Mr. Aykroyd and Mr. Hanks play well together, but the funniest performance in the film is that of Dabney Coleman, as the smut king (who lisps).
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05/20/03
Dragnet (1987)
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Reviews Counted:28
Fresh:13
Rotten:15
Average Rating:4.9/10
Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: A parody of the famous TV series, starring Dan Aykroyd as the nephew of LA's most upstanding cop. The new Sergeant Friday tries valiantly to continue his uncle's untiring quest for law and order --... [More]
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Harry Morgan, Christopher Plummer
Director: Tom Mankiewicz
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Reviews for Dragnet
Top CriticIt's fun a lot of the time. Several individual shots are hilarious.
01/01/00
Top CriticMost of the time it's fresh, funny, and surprising.
05/20/08
Top CriticYes, it is lowbrow and sophomoric. What you'd call dumb-de-dumb-dumb fun.
01/01/00
Top CriticOne wonders how someone can do so many parodies as Aykroyd has and still not have the slightest idea of how to do a parody.
01/01/00
Aykroyd’s script has more than its share of clever, witty ideas, but the film still feels the need to descend way too often to Police Academy-style heroes-dress-up-like-idiots sequences.
05/20/08
More innocuous than inventive.
05/20/08
Top CriticThe script is a gold mine of one-liners.
01/01/00
Top CriticIt simply doesn't come off, and the viewer will be left with an empty feeling, a vacuous notion that somehow the laugh scenes slipped by unnoticed. They were never really there.
05/20/08
Deservedly a critical and box-office fiasco.
05/20/08
Entertaining enough, but a pity they didn't draft in more of the Eisenhower context.
01/26/06
No review available.
12/01/04
Strident pop-culture revisionism.
06/22/04
Annoying comedy.
05/24/06
"the interplay of Aykroyd and Hanks makes it worthwhile"
07/29/02
Quite a fun take-off of a boring TV show.
08/30/02
Barely recommendable buddy-cop schtick-fest.
07/27/02
No review available.
05/24/04
No review available.
03/30/05
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