History Film / TangoAndCash

* TheDragon: Requin, a hulking, razor-wielding British thug who does BigBad Perett's dirty work, including arranging the set-up and disposing of the people involved.

''Tango and Cash'' is a 1989 Creator/AndreiKonchalovsky action-comedy starring Creator/SylvesterStallone, Creator/KurtRussell, Creator/JackPalance, Creator/TeriHatcher, Creator/BrionJames, Geoffrey Lewis, Creator/JamesHong, Michael J. Pollard, Robert Z'Dar, Michael Jeter, and Creator/ClintHoward.

* HiddenWire: Placed on the man Tango and Cash are framed for killing. But the wire isn't used to incriminate them, but to explain the origins of the tape with an incriminating recording of them that had been constructed from numerous real recordings of their voices.

* InnocentInnuendo: The back massage scene (Cash and Katherine are working on putting one of the discs of Cash's spine back into place. The excited, pleased sounds and talking about how "I can feel it's almost in!" don't really make Tango comfortable). To Tango's credit, he ''doesn't'' immediately run in and kick Cash's ass for hitting on his sister. Unfortunately sis has [[TheGadfly no interest in explaining]] that it's NotWhatItLooksLike.
* InPrisonWithTheRogues: Aafter being framed, Tango and Cash are forced to accept a plea bargain that allows them a light sentence in a minimum-security prison. Instead they're dumped in a supermax loaded with violent inmates the duo themselves put away.
* InterrogationByVandalism: Tango's interrogation of the sound technician who testified in court against them (and who was also the one who manufactured the incriminating fake audio tape) takes it UpToEleven via Tango demolishing the sound tech's equipment with a shotgun ''and'' threatening to shoot said tech's head off with it.

** Also "Plan B", when pulling a HighAltitudeInterrogation on Requin doesn't works... duct-taping ''a grenade'' to his face, which [[EveryoneHasStandards actually makes Cash classify Tango as a complete psychopath and say that it disgusts him]]. [[spoiler:Turns out that the grenade was a dud and Cash was just ''pretending'' to be disgusted.]]

* MsFanservice: Tango's sister, Katherine (played by Creator/TeriHatcher). She's seen doing a strip tease in front of a giant fan (she's a stripper and her bar has some high-quality routines... ItMakesSenseInContext).

* OneLiner: Maybe the most one liner-ridden script ever written.

* RelativeError: Cash initially assumes Tango's sister to be his girlfriend. For that matter, so did probably most viewers, since it's never spelled out until Tango accidentally walks on on them. Which, when you think about it, [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic unwittingly makes Cash far more of an asshole]] when he starts flirting with her behind Tango's back than he would [[MySisterIsOffLimits otherwise be]].

* TransparentCloset: There are several moments that hint at Tango being gay, although it never explicitly says as much. And he is not very enthusiastic when Cash drops soap in prison shower.
-->'''Cash:''' I hear they have a gym. You can start pumping at 5am!

* WeaponizedCar: The fashionably-militarized 1988 Chevrolet Silverado 2500, with side-mounted minigun, concealed machine guns, armored and up-engined up the wazoo.

* BrickJoke: crossed with a literal ChekovsGun; Cash checks his spare pistol early in the film and notices the sight is shifted, getting pissed that someone messed with it (this is the gun that gets planted at the setup, framing him and Tango). At the climax, Tango and Cash agree to take Perett alive... Until he threatens Katherine, at which they instantly shoot him in the head. Their excuse?

* BiggerIsBetterInBed: InvertedTrope: Tango makes several jokes throughout the movie about the fact [[TeenieWeenie Cash's penis is smaller than his own]] (which they discover in the prison showers) (the gag would be played straight with Tango).

* BiggusDickus: InvertedTrope: Tango makes several jokes throughout the movie about the fact Cash's penis is smaller than his own (which they discover in the prison showers) (the gag would be played straight with Tango).

* FingertipDrugAnalysis: Tango checks a substance in the beginning to confirm that it's cocaine this way.

--->'''Cash''': Do you have ''any'' idea of what we're working with here?! This (the armed Silverado) is a ''violent'' work of ''art''!\\

* FanserviceExtra: Several topless female strippers are seen in the strip club.

* CoolGuns: Cash's revolver with laser sight.

* ComplexityAddiction: Perret's plan is absurdly complicated and it's lampshaded as such by the other crime lords that hear it when he proposes it. Perret's response is that it's needed to make sure that Tango and Cash don't end up becoming martyrs amongst the other cops. The other crime lords end up agreeing as a result for the moment. When the titular duo manages to escape prison the crime lords tell Perret that they believe his plan didn't worked and are going to send assassins to find them, and Perret belts out a borderline-whiny BigNo in response that shuts them up and they never do it.
* CowboyCop: Tango and Cash are both established as wild, rules-flouting cops who get results.

* DisguisedInDrag: Cash, when he gets away from the strip club that Katherine works in with Katherine in tow. The cops don't look close enough (even when they are at point-blank range), mistaking Katherine and Cash for a pair of [[ButchLesbian Butch Lesbians]].

