My friend Dan and I waited at the top of the Gallery Place metro station in Chinatown, DC for about 20 minutes in the freezing cold. All of sudden, Lt. Jim Dangle (played by Thomas Lennon), Deputy Raineesha Williams and Deputy Travis Junior emerged from the escalator in full character. Yes, Jim Dangle was wearing his daisy duke shorts. They all walked off the escalator being bombarded by people on their way to the movie theatre. Keep in mind that this was all set up. It did not happen just randomly. After they made their way into the theatre, my friend Dan and I found our seats and the three characters came up and introduced the movie. I personally thought their introduction was not funny at all. Deputy Raineesha started reciting poetry using 50 cent's "In Da Club" lyrics. At this point, I was just waiting for the movie to start and hoping it would be funny. The trailers actually gave me medium hopes that it would be a half-way decent comedy.

The Story: Reno 911!: Miami is based off of the popular Comedy Central series that has been airing for years. I personally have only seen a few episodes. It never really caught my interest. The show would make me laugh every once in a while, but it was nothing to write home about. Comedy Central had the idea to go ahead and make full length movie out of it, which ended up being only around an hour and 20 minutes long. It actually felt WAY longer than that, which is usually a bad thing.

The plot line to the flick is very simple. All of the police departments are invited to a conference in Miami. When the Reno Sheriff's department arrives in Miami, they try to check in at the hotel and pick up their credentials. Shocker, their credentials are missing, so they have to find their own hotel to sleep in.

Just in case you do not watch the show, "Reno 911" is basically a comedy rip-off of "Cops," where they get called to a crime scene to bust the bad-guys. Since it is a comedy rip-off, the crime scenes are staged and the cops are ridiculously stupid and reckless. The lieutenant actually has extremely gay tendencies and he is always hitting on his deputies and wearing tight pink shirts.

After they stay the night in their cheap and crappy motel, they arrive back to the conference in the morning to learn that every police officer inside the conference building has been infected with a poison. The entire building is quarantined and no one is allowed in or out. This leaves the city of Miami with no law enforcement. The only cops in the town are the dumb and reckless Reno Sheriff's department. Shocker, they have to travel the city and fight crime, while looking for the person responsible for poisoning all of the other officers.

The Review: Overall, this movie was just garbage. All of the jokes were completely predictable. There is nothing worse than seeing a comedy and you know every joke before it even comes on the screen. The movie had maybe one or two memorable comedy scenes, but other than those, the rest of the movie was just

a complete waste of time.

One of the funnier moments in the film was Paul Rudd's performance. We all know him from Anchorman (he played Brian Fantana-famous for the sex panther scene) and The 40-Year Old Virgin, which are two classic comedies by my standards. You can not even compare the comedy levels of those two movies to Reno 911!: Miami. I will say that seeing that dude run around in those shorts in almost freezing whether was actually pretty funny. You also get a pretty funny cameo by The Rock, but it is still a terrible movie.

The Verdict: This is one of those movies where most of the remotely funny parts are in the trailers, i.e. the scene where the guy sticks his head into the whale's body. Please stay away from this movie. It is not worth a red cent of your money. I would only watch the film on cable if you have time, hence the 1 BDK rating.

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