur much. The theme music wasn't engaging or catchy, and the first opening credits looked as one of the dullest indeed (freezing David Soul's image while his mouth is wide open !, clips for Soul wiping a glass ?, boring pointless shots for the car, etc) you'll wait some years later till the opening credits became a star with many memorable works. Evidently its production wasn't that big. The action was suitable like one can of your favorite soda (small can by the way !), and the red "gran torino" wasn't given the chance to be that heroic the way next cars will be (such as The Dukes of Hazzard's General Lee 4 years later) being all the time nothing but a part of the nice picture.On the other hand, the top of the essential attractive points was the main plot of 2 title's roles awfully handsome unmarried young police (officers, cops, detectives, YOU NAME IT !) that belong to the streets more than the offices, being in action more than mysteries, chasing the bad guys all the time, and beating them every time. Not to mention a very childishly nerves but good superior, a very loyal 'police snitch', and the company of one of the coolest cars in the decade. This simple frame will be copied hundreds of times after, whether in TV or cinema (remember shows like CHiPs, Miami Vice, or Cagney & Lacey).Another factor : the awfully handsome unmarried young 2 heroes (Paul Michael Glaser) and (David Soul). Both of them surely captured too many hearts back then. There is a certain chemistry between them, but it's clear that (Glaser) was the best always, not because he can deliver fine and make every effort, but also because (Soul) wasn't making any efforts at all, relaying mainly on the way he, or his hair, would look!With the exception of short-lived TV shows like (Shaft), (Get Christie Love!) which were just humoring the gigantic success of the Blaxploitation movies at the 70s' start, it was such a scarce matter to watch black actors in such respectable roles in a TV drama back then. So I think, as a third factor, it was really something to watch (Bernie Hamilton) starring as the adorable Captain (Dobey), and (Antonio Fargas) as the good-humored good-hearted street hustler (Huggy Bear) sharing the opening credits with the title's characters like equal stars as well. They were both the best sidekick Starsky and Hutch would ever have, and some of the best characters – that were given to black people – to be remembered from that era. It took years to see black actor as a title's role in action shows like this, the closest that I can remember is (Avery Brooks) in (A Man Called Hawk – 1989). So it's about having a nice time, but even if, it wasn't that top-notch memorably great nice time. Unfortunately nothing but the stars' glamour was that clever. However, despite me and my opinions, it is watchable, and with the nostalgic feel (Starsky' wool sweater.. I used to wear that once!), increased by the end of this kind of entertainment today, it's rather highly watchable and so needed as one feel good show where the bad guys aren't meanly bad, the girls are all gals, the 2 leads must go in a street fist fight and win, and at its extreme there was no blood or explosions, only innocently blank shoots confrontations that always end well, and there must be a laugh, any possible or impossible laugh, at the finale.. Actually it was beyond redemption for that to be cut even for once, they didn't stand but to leave you with a smile.. so cute.

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    dataconflossmoor

    David Soul and Paul Michael Glaser were fabulous as the perennial bachelors who took on an unorthodox approach to solving San Francisco's most heinous crimes!! Drugs were a big part of this show, it depicted the drawbacks to using drugs and illustrated the delirium that they put many destitute walks of life into! Paul Michael Glaser was sensational as the totally guy's guy detective!! His personality went beyond likable, his role as Starsky was a big component in making this series extremely entertaining!! David Soul was excellent as well, as the all American detective Hutch, he definitely sparked an identifiability with the television viewer!! The rest of the cast was realistically portrayed in keeping with the time (the 1970's) that this show aired!! The '2005 movie was more of a satire of the original series, and was amusing more than anything else!! As a kid, I liked "Starsky and Hutch" a lot and I am glad that it was a big part of my childhood television viewing!! I give it a thumbs up!!

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