CHiPs
Directed by:
Dax ShepardScreenplay:
Dax ShepardCinematography:
Mitchell AmundsenComposer:
Fil EislerCast:
Michael Peña, Dax Shepard, Jessica McNamee, Ryan Hansen, Rosa Salazar, Kristen Bell, Vincent D'Onofrio, Adam Brody, Justin Chatwin, Maya Rudolph (more)Plots(1)
Jon Baker (Dax Shepard) and Frank "Ponch" Poncherello (Michael Peña) have joined the California Highway Patrol for very different reasons. Baker, the rookie, is a beaten-up pro motor-biker trying to save his marriage. Pouch, a tough cop with a weakness for women in yoga pants, is an undercover FBI agent investigating heists that may be inside jobs. With Jon's bike skills joined with Pouch's street savvy, this mismatched pair might just work... if they don't drive each other crazy first. (Roadshow Entertainment)
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Michael Peña and Dax Shepard are brutally overacting here. They are playing at the classic buddy cop action comedy which hasn’t really been here for a long time. But the problem is that even though the technical aspect of the action scenes is spot on, the relationship of the two idiots really didn’t work here. Michael portrays an idiot; Dax portrays an idiot. Michael is at least a tiny bit funny but when they are together it simply doesn’t work.
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A pretty okay action comedy with a funny Michael Peña and a weird Dax Shepard that didn't sit well with me. The movie goes by fast, it's funny, but the jokes were a bit too few for my taste. 55%
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I like buddy movies, but with this one, I felt that the buddy element doesn't really work and that the characters are somewhat forcibly thrust into it, relying only on clichés, occasionally seasoned with quite harsh injuries that help the film along. Sometimes it's funny, sometimes not at all. And the story is one big cliché.
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