The Rock and Kevin Hart Go For Comedy Tag Team Championship In Central Intelligence

[divider type=”space_thin”] I giggle every time I hear the tagline for Central Intelligence: Saving the world takes a little Hart and a big Johnson. Honestly, I warned myself that that might be the best laugh of the whole movie. I may have been a bit hasty in that assessment. While I’m a fan of his standup – I’m a Grown Little Man captured some parenting truths that I didn’t know I needed to hear out loud – I didn’t love Hart’s Ride Along with Ice Cube. I mean I didn’t hate it, but that’s not an endorsement. With Ride Along 2 coming out soon, I was worried that Hart was turning into a one trick pony. Exhibit A: Get Hard. This movie was good for a chuckle, but it wasn’t laugh out loud funny like I was hoping the combination of him and Will Farrell would be. They seemed to improv wonderfully together, but the two of them together was, at times, overwhelming. That and the plot’s reliance on race and class as its only jokes left me wanting. It boiled down to an odd couple movie in which male-friendship starts under sketchy circumstances (a lie) and evolves into something real. Which leads up quite naturally to… Exhibit B: The Wedding Ringer. Here Hart stars alongside Josh “the voice of Olaf” Gad. It’s the story of two men who are nothing alike who become intertwined based on a lie – wait a second! This feels so familiar. Along side Hart is Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. He is basically a professional muscular teddy bear and charmer. We don’t know what to do with him when he venture…