Some things just work naturally well together, like Greek yogurt and honey. Clearly director Ruben Fleischer and Jesse Eisenberg have a similar chemistry, having worked on Zombieland together; although deciding which one is the yogurt and which one is the honey is less obvious.

This time however, they've recruited some alumnus help from TV land to join them, in the shape of Danny McBride (who played the awesome Kenny Powers in Eastbound & Down), Aziz Ansari (Park & Recreation's Tom Haverford) and Nick Swardsen (Terry Bernadino in Reno 911!).

With such a top heavy comic equation involved, it's no surprise to learn that 30 Minutes or Less is a comedy, albeit one that has been welded tightly to the frame of a heist film.

Father and son relationships can be tough at the best of times, but for Dwayne (McBride) his particular family hill is a whole lot tougher to climb. His old man is not so affectionately known as The Major (Fred Ward) and his years in the military have made him a tough dad to love.

It gets so bad for Dwayne that he decides that there's only one thing he can do: hire a hitman to take his old man out. With his dad out of the way, he would then be able to get his hands on the huge lottery win The Major had.

The thing is, hitmen aren't cheap, so Dwayne and his best pal Travis (Swardson) have to come up with a way of getting their hands on a lot of cash quick. Their plan is quite an ingenious one: they get someone else to get it for them. Obviously you just can't ask someone to go get a large sum of money for you, but Travis builds quite an incentive: a wearable bomb. But who can they get to wear it?

Enter Nick (Eisenberg); a down-trodden pizza delivery guy who is often given the impossible task of delivering pizzas to places miles away in 30 minutes or less. Dwayne and Travis, dressed as apes, get Nick to deliver pizza to them, but knock him out on his arrival. When he wakes up, he finds a bomb attached to his body. They tell him he has ten hours to get them $100,000 or they push the button and...

So with his best friend Chet (Ansari) on hand to help, they decide that the best way to get that much cash in such a short span of time is to rob a bank. But with not just the clock ticking but an actual bomb, there's a fair amount of pressure on the pair to get the bank job done right.

I don't know why, but I was envisaging something on a bigger scale for a remake of the remake of Planet of the Apes.

Although the film takes a while to warm up on both the comedy and action front, it doesn't take too long before it hits its stride.

A possible reason for the stuttery start is probably due to the setting up of Nick and Chet's relationship. It transpires that Chet is a twin, with his sibling being a girl. It also transpires that Nick has a crush on said sister. This set up produces some nice gags, but at the expense of slowing the pace of the entire film down.

And yes, McBride is essentially playing the same character he always does, but in his defence, no one plays him quite as well as he does. Having a comedy buddy in the way of Swardson also helps, as the pair together make a thoroughly engaging double act.

It's also nice to see Michael Peña in an unusually light-hearted role as the hired hitman Chango.

As far as Fleischer is concerned, he has proved once again that he can cope admirably in combining genres, as he does here with comedy and action, in an effortless fashion.

All in all, it's a great little film to accompany pizza on a Friday night in.