Reno 911! Miami

Reno 911! Miami **

Directed by Robert Ben Garant
Written by Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant, and Kerri Kenney-Silver, based on the Comedy Central TV Show

Starring:
Thomas Lennon as Lieutenant Jim Dangle
Robert Ben Garant as Deputy Travis Junior
Niecy Nash as Deputy Raineesha Williams
Mary Birdsong as Deputy Cherisha Kimball
Kerri Kenney-Silver as Deputy Trudy Wiegel
Wendi McLendon-Covey as Deputy Clementine Johnson
Carlos Alazraqui as Deputy James Garcia
Cedric Yarbrough as Deputy S. Jones
Paul Rudd as Ethan the Druglord
Kyle Dunnigan as Drug Lord's First Hostage
Marisa Petroro as Drug Lord's Girlfriend
Lennie Loftin as Chief of Police
Danny Devito as District Attorney
David Koechner as Sheriff of Aspen
Patton Oswalt as Jeff Spoder
Nick Swardson as Terry
Michael Ian Black as Ron of Ron's Tattoo
Michael Showalter as Paul

84 Minutes(Rated R for sexual content, nudity, crude humor, language and drug use).
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I'm a little bit at a loss at what to write here. "Reno 911! Miami" isn't the type of film where I can go on for paragraph after paragraph analyzing it or even offering my ideas on it. I actually started to write this multiple times, and was at a constant loss at what to write. So with that being said, this will only be a minute review, and you'll get the idea.

"Reno 911!" is one of those films that came from a TV show that I've never seen. It's not a remake, but it is a big screen version of a comedy show. As it usually is with these types of things, it is clear that this will not be another "Borat" and will just be another fine example of something that is funny for twenty-two minutes but not for ninety. Perhaps for its target audience-the fans of the television show-will get more out of it than I could, but I know that at around sixty minutes, when the plot was basically done with, I was bored and had had enough.

Comedy Central's parody of "Cops" follows a group of eight Reno cops, who follow their Lt. Jim Dangle, who managed to fight his superiors to wear really short shorts that go up above his thigh. The group has been invited to a Police Convention in Miami. The difference between this year and last year is that everyone is invited. And off they go, but once they arrive they learn that there was a misunderstanding with their passes and they can't go in. Sleeping at a small motel, they return the next day to find that every single police officer is in the convention, and there was just a massive toxic chemical released inside, quarantining them. The Reno cops find themselves the only cops in all of Miami, and they begin patrolling the streets and the beaches, before getting involved in a plot involving a drug lord from Colorado and the acting mayor of Miami.

"Reno 911" has it's funny moments, most of them involving various animals. I laughed more at the group's efforts to push a whale down a beach more than anything in a while. There isn't much of a plot to speak of, and whatever plot they threw in happened mostly after the fifty minute mark and was over by the sixty minute mark. But at times it seems padded, and it goes on for much too long even though it's only an hour and twenty minutes. Therefore, I justify my two star rating with the fact that I wasn't supposed to really get anything out of this. I don't watch the series, and this was made for fans of the series. but as an outsider looking it, it has it's moments but it isn't enough to sustain a feature. Told in the same format as "Borat" the camera is in constant motion as someone is filming the group, but there isn't any social commentary in this to make it even remotely intelligent through all the goofiness. I recommend that you stay away unless you've seen the show, or just have nothing better to do.