YMMV / Tango & Cash

• Awesome Music: Need a score for an 80s action-comedy buddy-cop film? Look no further than Harold Faltermeyer.
• Crosses the Line Twice: During the opening scene, Tango shoots a tanker, and cocaine starts spilling out. "What do you know? It's snowing!" He then tastes a little and jokingly asks everyone else present, "Anybody wanna get high?"
• Designated Hero: The eponymous protagonists. Both are seen and implied to be jerkasses and are more than happy to break the rules whenever they seek fit (even to the point of using Police Brutality). Case in point, the scene with Cash and the suspect he proceeded to nearly strangle with a chair and the Noodle Incident between Tango and Face:
  Face: This pig cop and his pig friends broke my leg, my ribs and my jaw! (Tsking)
  Cash: You broke that jaw? Why?
  Tango: I was having a bad day.
  • This is especially true of Gabriel Cash. His Establishing Character Moment involves him commandeering a bystander’s car and wrecking it in his pursuit of a hitman as well as endangering several civilians in doing so.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: To quote Brion James:
  It's one of the biggest pirated videos in the history of Russia. There were 80,000 pirated copies. Warner Bros. was crazy not to market it properly, but that film was huge. I went to the Ukraine when I was shooting another film, and I was mobbed. I was in the Black Sea and I had no idea that people even knew who I was.
• Ham and Cheese: The performances of Kurt Russell, Jack Palance and Robert D'Zar, which makes their roles all the more memorable.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Gabriel Cash's interrogation of the Chinese Triad soldier who tried to kill him in the prologue involves strangling him by tossing him to the floor, placing a chair on his throat, and sitting on it, an act of Police Brutality that gets him in hot water when the soldier testifies in court as part of the investigation of the Federal agent he and Ray Tango (supposedly) killed. Now think how bad Cash would look to the public in the post-George Floyd era.
• One-Scene Wonder: Of sorts: Clint Howard as Tango's inmate, Slinky.
• Narm Charm: Between the many one-liners, several of the scene-chewing performances and Brion James's "British" accent, it is so unapologetically Eighties that one can't help but find a certain appeal to the film.
• Spiritual Licensee: The 1992 Namco game Lucky & Wild was more than a little inspired by this movie.
• Woolseyism: The Latin American translation changes Tango's "Rambo is a pussy" quip to "Rambo es blando" (Rambo is soft) which, while softer in language, do gives it a Sublime Rhyme.

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