Hot Pursuit - 1 1/2 smiles

I wanted to like "Hot Pursuit," starring Reese Witherspoon and Sophia Vergara. And after seeing it, I'm not sure how it got made. The story, which takes the 'odd couple' concept, pairing a by-the-book female cop and a Spanish-speaking wife of a cartel stool-pigeon, doesn't work. That they don't like each other is more believable than when they're supposed to like each other. There's more chemistry in the outtakes at the end of the movie. The road trip doesn't work either, with the humor based on stereotypes and bad acting. One of the reasons I don't often see comedies is because they are too stupid to be funny. I should have remembered that and not seen 'Hot Pursuit.'