CHiPS
March. 24,2017 RThe adventures of two California Highway Patrol motorcycle officers as they make their rounds on the freeways of Los Angeles.
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Good concept, poorly executed.
Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay
It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Something got lost on the way to making this movie. Any sense of cohesion, or fun, of comedy. It's really sad because there is a germ of a decent comedy in there somewhere. There are some great to good actors involved: Michael Pena, etc. But there's not much here. Even the motorcycle stunts are just tepid. They could have made an epic motorcycle chase on Angeles Crest Hwy, but they cut it short. Why? There is some tits, some ass, but not much. It's like this movie has no idea what it wants to be. Comedy cop buddy movie, but the buddy stuff is half-assed. Does it want to be sexy comedy, not really, misses way too many chances for that. Why not go all out for a fun comedy? Maybe they did, but just missed really really badly.
There was Starsky & Hutch, The A-Team and more recently Baywatch remakes. Then there was CHPs. Plot poor, story poor, setting the scene poor, acting poor, continual sexual innuendo poor, side story poor....poor poor poor. Stunts okay, supporting cast okay, music okay, direction okay. To sum up, an appauling movie which failed to hit the mark, best to avoid, look for original TV episodes on YouTube, they are better and ultimately funnier.
It is a movie about finding your way in the world when living with undiagnosed aspergers, a.k.a. high functioning autism. In an unilkely turn of events the two main characters are pit together against a group of bad cops, their bully ringleader, and his dope fiend son. While fighting with the comorbidities of autism the two heroes, who are wonderfully portraied by Michael Pena and Dax Shepard, grows in understanding of eachother, their particular illness, and their own path to happiness.Not since the classic Dumb Dumber has there been a deeper, more loving and authentic portrayal of living with autism.
It's really a shame, the film could have been good, but it 100% missed the heart of the original. Much in the same way as the Dukes of Hazard abomination did, it went for cheap 14 year old kid humor and zero of the heart of the original, missing out on all of what made the original characters. There were good ideas, Ponch being FBI, Jon being a former racer, a decent villian, but it was all just wasted. I wish I could forget this movie.