The comedy gang from the popular television series takes their highly polished improvised comedic stylings to the big screen for bawdier and more explosive laughs.
Reno 911!: Miami (2007)
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Reviews Counted:91
Fresh:32
Rotten:59
Average Rating:5.1/10
Consensus: Reno 911!'s anarchic brand of comedy loses much in translation to the big screen where it feels slapdash and shallow.
Rated: R [See Full Rating] for sexual content, nudity, crude humor, language and drug use
Runtime: 84 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Feb 23, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $20,277,437
Synopsis: Comedy Central's cult-favorite COPS-spoof series, RENO 911! comes to the big screen with RENO 911!: MIAMI. The film follows members of the Reno P.D. as they desert the bright flashing lights of the... Comedy Central's cult-favorite COPS-spoof series, RENO 911! comes to the big screen with RENO 911!: MIAMI. The film follows members of the Reno P.D. as they desert the bright flashing lights of the biggest little city in the world for sand and surf and an invitation to the annual police officers' convention. It will come as no surprise to regular RENO-watchers that the incompetent police force--led by the earnest, hot-pants-wearing Lt. Jim Dangle (Thomas Lennon)--hit an administrative snag, and aren't allowed into the convention. But the crew decides to make the most of their multi-hour bus trip to Florida, until an emergency call to duty cuts their impromptu vacation short: they are expected to keep the peace in Miami while the rest of the nation's police forces are quarantined due to a biochemical warfare attack on the convention center. Finding themselves way out of their league in a high-tech police station and Mustang patrol cars, the Reno cops ineptly stumble through Miami, leaving destruction and hilarity in their wake. Although the RENO 911! police-farce schtick is often compared to the screwball comedy of the POLICE ACADEMY franchise, the improvisational comedic talent of its troupe sets it apart. Actors Kerri Kenney-Silver (as the unstable Deputy Trudy Wiegel) and Robert Ben Garant (as the loose-cannon Deputy Travis Junior) affectionately delve into the wildly stereotypical characters they portray, while also adding doses of humility that invoke a natural desire to root for them. RENO 911!: MIAMI allows the perpetual underdogs to really shine, providing a positive, warm message as an undertone to the over-the-top zany comedic antics. [More]
Starring: Thomas Lennon, Cedric Yarbrough, Carlos Alazraqui, Wendi McLendon-Covey
Starring: Thomas Lennon, Cedric Yarbrough, Carlos Alazraqui, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Niecy Nash, Mary Birdsong, Paul Rudd, Nick Swardson, Patton Oswalt, Oscar Nunez, Paul Reubens, Kerri Kenney Silver
Director: Robert Ben Garant
Director: Robert Ben Garant
Producer: Danny DeVito, Stacey Sher, Michael Shamberg, John Landgraf
Composer: Craig Wedren
Studio: Paramount Pictures
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Reviews for Reno 911!: Miami
Broken up into four episodes of the television show, who knows, this might be a masterpiece. Seen at one sitting, it falls well short of that. Not for lack of trying. More for trying a little too hard.
The Reno 911! movie is a lot like the Reno 911! TV show except everybody's naked and it's not as funny.
Has its crude little charms, but for a movie based upon such a cutting and acerbic series there is no excuse for how forgettable it ultimately is.
As a movie, it's like a spandex banana hammock stretched out over Lt. Dangle's crotch. Funny, but frighteningly thin.
It's a bit like last year's Miami Vice movie, except there are more breasts and the laughs are intentional.
It is marred by a lack of inspiration, some flat celebrity cameos, and the same gay jokes and identical situations over and over again.
For funny, it’s not even on the same map of the former Soviet Union as, say, Borat. But the straight-outta-cable Reno 911: Miami is funnier than Super Troopers and at least four of six Police Academys.
Joyfully ridiculous...proudly puerile... revels in obscenity... immature violence...
Running a mere 80 minutes and somehow still feeling heavily padded, this Cops spoof yields a few amusing (if widely spaced) moments but otherwise simply revels in the gratuitous nudity, language and below-the-belt gags that an "R" rating provides.
The film's longer running time means more dead spots and the more elaborate stunts demand tighter scripting and less room to improvise, which is a shame since improvisation is the Reno gang's real strength.
The actors behind this show are far more talented than this movie suggests -- many of their funniest quirks haven't made the final cut -- and there's no excuse beyond simple quick-buck greed for such a sloppy effort.
It's a pure delight that the show's genius performance troupe has assembled one of the highest-concept, lowest-brow, most uproarious movie debuts since the surprise sensation of last year's cable crossover Borat.
While the characters are funny in Reno 911!: Miami, they really could use a straight man, or at least someone who isn't totally incompetent. There are plenty of Bob Goldthwaits in the cast, but no Steve Guttenberg.
People unfamiliar with the show might find the movie amusing. People unaware of the Keystone Kops might find it hilarious. But for fans of the series, the movie plays like a stretched-out version of one of the less-stellar episodes.
This is not the kind of movie where you want to waste any time on character development; you only need to know that, for these guys, 'serve and protect' has been replaced by 'my bad'.
If you're a fan of the show, you'll probably be a fan of the movie -- which mostly retains the Super Troopers-meets-Cops-by-way-of-Christopher-Guest-only-not-quite-as-funny vibe.
A formulaic, unfunny farce that will leave you nostalgic for Police Academy.
The gags vary -- a tattooed-breast mystery kinda sags -- but there are lots of laughs.
It's a lot easier to pack laughs into a half-hour television show than a full-length feature film, and if you need proof, you'll find 84 minutes of it in Reno 911!: Miami.
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