Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller haven't acted together in a while, but there was a time that they were seemingly just working together on comedies beause well, i would imagine it made a bunch of money (this one made $170 million.) Zoolander was actually the first time I saw these two work together and much like Zoolander, their performances in Starsky and Hutch worked very well because they have great chemistry on screen.
If you are unfamiliar with the movie it is based on a long-running television program from the 70's. I was too young to have ever watched it but it goes like this: David Starsky (Ben Stiller) is a "strictly by the book" cop who exercises and is constantly training to be the best cop he can be
and Ken Hutchinson (Owen Wilson) is more of a renegade in the law-enforcement system. The opening sequence sees his operation that he has been skimming money from get busted by other cops and he reluctantly shows his badge to the gangsters that he has been helping to succeed in breaking the law for a while.
They end up becoming partners and things don't work out so great at first because they are constantly butting heads on how to handle a case. This begins with them discovering a "floater" (dead body in the water) and Hutch suggests that "these never get solved and there is a lot of paperwork, let's just push it out to sea and let the next precinct handle it."
Through a series of events they end up uncovering a plan on the part of Reese Feldman (Vince Vaughn), a well-known gangster who has discovered a method of smuggling cocaine into the USA. Since both Starsky and Hutch are deep uncercover, they come up with a series of absurd disguises to infiltrate Feldmens' events. Including playing talent-less mimes at his daughter's birthday party
then grizzled bikers infiltrating a biker hangout where the are almost immediately "made" for having fake mustaches
Then finally as business moguls (and this one was my favorite) where Stiller has a great backtory of his character "Maury Finkle, founder of Finkle Fixtures, Biggest Lighting Fixture Chain in the Southland."
While this movie isn't exactly groundbreaking and is just another remake of sorts, it was incredibly entertaining and funny. If you haven't seen it, I belive this is probably in my top 20 or maybe even top 10 silly comedies of all time.