Movie review You may feel robbed by 'Reno 911'
Big screen - The hapless deputies' romp in Miami feels like an expanded TV show
I'll say this for "Reno 911!: Miami": It plays almost exactly like a longer episode of the "Reno 911!" TV show. (But not that much longer: "Miami" clocks in at barely 80 minutes.) If you're a fan of the show, you'll probably be a fan of the movie -- which mostly retains the "SuperTroopers"-meets-"Cops"-by-way-of-Christopher-Guest-only-not-quite-as-funny vibe.
That said, it gets off to a rough start. The first half-hour sends the Reno deputies to Miami Beach for a convention. After a bioterror attack sidelines every other cop in town, our idiot heroes suddenly are protecting a major U.S. city. And the setup simply isn't very funny or sharp. But once that's out of the way and the cast gets back on the beat, the movie finds its middlebrow groove -- helped by Paul Rudd as a poor man's Scarface and Patton Oswalt as the overwhelmed deputy mayor.
By film's end, you've enjoyed a middle-of-the-road episode of the series, basically. And as usual, Deputy Trudy and Lt. Dangle are getting the best lines while about one-third of the jokes hit their marks.
(84 minutes; rated R for sexual content, nudity, crude humor, language and drug use; multiple locations) Grade: B-
-- Mike Russell
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