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2.0
A handful of the jokes are even kind of funny.But bloodshed and dick waggling alone are not enough to carry an effective contemporary update, and give ..
Av Club
1.5
As well as its co star, hes the writer, director, co producer and, unless our eyes are deceiving us, hes had a hand in co ordinating the stunts, too.
Den Of Geek
2.0
The actual action is exciting enough, and Shepards motorcycle chase scenes are a welcome respite of both action and comedy.
EW
0.6
This joke is just a thin excuse for viewers to enjoy the sight of a womans form fitting pants as she straddles an unlikable characters lap and makes o ..
Rogerebert
2.0
You could say that CHIPS has charm, though how in the heck that happened is hard to tell.One way the film could have easily been better
Common Sense Media
2.0
The average Adam Sandler comedy is funnier than the worst Adam Sandler comedy; most mediocre superhero movies are better than Suicide Squad.
Variety
2.5
Alas, the film isnt self aware or smart enough to bring that all together, and instead, audiences are left with a hodgepodge of cliches and cameos tha ..
We Got This Covered
1.5
The investigation is dull, the jokes dispiritingly flat footed, with Ponchs sex addiction and squirminess over male intimacy supplying most of the set ..
Austin Chronicle
1.0
A staggeringly unfunny comedy, the film mines homophobia, accidental decapitation and the objectification of women for lols.
The Guardian
2.0
When placed next to the gleeful postmodernism of the 21 Jump Street films, this feels remarkably timid, its humour built around off colour gags (inclu ..
The Guardian
3.1
Within that underwhelming framework, though, CHIPS can be quite funny in shamelessly stupid ways.
Screen Daily
2.5
The action is decent, but nothing too hardcore.The violence is quite is real and there are some gory, yet darkly funny scenes.
ETimes (TOI)
2.0
But despite all the effort involved, none of the chases or shoot outs delivers any real thrills.
The Hollywood Reporter
0.5
Motorcycle enthusiasts will likely enjoy the well shot, high speed chases, but everything else moves at a crawl.
1.5
A corpulent and clearly embarrassed Vincent DOnofrio slips in and out of the frame as a dirty cop, and the delightful Rosa Salazar, playing a sexily c ..
The New York Times
3.0
CHIPS often tries too hard to be funny, its jokes never rising above the obvious and well telegraphed.
IGN
1.0
Whether you recall the show fondly or have never heard of it, this new movie version is, by any measure, staggeringly feeble.
Telegraph
2.5
You might also wish that Shepard, for all his cheerful indifference to the expectations of TV nostalgists, had done more than simply crank out Dumb & ..
2.0
If youre a CHiPs die had at heart and have been waiting for a feature film for years, this will probably please you just fine.
The Young Folks
1.5
Theres certainly been worse out there, but thats far from a recommendation.
The Young Folks
2.0
Director Dax Shepard forgot to make it either funny or compelling.
2.0
While nothing necessarily innovative or revolutionary is achieved, it is impressively done and deserves recognition.
Cinema Blend
2.5
So Shepard inundates this movie with minor characters (a miscast Vincent OOnofrio plays an officer on the take), subplots and gags some funnier than o ..
Ny Daily News
2.5
More action and less comedy would have made this a film worth watching.
JoBlo
2.0
CHIPS is a generic buddy cop comedy that will leave both longtime fans and newcomers alienated with a weak story and thin characters.
Screen Rant
0.6
CHIPS is a mess of buddy cop cliches, jumbled plotting and harried motorcycle chases bogged down by hyperactive cross cutting and crummy cinematograph ..
The Globe And Mail
3.1
The Spy Who Dumped Me is an action comedy withwell, it has action.
Philly
1.9
But CHIPS has a sourness about it from its graphic violence, and a clunky way with its gags.
Rogers Movie Nation
3.0
10 1 1 / 10 Someone, somewhere gave piles of money to writer/director/star Dax Shepard to make a film version of CHiPs, a late 1970s television show t ..
Blu Ray
2.5
Theres little doubt that The Lego Batman Movie proves that, as one mightve suspected in the wake of The Lego Movie, this incarnation of the Worlds Gre ..
Reel Film Reviews
1.0
Aquarius 18, 146 mins A drama about a free spirited Brazilian widow forced to take stock of her life while developers try to oust her from her seaside ..
