纽约警局老干探吉米（布鲁斯•威利斯 Bruce Willis 饰）笃信沉默是金，办案一丝不苟。他有个黑人拍档保罗（崔西•摩根 Tracy Morgan 饰）刚升为探员，自以为奥巴马做了美国总统，腰杆子就硬了。不但对小毛贼颐指气使，而且对老干探也不那么尊敬。因为一张1952年的珍贵棒球卡盗窃案，吉米和保罗联手出击。不过，这次的麻烦似乎没那么容易摆平。在调查中，一连串案件浮出水面，包括墨西哥美女绑架案、黑帮分子毒品交易案等等。这对搭档其实没有经过什么大风大浪，所以这次如临大敌。而且，他们还都出现了后院起火的症状：吉米莫名其妙搞丢了女儿出嫁举办婚礼的一大笔钱，而保罗虽然像只呆头鹅，却被妻子怀疑有出轨劣迹。这种事令两人非常闹心。他们不得不一边办案，一边苦口婆心地对家人解释自己的清白，这种两头忙的窘境快把他们逼疯了……
Joachim 是一个生活在巴黎、事业成功的电视编剧。四十岁生日的临晨，他决定放弃一切——孩子、友人、敌人、爱情与遗憾——去美国从零开始。之后，他带领“新滑稽艳舞团”（New Burlesque ）回到故乡进行巡演。艳舞团团员因Joachim 而对法国巴黎充满向往。幽默的表演和脱衣舞娘丰满的身材令男女老少沉迷不已。尽管下榻的旅馆平庸不堪，使用的电梯音乐（musique d’ascenseur ）乏善可陈，又缺乏资金，女演员依然营造出了新奇、热情而欢乐的气氛。但是，他们决定在巴黎演出压轴戏，将巡演推向高潮的梦想破裂了：Joachim 的老“朋友”背叛了他，取消了其预定的演戏场所。巴黎之行似乎注定来去匆匆，过去种种伤感的回忆突然被揭开……
Joachim, a former Parisian television producer had left everything behind - his children, friends, enemies, lovers and regrets to start a new life in America. But he returns with a team of New Burlesque strip-tease performers whom he has filled with romantic dreams of a tour of France, of Paris!
Traveling from town to town, despite the cheap hotel rooms and lack of money, the curvaceous showgirls invent an extravagant fantasy world of warmth and hedonism that wins an enthusiastic response from men and women alike.
But their dream of a tour culminating in a last grand show in Paris goes up in smoke when Joachim is betrayed by an old friend and loses the theatre where they were due to perform. An obligatory return journey to the capital violently reopens the old wounds of his past...
