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Bounty Hunter
Vintage TV tie-in paperback
156 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 12, 1977
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December 14, 2025
Starsky & Hutch, by William Blinn and five other contributors
7 out of 10
It is impossible to dismiss this comedy, even if it is not an unforgettable experience.
In its favor, we have a collection of stars:
Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Juliette Lewis, Jason Bateman, Snoop Dog and the hilarious Will Ferrell.
Some of the performances have been les than spectacular, the film being nominated for two Razzie awards, although it is not clear about Ben Stiller and I did not see why Carmen Electra was considered so bad in her role.
Owen Wilson plays Ken Hutchinson and Ben Stiller is David Starsky.
When they are first assigned to work together, their relationship is not started under the best auspices.
Indeed, Starsky seems to be thorough, while Hutch is too relaxed and lazy, to say the least.
They find a corpse in the river and the latter talks about this particular death as the most difficult to investigate, for there are no fingerprints, most of the clues have been washed away.
So he starts poking the dead body, saying that it is better for the river to take it away, so that it would wash up in a different jurisdiction, to let others bother with it.
The villain of the feature is Reese Feldman aka Vince Vaughn, a drug dealer that the couple of detectives wants to jail.
The first attempt is ridiculous and tragic, for they have a tip saying there are drugs in the garage of the seemingly honest man.
Starsky and Hutch come at the bar mitzvah of the daughter of the drug lord, disguised as mimics.
In fact, the talented actors put on a very good show without words, albeit not appreciated by the audience.
They confront after their show the man that is supposed to posses drugs, taking him to the garage which he should open.
Seeing there is no cooperation from the suspect- who points out with reason that he is handcuffed- Starsky starts shooting at the door and opens it.
Alas, a pony is falling down dead inside, killed by the reckless officer.
In order to get information that would lead to the arrest of Reese Feldman, the team of disgraced investigators travels to the prison where Big Earl aka Will Ferrell is serving a sentence.
This scene is one of the most amusing in the whole film.
For Big Earl is asking all sorts of outre favors in exchange for evidence.
He first wants to see Hutch's belly button.
Then, the blonde detective has to turn his back and then look in anger, like a...dragon!
Finally, the two investigators are asked to perform some more weird sexual games.
Furthermore, their superior officer and presumably all the precinct is able to see the games as they have been recorded by surveillance cameras...
Starsky was asked to ride Hutch in front of the mischievous Big Earl...
Starsky and Hutch is not overwhelming, but fun...
Well, at least at some moments.
7 out of 10
It is impossible to dismiss this comedy, even if it is not an unforgettable experience.
In its favor, we have a collection of stars:
Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Juliette Lewis, Jason Bateman, Snoop Dog and the hilarious Will Ferrell.
Some of the performances have been les than spectacular, the film being nominated for two Razzie awards, although it is not clear about Ben Stiller and I did not see why Carmen Electra was considered so bad in her role.
Owen Wilson plays Ken Hutchinson and Ben Stiller is David Starsky.
When they are first assigned to work together, their relationship is not started under the best auspices.
Indeed, Starsky seems to be thorough, while Hutch is too relaxed and lazy, to say the least.
They find a corpse in the river and the latter talks about this particular death as the most difficult to investigate, for there are no fingerprints, most of the clues have been washed away.
So he starts poking the dead body, saying that it is better for the river to take it away, so that it would wash up in a different jurisdiction, to let others bother with it.
The villain of the feature is Reese Feldman aka Vince Vaughn, a drug dealer that the couple of detectives wants to jail.
The first attempt is ridiculous and tragic, for they have a tip saying there are drugs in the garage of the seemingly honest man.
Starsky and Hutch come at the bar mitzvah of the daughter of the drug lord, disguised as mimics.
In fact, the talented actors put on a very good show without words, albeit not appreciated by the audience.
They confront after their show the man that is supposed to posses drugs, taking him to the garage which he should open.
Seeing there is no cooperation from the suspect- who points out with reason that he is handcuffed- Starsky starts shooting at the door and opens it.
Alas, a pony is falling down dead inside, killed by the reckless officer.
In order to get information that would lead to the arrest of Reese Feldman, the team of disgraced investigators travels to the prison where Big Earl aka Will Ferrell is serving a sentence.
This scene is one of the most amusing in the whole film.
For Big Earl is asking all sorts of outre favors in exchange for evidence.
He first wants to see Hutch's belly button.
Then, the blonde detective has to turn his back and then look in anger, like a...dragon!
Finally, the two investigators are asked to perform some more weird sexual games.
Furthermore, their superior officer and presumably all the precinct is able to see the games as they have been recorded by surveillance cameras...
Starsky was asked to ride Hutch in front of the mischievous Big Earl...
Starsky and Hutch is not overwhelming, but fun...
Well, at least at some moments.
December 15, 2024
Exhaustingly sexist compared to the others I’ve read jn this series, most of which have been pretty good.
September 14, 2015
The novelization of an episode of the TV show. A nice, fun read ... not much more than that.
October 10, 2021
As is true with the other Starsky and Hutch tie-in I've read, the author turns a one-hour episode into a short novel by adding more scenes told from the point-of-views of the bad guys, fleshing out their characterizations quite a bit.
This one involves a dishonest lady bail bondsman and her ruthless bounty hunter murdering a jewel thief and then hiding the body and pulling off some jewel heists to cover their tracks, making it look like the thief is still alive. There plan is full of flaws, but they aren't meant to be super-crooks. Rather, they are thugs who allow greed to overcome what intelligence they have. The story moves along nicely using TV Cop logic and brings the tale to a satisfying conclusion.
This one involves a dishonest lady bail bondsman and her ruthless bounty hunter murdering a jewel thief and then hiding the body and pulling off some jewel heists to cover their tracks, making it look like the thief is still alive. There plan is full of flaws, but they aren't meant to be super-crooks. Rather, they are thugs who allow greed to overcome what intelligence they have. The story moves along nicely using TV Cop logic and brings the tale to a satisfying conclusion.
June 21, 2024
Listen, old 70’s cop show, yeah the guys are gonna be a bit of womanizers and the girlies will unfortunately half the time be written like shit. But this book made the boys like absolute assholes and dick heads who cheat- like that did not happen in the episode idk why the fuck max Fischer decided to make them cheaters… anyway… this sucks cause like the Jerry konig detective stuff was really fun but then it was just ended with “their hanging out with strippers and cheating on their gf’s” like it wasn’t even just flirty it was straight up cheating 😭😭😭
November 25, 2023
Fun, well-written adaptation of the Starsky & Hutch episode “Bounty Hunter” which was the final episode of the first season. This is tightly written and includes some expanded scenes that help fill out the novel, clarify parts of the story, as well as give added depth to the villains - and a little to Starsky & Hutch as well. Overall a great little story and one that I really enjoyed reading.
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