A buddy movie is a film genre built around two mismatched or complementary characters who are forced together and have to learn to work as a team, usually while bickering their way through an adventure. Think 48 Hours, Lethal Weapon, Rush Hour, or Planes Trains and Automobiles. The formula is endlessly flexible — buddy cop, buddy road trip, buddy heist — and the dynamic between the leads is always the real point. The genre practically runs on chemistry, banter, and the eventual bromantic epiphany.
Everyone agreed the film was a classic buddy movie: two total opposites stuck in a car together for two hours, driving each other insane.
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(US) A buddy film.
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