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Reno 911!: Miami
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Directed by: Ben Garant
- Starring: Thomas Lennon, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Niecy Nash, Ben Garant, Kerri Kenney-Silver
- Release Date: 29 April 2007
This adolescent rehash of old Police Academy and Naked Gun movies is a criminal waste of everyone's time.d
Lt. Jim Dangle (Lennon) and his team of cack-handed police officers are simple folk, employed by the state of Nevada to keep the streets of Reno safe. They're stereotypically bored American cops, cracking down on doughnuts harder than they do crime, so when an invitation to a police convention in Miami arrives, they quickly pack their bags and head for the sunshine state. The team only go for two days of playing but, inevitably, end up staying (thanks, Will) when a virus released in the convention centre infects the entire Miami police department, leaving the Reno cops (who were outside of the quarantine zone) to patrol the streets of the city on their own. I can only wish hilarity had ensued.
As a cop show parody Reno 911!: Miami has all the amateurish joy of the Police Academy movies. Unfortunately it's also as unforgivably bad as the Police Academy movies. In their attempts to better the Naked Gun films writers Garant, Kenney-Silver and Lennon have substituted the crass wit of that franchise for an idiotic parade of wanking jokes, bad slapstick and endless random acts of tit flashery.
Memories of the odd entertaining moment (a stupid but fun cameo from The Rock as an inept supercop for instance) are quickly obscured by the fog of clichés that the film lingers in, worse of all being Lt. Dangle's penchant for tight shorts, blond highlights and soup-strainer facial hair ("hey Ma. I think them there movie people are trynna tell us something. Hyuk Hyuk").
At least the cast looked liked they were having fun, because as a lame, adolescent re-hash of other (moderately) better cop spoofs Reno 911!: Miami is a criminal waste of everybody else's time.
Henry Barnes
