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.
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05/20/08
Dragnet (1987)
48 %
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Reviews Counted: 29
Fresh: 14
Rotten:15
Average Rating: 5/10
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 -- with an emphasis on order. But with wacky... [More]
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Harry Morgan, Christopher Plummer
Director: Tom Mankiewicz
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Top Critic Entertaining enough, but a pity they didn't draft in more of the Eisenhower context.
01/26/06
Top Critic 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.
05/20/08
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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).
05/20/03
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