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Dragnet

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Dragnet (1987)

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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... 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 hipster Pep Streebek for a partner, that's not so easy. When the mismatched twosome try to crack a case involving a crazed TV evangelist and a slimy porn mogul, law and disorder is the name of the game. [More]

Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Harry Morgan, Christopher Plummer

Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Harry Morgan, Christopher Plummer, Dabney Coleman, Elizabeth Ashley, Alexandra Paul

Director: Tom Mankiewicz

Director: Tom Mankiewicz
Screenwriter: David Ackroyd, Alan Zweibel, Tom Mankiewicz

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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
Kim Newman
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Deservedly a critical and box-office fiasco.

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Entertaining enough, but a pity they didn't draft in more of the Eisenhower context.

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01/26/06
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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
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More innocuous than inventive.

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Most of the time it's fresh, funny, and surprising.

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05/20/08
Pat Graham
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Annoying comedy.

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05/24/06
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
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07/29/05
Chuck O'Leary
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12/01/04
Mike McGranaghan
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10/04/04
Jeffrey Westhoff
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Strident pop-culture revisionism.

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06/22/04
Leo Goldsmith
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03/11/04
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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A comedy classic, Hanks and Aykroyd are great

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03/04/04
Clint Morris
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08/20/03
Nell Minow
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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).

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05/20/03
Vincent Canby
New York Times
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