Clevercell Very disappointing...

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

hellraiser7 Parodies are my favorite genre in comedy because it's not just about turning something familiar upside down but also it contains creative freedom where just about anything can happen. This is another childhood relic of mine, I remember seeing this show when I was about 8. Despite how short the show really was it really left an impression on me, it was the first parody comedy I've ever seen and if it wasn't for this show I wouldn't of gotten into the Naked Gun films.The show really was one of the parodies that really helped pave the way for the many other parody shows like the Adult Swim shows "Childrens Hospital", "Eagleheart", "Robot Chicken" as well as the underrated "Garth Melagei's Darkplace" and "The Spoils of Babalyon".There really isn't a lot I can say for this show, it's basically a parody on all the cop and detective shows from long ago to the late seventies. I love the theme song it's one of my favorite themes because it's just fun and just spews cop action.Each episode is just great all of them are rich in both visual and verbal humor, they cleverly make fun of all of the clichés in the usual shows and turn most of them on their head. It would honestly take more than one watch to get them all but their there.Like the beginning it always advertises a special guest for each episode but then seconds later they die from one reason or another. It's funny because sometimes that happens whenever guests are on a TV episode, they'd either get killed off or forgotten the next day. Or even at the end of each episode everyone is on pause except for the suspect whom is still moving and is both escaping and steeling things while everyone is in that mode, I can't help but crack up because it really breaks the convention of everyone on pause.But of course what really powers this show is the late great Lesile Nelsen. This guy is one of the king actors of parodies along side with Mel Brooks since both have acted in more than one of them. Frank Drebin is my favorite role from him. It's just hilarious how much he plays it straight despite so much craziness going on around him and he of course contributes to it. From his deadpan delivery, it's hard for me to keep a straight face because in most of those shows back then all cop characters always delivered dialog in a rather fast strange manner most notably "Dragnet". But what also makes Frank stick out is the fact is in his unorthodox and absurd methods of dealing with things, or just plain clumsiness or stupidity. For example in a shoot out scene in an episode one crook uses a civilian as a human shield, but then Frank then does the same thing. I find it blackly funny because it's not something you'd expect to happen.The only bad thing about the show is simply that it was too short, it would of been cool to see it have the long haul treatment, I would of liked to see what more trouble Frank Drebin gets into. Yeah, I know we have the "Naked Gun" films but still it's just not quite the same; but oh well.Overall, if your a fan of the parody genre then this show is worth checking out, it's arresting hilarity.Rating: 4 stars

kosmasp And if you liked the movies, then you will love the TV show too. I'm actually pretty confused why this didn't work back then. I really loved the humor, the sight gags, the running gags (Cigarette?) and everything else or in between. Leslie Nielsen and everyone else are playing it not as if they were in a comedy, but as if they actually were serious and meant what they were doing.It's a high art to have a good comedy timing, that's why serious actors can make the best comedians. Leslie Nielsen tries to explain why he thinks the show didn't work on the DVD. There are also some other interesting special features that are worth your while. I haven't listened to the Audio Commentary yet, but you do wish the Zucker Brothers would come back and save us from the flood of unfunny spoof "comedies"!

The_Movie_Cat Watching Police Squad! again it's a staggering reminder that Leslie Neilson was once actually funny. After spending most of the 90s and the new millennium challenging Steve Martin for the title of "smug, unfunny grey-haired guy of the year" and appearing in dire spoofs with no real wit, this is a real eye opener.The Neilson that appears in these episodes isn't a self-conscious and self-amused comic actor repeating his own schtick for the payday, it's a genuinely inspired send up of stiff TV detectives. Note that when the franchise got resurrected for the lacklustre Naked Gun movies Drebin became stupider and Neilson more of a self-parody rather than a parody of cop show leads.As well as Neilson then there's also the superb co-stars, and great sight gags that never get old, like the difference in the episode titles from narration to on screen. However, while it's always been regarded as a major error on the part of the studio to cancel the show after four episodes, I wonder if this is actually the case? Watching the fifth and sixth, initially unscreened, episodes, then it's clear the well is running dry already. The final episode in particular is the weakest of the run, and the over-reliance on surrealism breaks up the narrative. Suddenly it's no longer a silly-yet-funny send up of Dragnet and M Squad and rather just a linked together series of extreme sight gags. Even the nature of the show itself means that the scope for the series is inherently limited. Still, funny while it lasted... particularly those first four.

MCL1150 I still count "Police Squad!" as the absolute funniest TV show of the 1980s. Somewhere, on BetaMax no less, I have all six episodes. I knew that a show this good wouldn't last and that I had to preserve it for myself. How stupid was ABC? They were quoted as saying that viewers didn't know that "Police Squad!" was a comedy because it had no laugh track! Right! When Drebin has a line like "You take chances just getting up in the morning, driving to work, or sticking your face in a fan.", how can THAT be comedy!?!? I've seen every episode at least ten times and still see something new I missed before. Even the deep backgrounds always have gags ongoing. Don't miss it if you have chance to see an episode, but if you're reading this then you probably already have copies squirreled away someplace as I do.