5 Movie Duos Who Need To Stop Working Together

By Ollie Poppert / May 20, 2013

Actor/director collaborations have been behind some of the most respected and revered works to come out of Hollywood. For a select few, the meeting of the minds between a director€™s ambition and an actor€™s execution can be cinematic gold - for others it can quickly become out-dated, obsolete and just plain boring. There are those who - for lack of a better analogy - need to stop working altogether (Adam Sandler and Dennis Dugan come to mind) and then there are those who were once capable of greatness but have since faded to insignificance. These aren€™t bad filmmaker€™s per se; rather talented individuals guilty of resting on their laurels and creating redundant films, perhaps. Here are the top 5 movie duos who - for the sake of their careers - need to stop working together...

5. Larry Charles & Sacha Baron Cohen

The Charles/ Cohen partnership started well enough with the amusing Borat before dissolving to the less amusing Bruno and finally the hardly amusing Dictator. Borat was enjoyable because it was something different, the concept was hardly new but the bottom line was it was funny (even if it had nothing on the Ali G Show). Baron Cohen has a wit quicker than most and is one of the few performers who can unequivocally be labelled fearless. Aside from the fact his films are getting lamer, with the profile he now has as well as some of the directors he€™s worked with he no longer needs formulaic, shock and awe comedies of the like he and Charles have now delivered three films in a row.