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Name: Dragnet (1987)
Released: 1987-6-26
Cast: Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Dabney Coleman, Christopher Plummer, Harry Morgan

Dragnet (1987)

PG-13
1h 45m
1987

50%

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This is the city... and only Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks can save it in this hilarious box-office blockbuster that pays homage to the famed original police drama of the '50s and '60s. Aykroyd is at his comedic best as the namesake nephew of Detective Sgt. Joe Friday. Like his uncle, he's a blue-suited, by-the-rules cop who reluctantly joins forces with his footloose partner Pep Streebek (Hanks) to rescue the City of Angels from the machinations of a power-mad Reverend and corrupt Police Commissioners. And those are "just the facts" of this hysterically funny action-comedy.

Director:

Tom Mankiewicz

Producer:

David Permut, Robert K. Weiss

Writer:

Dan Aykroyd, Alan Zweibel, Tom Mankiewicz

Cast:

Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Dabney Coleman, Christopher Plummer, Harry Morgan, Alexandra Paul, Jack O'Halloran, Elizabeth Ashley

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

50%

Critics Consensus: While it's sporadically funny and certainly well-cast, Dragnet is too clumsy and inconsistent to honor its classic source material.

Reviews

South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Roger Hurlburt

This movie is for Aykroyd addicts only. Good old badge 714 isn't exactly tarnished it's just lost its flash.

August 19, 2021

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Newhouse News Service

Richard Freedman

This is the only review of it you'll read that resists the temptation to open by quoting the naggingly insistent Dragnet motif of "Dum-de-dum-dum." There's just nothing dumb about this agreeably lightweight spoof.

A deadpan Aykroyd is perfectly cast, and it's always nice to revisit Hanks back when he was loose, limber, and eager-to-please.

...suffers from a palpably plodding feel that's compounded by an continuing emphasis on the central characters' tedious investigation...

August 24, 2018

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United Press International

Cathy Burke

The update carries only a surface resemblance to its television ancestor; the rest is more reminiscent of the comic-book world of Batman, Robin and Superman.

December 12, 2017

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