The Times
1.0
Hollywood should have quit while it was ahead, though, because CHiPs is the antithesis of a hoot.
The Times
2.0
Thats not what grown ups do when they make real movies for big studios.CHIPS is uneven in that way, veering from scathing humor to patience trying non ..
Eric Ds Nider
1.0
Shepard seems set on giving it the Brady Bunch or 21 Jump Street spoof treatment, but he doesnt have the wit to pull it off.Its just another buddy cop ..
News Review
2.0
Shepard and Pena make solid sparring partners and most of the humour lands where intended, but the script is tainted by a succession of smutty frat ho ..
Radio Times
2.0
As far as can be determined from the rowdy, laugh challenged mess that is writer director star Dax Shepards badges and bikes action comedy, baked in n ..
The Wrap
3.0
What rescues CHIPS from the genre swamp is how the movie playfully subverts its formula.
Film Journal
0.5
All seen and sniggered at, this cheesy cops versus criminal caper doesnt even qualify as a decent diversion.
Hindustan Times
1.5
Did I say fun.No, this isnt fun at all, unless you like your plots full of holes (Adam Brody shows up from time to time as an agent competing with Pon ..
Az Central
1.0
(MA) 101 minutes Taken purely on its own, Chips is a wretched attempt at an action comedy.
Smh
0.0
If kindergartners were let loose to make an action movie, it might look like this.
1.9
Theres not much chance of audience crossover between it and colourful kids 90s superhero franchise Power Rangers.
Toronto Star
1.0
Irredeemably sexist, gratuitously violent, relentlessly unfunny, CHiPs is one of those movies that make you weep for all the fine projects that never ..
Daily Mail
1.0
Michael Pena is a smart and very talented actor who is absolutely wasted in the void of the dull and uncharismatic Dax Shepherd.
Cinema Crazed
3.0
His intimidation creates an intensity that is exciting and makes you crave action, but unfortunately the action of the film hardly satiates the cravin ..
Film Inquiry
1.5
Susan Grangers review of CHiPs (Warner Bros.).This raunchy, lame brained reboot of the NBC TV show begins with the disclaimer: The California Highway ..
Susang Ranger
1.0
Its not fun, its rarely ever exciting, never intelligent, is perfectly content with being as lowbrow as possible, and worst of all seemingly wants to ..
Flickering Myth
3.0
Also, a fresh perspective is what is needed to enjoy the movie, as the fans expectations from the film is probably what let them down.
Book My Show
2.0
Yet Dax Shepards CHiPS is surprisingly personal for what are often merely crass efforts at nostalgic exploitation.
Boston Herald
3.0
However, the films utter stupidity is not without merit, and if its successful, I imagine it could spawn a sequel with deeper character development an ..
The Film Stage
3.1
Rambunctious and insouciant, CHIPS has about as much nutritional cinematic value as the potato variety.
Chicago Tribune
1.0
The motorbike chases are less boring than the dialogue, but they are still scarcely more impressive than those from the original series.The tone is bi ..
The Irish Times
2.0
Its not a great look.And the films raunchy gags including one scene where Ponch is forced to carry a naked Baker into his bathroom feel like warmed ov ..
Detroit News
1.0
Not exactly the worlds most original story, but workable.).Instead, Shepard sets up this idea, plays around with it for about a third of the film, the ..
Vox
1.0
When a film is presented as a comedy, as CHiPS surprisingly is, it requires one quite essential ingredient; humour.
Hey U Guys
2.0
Remember the 21 Jump Street movie That was a blast. The sequel was pretty great too. Chips wants to be a self aware action comedy too, but Chips is no ..
Now Toronto
0.0
Its a nasty exercise in meanness for its own sake, that seems to despise its characters and its own existence, and invites the viewer to do the same.B ..
Film Ink
3.0
And that likely will have hardcore CHiPs fans speeding for the exits.
Tamp A Bay
2.5
Overall though its difficult to get too excited about yet another so so TV adaptation.John Byrne
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
2.0
If you enjoyed the knockabout romp of the far superior 21 Jump Street big screen outing, then you might dig the scattershot fun of a film that jettiso ..
