Coffee and Kareem: Great Comedic Timing and Chemistry

Coffee and Kareem is a Netflix original movie starring Ed Helms, Taraji P. Henson, and Terrence Little Gardenhigh. Helms plays a cop who is dating Henson. Gardenhigh is her son and doesn’t like Helms or cops. When both of them witness a drug deal and murder of a crooked cop, they are both on the run. This leads to a lot of funny scenes.

Helms are Gardenhigh have amazing comedic chemistry. The audience can tell they riff off each other and a lot of improve was done here. This is the first starring role for Gardenhigh and he is hilarious. It's always funny when little kids are vulgar in movies. Ed Helms is particularly funny in this because he points out tropes and stereotypes in cop movies.

Betty Gilpin plays a cop and Ronreaco Lee and Andrew Bachelor play drug dealers and they have great comic ability. Gilpin is a crooked cop trying to make money off drug dealing and she has really good riffs with Ed Helms and some good fight scenes. But it’s Lee and Bachelor that are some of the best. Lee is a henchmen that realizes he doesn’t want to do this anymore. Bachelor is trying to move up in the drug ring but during a shootout he plays dead in a really funny way.

The best thing about this movie is that everyone has great comedic skills. Everyone can play off each and all of the jokes feel organic and natural. There is some social commentary on the police force and it's a breakout role for Terrence Little Gardenhigh. This is a great comedy and everyone has great improve skills. This is a must see. 🍔🍔🍔