Film Review: Coffee & Kareem is A WILD Cup of Laughs!
As the world binges through every film or series they kind of wanted to see or were always curious about, new content is to be DEVOURED. Coffee & Kareem arises in a time when people need a fresh laugh, and, like a good cup of coffee, it delivers. Out April 3, the new comedy feels alike another win for Netflix.
Coffee & Kareem reminds me of films The Other Guys and The Hangover, if they had a kid as a lead. Ed Helm is James Coffee; a sweet but NOT astute cop that fumbles through his police duties as much as his relationship ones. In love with Taraji P. Henson’s scene-stealing Vanessa Manning, the latter is strong, funny, and feels like a awakening for Officer Coffee; who is so PG he says “vergina” rather than vagina. Hence, Vanessa’s young son absolutely, verbally DEVOURS him when he get stuck Officer Coffee during a drug-bust gone terribly wrong.
Coffee & Kareem starring Ed Helms & Taraji P Henson | Official Trailer | Netflix
Terrence Little Gardenhigh as Kareem is SO FUNNY! He is fiercely smart and absolutely potty mouth. He never backs down, which matches Helms energy as a determined, morally tenacious cop. Yet, again, the difference lies in intelligence. Kareem is WITTY, which will have audience’s laughing in awe of a kid, who is not even high-school, but smarter than most powerful adults. The banter between Kareem and Coffee is good, but it is when they enter action sequences, of which the film has plenty, that their comedic chemistry is impeccable. These are two people that do not like each other, but, definitely, love the idea of still being alive and not get killed by a sea of crazy cops and criminals. Hence, they have to work together.
Directed by Michael Dowse and written by Shane Mack, Coffee & Kareem is 100% worth a press play, especially when people are expanding their tastes and needs of what to watch. The film is like speeding car driving through cop-movie tropes and new, step-dad prats, but you eat it up because it is led by two actors that are fully immersed in the heart of their crazy characters. Add on a cast that includes the hilarious derangement of comedians like, David Alan Grier, RonReaco Lee, Betty Gilpin, and Andrew Bachelor as crooked cops and ditzy hustlers, and it is so hard not find, at least, one big laugh in Coffee & Kareem: out on Netflix on April 3.
