I’m a fan of the
Comedy
Central show, and had great expectations for the movie version, but, as
I
watched Reno 911: Miami, I was
reminded that these are the same
guys who wrote Herbie
Fully Loaded, The
Pacifier and Jimmy Fallon’s Taxi. Uh-oh.
Maybe they were saving their best material for this
movie? No.
Thomas Lennon stars as Lt.
James Dangle – commander of a police force more incompetent
than the Keystone
Cops and Police
Academy
combined. They have
been invited to a police convention
in Miami Beach that sounds like fun in the sun, but they might be
surprised
with what awaits them (just like the guys from Police
Academy 5: Assignment:
Miami Beach were). While
they are shut
out of the convention hall, a bio-terror attack takes place inside,
forcing the
quarantine of over 2000 police officers, including the entire Miami Beach
police force.
Can the Reno
sheriffs protect and serve Miami,
while also catching the people behind the heinous attack before it is
too late?
Instead of creating a movie,
the Reno 911
gang has made a dumber version of their TV show, while adding curse
words and
nudity, which is what I would expect from 10-year olds.
In between some funny stuff, and a few cameos
ranging from A-list to D-list, Reno 911: Miami is a
movie that
needs better dialogue and a series of scenes that actually care about
the
plot.
Most of the time, much like
the TV show, we follow the antics of the sheriffs as they go from crime
scene
to crime scene in COPS
documentary style, but these cops can’t seem to do
anything right, which is the joke that gets beaten into the ground. They mainly rely on shock
sight gags that
work from time to time, and plenty of gross out humor that rarely works.
By now, all of the actors
have fully fleshed out their characters, but none add something new and
exciting, while no one seems to be working all that hard. The funniest moments in
the movie rely on
good dialogue, and revealing how idiotic these people are or how they
are
outsiders in this world, but co-writer Lennon and co-writer/director
Ben Garant
(who plays Junior in the movie and TV program) don’t provide
enough of those
moments. A movie
version of the TV show
was a chance to seek new horizons, go where the crew has never gone
before or
tell a story of epic scope, but Garant, Lennon and the rest would
rather rely
on jokes about vomit, excrement and masturbation.
1
½ Waffles (Out Of 4)
Reno
911: Miami is
rated R for sexual content, nudity, crude humor, language and drug
use
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