It 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.
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05/20/08
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
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.
03/30/05
No review available.
06/25/05
No review available.
10/04/04
No review available.
03/19/04
Annoying comedy.
05/24/06
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
No review available.
10/14/02
One 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
No review available.
08/20/03
No review available.
03/11/04
No review available.
05/24/04
More innocuous than inventive.
05/20/08
No review available.
07/29/05
The script is a gold mine of one-liners.
01/01/00
Top Critic"the interplay of Aykroyd and Hanks makes it worthwhile"
07/29/02
No review available.
06/01/05
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