* FanService: Despite heavily targeting a male demographic, seeing the backsides of Stallone and Russell in the shower scene likely helped many a girlfriend sit through this film. Meanwhile, plenty of FanService is also provided for the male viewers, mainly in the form of several topless women and Creator/TeriHatcher doing a strip dance in front of a giant fan (she's a stripper and her bar has some high-quality routines... ItMakesSenseInContext).
* FunWithAcronyms: F.U.B.A.R.: F*cked Up Beyond All Recognition.

* InPrisonWithTheRogues: after being framed, Tango and Cash are forced to accept a plea bargain that allows them a light sentence in a minimum-security prison. Instead they're dumped in a supermax loaded with violent inmates the duo themselves put away.

* MsFanservice: Tango's sister, Katherine (played by Creator/TeriHatcher).
* MySisterIsOffLimits: Tango doesn't want Cash dating his sister. When Cash says he'll wait until he has Tango's blessing, he tells him, "In that case, never!" One of the more respectful cases, actually; he walks in on his sister massaging one of Cash's spinal discs into place, but stays quiet and out of sight, plotting his ''future'' vengeance on Cash.

* {{Pun}}: Seeing newspaper headlines on the rivalry between the two supercops, DaChief growls that it's "Downtown Clown versus Beverley Hill Wop."

* TeenyWeenie: During the aforementioned shower scene, Cash takes a glance down below and calls Tango "Pee-Wee". Later, when the two pick up guns for battle, Cash notices he has the smaller gun. He asks, "Why's yours so much bigger than mine?" and Tango replies, "Genetics, Pee-Wee."
* {{Troperrific}}: One of the last movies Hollywood released in the 1980s (it came out December 22nd, 1989) it seems out to cram every single '80s action movie moment into one movie, although it can swing wildly between {{Deconstruction}} and PlayingItStraight, sometimes in the same scene.

--->'''Owen''': It could drive through a brick wall.

''Tango and Cash'' is a 1989 Creator/AndreiKonchalovsky action-comedy starring Creator/SylvesterStallone and Creator/KurtRussell.

The story centers on two rival Los Angeles policemen: dapper, straitlaced cop "Ray" Tango (Stallone), and aggressive, rough-around-the-edges cop "Gabe" Cash (Russell), and their attempts to outdo each other. But when an arch-enemy of theirs, drug lord Yves Perret (Creator/JackPalance), decides to even the score and frames them for murder, Tango and Cash suddenly find themselves among the same prisoners they had put away themselves. It doesn't take long before they realize they're going to have to put aside their differences and work together in order to get even with Perret and clear their names, even if it ends up killing them.

** For a second (as they are getting out of the ''RV From Hell'' you can see Tango carrying a Calico M900

* InnocentInnuendo: The back massage scene (Cash and Katherine are working on putting one of the discs of Cash's spine back into place. The excited, pleased sounds and talking about how "I can feel it's almost in!" don't really make Tango comfortable). To Tango's credit, he ''doesn't'' immediately run in and kick Cash's ass for hitting on his sister.

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: This is all but ''openly stated'' by Perret's allies, who basically suggest sending their heavies out to kill Tango and Cash. Perret rejects this on the basis that doing so would make the two martyrs, but the real reason appears to be a mixture of ComplexityAddiction and the fact that there wouldn't be a movie if they did.

* TeenyWeenie: During the aforementioned shower scene, Cash takes a glance down below and calls Tango "Pee-Wee". Later, when the two pick up guns for battle, Tango notices he has the smaller gun. He asks, "Why's yours so much bigger than mine?" and Cash replies, "Genetics, Pee-Wee."

The story centers on two rival Los Angeles policemen: dapper, straitlaced cop "Ray" Tango (Stallone), and aggressive, rough-around-the-edges cop "Gabe" Cash (Russell), and their attempts to outdo each other. But when an arch-enemy of theirs, drug lord Yves Perret (Jack Palance), decides to even the score and frames them for murder, Tango and Cash suddenly find themselves among the same prisoners they had put away themselves. It doesn't take long before they realize they're going to have to put aside their differences and work together in order to get even with Perret and clear their names, even if it ends up killing them.

* MySisterIsOffLimits: Tango doesn't want Cash dating his sister. When Cash says he'll wait until he has Tango's blessing, he tells him, "In that case, never!" One of the more respectful cases, actually; he walks in on his sister giving Cash massaging , but stays quiet and out of sight, plotting his ''future'' vengeance on Cash.

* InnocentInnuendo: The back massage scene (Cash and Katherine are working on putting one of Cash's discs back into place. The excited, pleased sounds and talking about how "I can feel it's almost in!" don't really make Tango any comfortable).

* MySisterIsOffLimits: Tango doesn't want Cash dating his sister. When Cash says he'll wait until he has Tango's blessing, he tells him, "In that case, never!"

--->'''Cash''': Do you have ''any'' idea of what we're working with here?! This (the armed Silverado) is a ''violent'' work of ''art''!
--->'''Tango''' (checking the minigun on the Silverado's side): And who owns the pink slip? Satan?

* DeadpanSnarker: Cash. Tango has his moments as well, most of them aimed at Cash (look up on CoolCar for an example. He later shoots one last dig at the fact that Owen was the inventor of Cash's "[[ShoePhone bazooka]]-[[ArmedLegs boots]]").