? The fictional bumblers of the Reno sheriff’s department, mildly popularized by the Comedy Central series, get their chance to strut their inept stuff on the streets and beaches of south Florida during a police convention. This is the kind of movie that’s hard to describe without using the word hijinks. Despite a few raunchy moments and some foul language, this is more or less the same sort of thing the Police Academy movies did in the 1980s, or the Keystone Kops in the 1910s.
+ Making no pretense of realism, or three-dimensional characters, the movie is simply 80 minutes of silliness, and you’re probably bound to laugh at something. For me, it was the Rock’s self-parodying cameo.
- The TV show is a parody of the reality show Cops, but that’s less emphasized here. A lot of the action is the gang traveling, or playing sexual shenanigans in cheap motels, etc. They still occasionally talk to the camera. They vaguely mock cop movies like Die Hard, at least in the opening scene, and those with Paul Rudd as a Cuban-sounding crime lord. But mostly it’s just an extended sitcom episode in which characters accidentally shoot each other, or mistakenly blow stuff up and say “My bad.” One of the women spends half the movie figuring out how she drunkenly got a tattoo; you wait for a comic payoff that never comes.
= *1/2 Strictly for fans of the TV show (the cast is pretty much intact) or those who longed for another Police Academy sequel, this misfires almost as often as the characters.
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reviewed 2/23/07
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