Starsky and Hutch finds us once again lost in the time-warp world of big screen adaptations of popular 70's TV shows. This year's entry is light and breezy and offers the world another chance to fall in love with a pimp named "Huggy Bear."

Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson take on the roles made famous by Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul and put a typical comical spin on them (taking things seriously just wouldn't have worked) as two vastly different cops thrown together as partners and plunged into a case involving a wicked drug dealer (played with the usual dry flair by Vince Vaughn).

Wilson is the sort of carefree cop who looks at it as a job rather than a calling, while Stiller is the anal "by-the-book" officer, Which, of course, doesn't keep him from driving like a mad man while behind the wheel of his beloved 1974 Ford Torino. Vaughn coasts through the picture as Reese Feldman, a thug with a really bad temper. Snoop Dogg is all too perfectly cast as the likable Huggy Bear. And not surprisingly, Will Ferrell gets most of the laughs in a bit part as Big Earl, a sexually repressed jail bird with strange little fetishes.

Starsky and Hutch was directed by Todd Phillips who made last year's hilarious Old School and he does a good job keeping things light and brisk. Certainly his take on the material is played for laughs, but thankfully, it works much better than those dreadful Charlie's Angels movies and that insipid take on I Spy starring Eddie Murphy and...Owen Wilson. This is more on par with the Dan Aykroyd/Tom Hanks vehicle Dragnet.

Not all the jokes work. The big disco dance competition isn't funny at all and really slows the movie down. It's reminiscent of the model runway face-off sequence in Ben Stiller's own Zoolander, only in that picture, I found myself laughing.

Still, there are plenty of laughs to be found in the surprisingly racy (it is PG-13, but it pushes it's rating to the edge) Starsky and Hutch, and Stiller and Wilson once again show that they do have genuine chemistry.

This picture is certainly more humorous than some of the other comedies out there right now (i.e. Eurotrip). In the end, I'd say I was slightly more entertained by Broken Lizard's underrated Club Dread, but Starsky and Hutch isn't far behind. Bring on The Dukes of Hazzard baby!