Not nearly as bad as its critical reception suggested.
Comment
06/30/08
Cops & Robbersons (1994)
17 %
Reviews Counted: 18 Fresh: 3 Rotten:15 Average Rating: 3.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Synopsis: Director Michael Ritchie teams up once again with FLETCH star Chevy Chase for this lighthearted comedy about a police officer who gets in over his head after he's forced to move in with a suburban family. When tough veteran cop Jake Stone (Jack Palance) and his rookie partner, Tony Moore (David... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Chevy Chase, Jack Palance, Dianne Wiest, Robert Davi, David Barry Gray
Director: Michael Ritchie
Reviews
1 - 18 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Trapped in a sitcom sensibility, the film never makes the vital connection with the audience that's necessary to spawn a hit.
06/30/08
Top Critic
Chevy Chase returns to the anonymous, unmemorable suburban mode that made his earlier movies profitable. And guess what? The results are anonymous and unmemorable.
06/30/08
In Cops and Robbersons, Chevy Chase has an unfortunate chance to prove that there's something even more unfunny than his disastrous talk show.
05/20/03
Top Critic
You can guess the rest -- but you'll never guess just how amazingly bad it all is.
01/01/00
Chase cakewalks through the same role he's been playing for the past 10 or so years.
01/01/00
Chevy Chase is lucky Cops and Robbersons isn't a sitcom. If it were, it would be canceled as pronto as his talk show was.
01/01/00
Top Critic
Chase, as I've already noted, is stuck with a character who goes nowhere, dooming him from the start.
01/01/00
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