A rag-tag team of Reno cops are called in to save the day after a terrorist attack disrupts a national police convention in Miami Beach during spring break. Based on the Comedy Central series.
Broken up into four episodes of the television show, who knows, this might be a masterpiece. Seen at one sitting, it falls well short of that. Not for lack of trying. More for trying a little too hard.
– Bill Goodykoontz,
Arizona Republic,
24 Feb 2007
fresh:
It will grow on you like a fungus, my friend, and you will laugh more than once.
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
28 Feb 2007
fresh:
The characters are perfectly evolved screwups and the premise (every legit cop is quarantined at a police convention, leaving our heroes in charge of Miami) has potential. It lacks only the discipline of a 30-minute episode.
– Scott Brown,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Feb 2007
rotten:
Handcuffed by an annoyingly contrived plot that keeps its zanier non sequitur TV giggles in lockdown.
– Melissa Anderson,
Time Out New York,
3 Mar 2007
rotten:
A veritA (C) riff on the a~Police Academya(TM) series is the idea behind cult US sitcom a~Reno 911!a(TM), which, here, is stretched to breaking point for this puerile punt at cinematic glory.