Flicks
3.5
Welcome to CHIPS WorldPopulation: Dax Shepard, Michael Pena, and You Oh my god!.What a stupid, beautiful movie.
The Stranger
1.0
This empty headed romp will only appeal to drunken guys looking for gross out macho escapism.
Contact Music
1.0
CHipS is comedy buddy movie for people that have no friends and dont like laughing.
The Sun
2.0
By halfway the queasy, sophomoric nature of the films comedy overrides any interest in its story.
Matts Movie Reviews
3.1
1 of 8 View Caption This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Michael Pena in a scene from, CHiPS.
Sltrib
1.9
It is one of the very few perfectly written scenes in this mostly disappointing effort.
Chicago Sun Times
3.0
CHiPs is hilarious. Dax Shepard and Michael Pena breathe life into the tired and stale buddy cop genre. I laughed myself silly from start to finish.
Movie Web
1.0
A modestly compelling story might have covered over the movies listless juvenilia and lack of chemistry between its stars.
Cinemix Tape
1.0
But who is this new CHIPS for.It cant be for those looking for CHiPs nostalgia, like me, because the film is neither campy nor fun.
The Ringer
3.0
Its not a programmatic studio comedy, giving us what it thinks audiences want.
Metro New York
1.9
CHiPs are down: Ponch goes raunch in R rated revamp hello Jon Baker (director/writer Dax Shepard), right, and Frank Ponch Poncherello (Michael Pena) j ..
Daily Herald
3.1
The raunchy bromantic comedy CHIPS, with Dax Shepard and Michael Pena, cant help but raise fundamental questions: What is its purpose.Could it have va ..
Mercury News
1.5
Given the movie is merely the latest in a long line of old TV show reboots, laziness seems the more likely contender.
Concrete Play Ground
3.1
CHIPS may still be 90 per cent dick jokes, but at least its trying to do something with those dick jokes.
National Post
1.0
Calling all banter ready units for a bawdy action caper that keeps its hand on the throttle and its eye on the booty.
Sky
3.0
Theres richness to these two performances as well as the tragedy of superb actors trapped in crap.
National Review
1.0
Fans of the show will feel dutifully well served. Those coming to the film cold might feel a little iced out.
Tiny Url
1.0
Tonally, CHIPS lurches far worse when it very briefly attempts the drama stakes.
Trespass Mag
3.0
This is a messy comedy, whether the fluid is blood or burrito sauce.
Toronto Sun
3.0
Well the you knew it was coming Erik Estrada cameo falls flat, the tone is inconsistent, the plot is moronic, and the boy banter is definitely dirty.E ..
Theepoch Times
1.5
Poor writing and an even poorer execution takes the lead in CHIPS; a lazy, vulgar and painfully idiotic buddy cop comedy that is as generic and predic ..
Cairo 360
2.5
As light entertainment goes, CHiPs is fairly accomplished, and Pena and Shepard make a good team.
Sf Chronicle
2.0
CHiPs suffers greatly from a poor script.Action set pieces that would have been impressive forty years ago feel like old hat in this reboot.
Film Ireland
1.5
By the time the end credits roll, its hard to imagine anyone does.Adapted from the 1970s/80s TV series that made Erik Estrada and his voluminous mane ..
News
3.1
Most of the humor is puerile and eye rolling for anyone past fifth grade, but for what it is, it is still pretty funny.
Buffalo News
3.5
Unlike some contrived or cynical rehashes of old TV series, this one has no pretensions. Its escapism with a capital E: a funny, energetic, enjoyably ..
Leonard Mal
3.0
But CHIPS isnt nasty enough to qualify as enjoyably misanthropic, and it doesnt humanise its characters enough to make you care about them.Instead it ..
Junkee
2.0
Movies are neither good nor bad because of how much sound and fury they throw at the audience.
All Movie
1.5
Shepards real life wife Kristen Bell plays his ex here, someone hes still pining after even though shes clearly not worth it.
Ign
1.5
In fact, its as easy as writing the threadbare script mustve been.With little more to the story beyond the basic premise, all thats offered to bulk up ..
Screen Hub
1.0
An R rated CHIPS might have worked if the screenplay had been more sophisticated and the jokes funnier.
Perth Now
3.8
A vulgar but funny enough departure from the classic TV series to warrant recommending.
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