Deservedly a critical and box-office fiasco.
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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
Reviews for Dragnet
Top CriticEntertaining enough, but a pity they didn't draft in more of the Eisenhower context.
01/26/06
Top CriticAykroyd’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
Top CriticNo review available.
07/29/05
The script is a gold mine of one-liners.
01/01/00
"the interplay of Aykroyd and Hanks makes it worthwhile"
07/29/02
No review available.
06/01/05
Strident pop-culture revisionism.
06/22/04
Quite a fun take-off of a boring TV show.
08/30/02
No review available.
12/01/04
Most of the time it's fresh, funny, and surprising.
05/20/08
Yes, it is lowbrow and sophomoric. What you'd call dumb-de-dumb-dumb fun.
01/01/00
It's fun a lot of the time. Several individual shots are hilarious.
01/01/00
Top CriticBarely recommendable buddy-cop schtick-fest.
07/27/02
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
Top CriticIt 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
Top CriticNo review available.
03/30/05
No review available.
06/25/05
No review available.
10/04/04
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