Hot Pursuit tells the story of Cooper(Reese Witherspoon),who is a cop with serious lack of experience in the field. She has a boring desk job at her precinct. She gets a major opportunity when she is asked to provide witness protection services to Daniella Riva(Sofia Vergara). After a major shootout, Cooper & Daniella are on the run from various crooks who want to kill them. If they have to survive this ordeal, Cooper & Daniella have to put their differences aside & work together.

Hot Pursuit is a funny film! It's refreshing to see a buddy comedy with actresses. This movie is comparable to the Jump Street movies starring Jonah Hill & Channing Tatum. Though this film makes you cackle from time to time, it's not consistently funny like the Jump Street films. Reese Witherspoon & Sofia Vergara make a spectacular comedic duo. Their banter is equally good as any other famous male comedic pair. Witherspoon's Cooper & Vergara's Daniella Riva are as different as chalk & cheese & this is the heart of the movie's hilarity. Many of the gags in the film are repeated but, Witherspoon & Vergara make us laugh each time. Can't wait to see these two in more movies together. Matthew Del Negro & Michael Mosley are good as Detective Hauser & Detective Dixon respectively. Robert Kazinsky is great as Randy. Joaquin Cosio & John Carroll Lynch are superb as Vincente Cortez & Captain Emmett respectively. Jim Gaffigan is awesome in his short role as Red. The supporting characters are effective too. Hot Pursuit is not a must watch. However, it doesn't deserve all the negativity that's coming its way & is worth a watch.

And I'm only talking about the trailer! I couldn't even finish the trailer. Once sofia started wailing I was out. Looks beyond dreadful.

Teaming up Witherspoon and Vergara might have seemed like a gimmick at first, but it really made a lot of sense since they're both skilled comediennes and can elicit a good laugh because of their abilities. Vergara knows how to use her physical attributes to manipulate those who must be distracted in order to have her character survive, and she can certainly command the audience with her winning personality. Witherspoon has been playing "serious" for a while, but she was amazing in her "Blonde" movies and her range goes from the absurd to black comedy ("Election" comes to mind).

It's a formula movie that has a cop and her charge avoiding all kinds of danger, including Mexican cartel, cops, and corrupt cops. There's hilarious scene after hilarious scene, as we see pieces of fingers, bathroom shoot outs, and more. They even manage to cause plenty of trouble in a quinceanera party without being noticed by the guests.

Yes, there are plenty of cheap laughs, and some might find the jokes sexist; however, one can look back at the years of golden comedy to see that they weren't exactly aiming for high comedy. What is important here is the execution, and all the actors here play it for fun, giving us many thrills along the way.