Shhh. It's supposed to be a secret to the movie-going public, but for some years they've been running a giant supercomputer at a secret location in Burbank. It's called The Buddyizer.

Kind of a high-concept Cuisinart, it takes actors/personae and tosses them together in pairs in a premise salad ("fish out of water" is a popular ingredient). These days, like haute cuisine, producers prefer buddy movies "blackened" and the haute buddy is the "Yo' ass" guy -- as in "I'm gonna kick/bust yo' ass" or "I'm sending yo' ass back to St. Louis."
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You can almost spy trouble the moment you see four screenwriters attached to a movie -- especially when its two stars are notorious for their own on-set input.

I-Spy was conceived by Marianne Wibberly and Cormac Wibberly and punched up by Jay Scherick and David Ronn before it was turned over to Eddie Murphy and Owen Wilson to hone it for themselves.
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