Directed by: Todd Phillips
Starring: Owen Wilson, Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Juliette Lewis, Amy Smart, Carmen Electra, Chris Penn, Fred Williamson, Snoop Dogg
David Starky (Ben Stiller) and Ren Hutch (Owen Wilson) become police partners in Base City. They find a dead body in the water and trace it to Reece Felman Industries headed by Reece (Vinc Vaughn). They begin interviewing cheerleaders, Huggy Bear, and convicts. Eventually the end up with a bag of cocaine. The police scan it and find out its artificial sweetener. Starsky and Hutch are fired from the case but interview other cheerleaders. Starsky has some of the sweetener and takes them to a disco where he goes crazy and threatens the DJ. Hutch stops him and they find out it wasn't sweetener. WHen they leave a Korean hitman takes shots at Starsky. They trace him and question him. They find out that Reece hired him so the crash his daughters Bar Mitzfah but find out he didn't have any drugs. They are suspended but stay on the case.
Continuity mistake: When Hutch tackles Starsky to the ground after his gun goes off in the disco, Starsky's badge falls to the ground beside his head. Hutch grabs it and holds it up, telling people to calm down, but when the shot returns to Starsky the badge is still there next to his head. (00:49:40)
Trivia: Will Ferrell goes uncredited for his role as the dragon-loving inmate.
Question: Why do Starsky and Hutch come back in the car after visiting Big Earl in the prison when they went to see him at the bar on motorcycles?
Answer: They wore disguises to blend in the biker bar and talk up Big Earl as plausible drug dealers, but when they discovered he was in prison, they figured going in as cops would intimidate him and could offer him a deal. When they said they would get him a radio.
Answer: It's entirely possible, since they were not wearing their disguises at the prison, that they had already changed clothes, and therefore, could change vehicles.
Phoenix