Car 54, Where Are You?

1994 "An arresting comedy."
2.5| 1h29m| PG-13| en
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Brash NYC policeman Officer Gunther Toody is partnered with stiff, by-the-book Officer Francis Muldoon to protect an important mafia witness prior to testifying against orgainzed crime in Brooklyn, all the while dealing with their personal lives, overbearing spouses, common criminals, arms dealers, and their officious boss Captain Anderson.

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Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.
StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
Duncan Burden This Is Awful, The Lowest Form Of Entertainment! I Don't Know How There May Be People Who Would Enjoy This Stupid Movie! Plot: There's Not Even A Plot, It's Just 2 Stupid Cops Protecting Something About The Mafia, That Won't Even Pass For A Student Film Project! Execution: Don't Get Me Started, It's WAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CHIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLDIIIISSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHH Especially For A PG-13 Film! Overall: Thank God This Bombed At The Box Office And It's At The Bottom 100 Or Else I Would've Gone Mad! If You Ever Come Across This Movie At a Thrift Store, Netflix, Etc, I Encourage You To Not Watch It, I Want To Save You 2 Hours Of Your Life By Not Watching This Slap In The Face!
Anders Twetman This is not, a film, it might be feature length, but it i not a film. What it is, is an episode of a goofy cop show on TV. The kind that you would watch when there is nothing else on at three o'clock in the morning. I sat through the whole thing waiting for the canned laughter and fake audience reactions (*couple on screen kiss* Audiaence: "Wooooooooo"). Everything is done to that low budget TV show standard with fake looking sets, over the top acting an a weird style that mixes New York of the 60's with 90's technology and jokes. The story feels taken from a TV show too; you have the uptight, by the book cop partnering up with the lazy bum cop and this odd couple has to take down the mafia boss - hilarity ensues. Or at least that must have been the idea behind this crap. However, the story and characters feel outdated an all the jokes are far less funny than envisioned. The original was a cop show from the 60's and as far as I am concerned it should have ended with that.
hardwood53 Sight gags galore, rapid fire jokes and ridiculous situations. It has an almost all star comedy cast, with many old favorites. Sure its formulaic, juvenile, and a little cheesy, but so was the original. I have read many of the reviews written by those who were unable to turn their brains off and just enjoy. I would just like to say lighten up. It can't all be Shakespeare. Who would want that anyway? So here it is pure fun without graphic violence, dozens of cuss words, nudity, or heavy sexual situations. In other words, something good to watch with the kids. I won't call it a completely child safe movie, but it is close.
wulicoyote The old t.v. show had its undeniable quirky charm. this should be self evident, otherwise a 2 season sitcom from 1961-63 would have been long forgotten, and no studio would have thrown a 1990's budget at so weak a concept as to make a movie of an obscure t.v. relic. But the people behind the film had no concept of what made this show stick in peoples' craw, and that was the ridiculous innocence and banality of the crimes that mediocre good guys Toody, Muldoon, etc. encountered and dealt with in the big, bad city of New York on an episode by episode basis. Making Muldoon a crusader, rather than an equally bumbling ineffectual creature like Gunther Toody obliterates the charm of the sitcom. The whole idea of anyone from the squad actually approaching a ":real" or "serious" crime kills the whole premise of "Car 54 Where are You?" This is a relic of a sheltered and surreally unrealistic time, and this attempt to have one foot in this world and another in the semi post-repression non reality of contemporary aesthetics just doesn't cut it. Besides that, this is a bad mess of a movie on all standards.