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Yup. Nothing says CHiPs in the hearts of the millions who fondly remember it quite like dick jokes and heroes who are destructive fools.
shareIt makes me wonder did they ever actually watch the show? Ponch & Jon were sometimes silly, but basically two good-hearted, likable guys doing a tough job. This makes them look like idiots. Did they learn nothing from the horrible Starsky & Hutch reboot?
shareYeah, that trailer looks HORRIBLE. As has been said, Jon and Ponch were occasionally silly (mostly Ponch since Jon was the straight man), but they were professional grown-ups who did their jobs well. They were NOT oblivious, destructive yahoos who blithely blew through traffic knocking commuters' mirrors off their cars and blowing stuff up!
Of course, as the trailer makes clear, Pena isn't REALLY a CHiPs officer, he's an FBI agent posing as one, and Jon is a rookie so I guess he's still learning the ropes - but that doesn't excuse anything. No real CHiPs officer would be able to get away with hotdogging on the freeway even once - it would be turn in your badge and go find something else to do.
I'm sure the real CHiPs are just thrilled at being portrayed as frat boy idiots who don't even do a serious job. This movie might do for that profession what Top Gun did for the Navy: encourage a bunch of showoffy idiots to apply because they think it's a super-fun job where all they do is gun around the LA freeways all day picking up chicks and drinking beer.
WB better not get their hands on "Emergency!" or I'm going to have to hurt someone!
Yeah, this looks really awful. Baywatch looks far better and that's saying something because that doesn't look great either.
shareWB better not get their hands on "Emergency!" or I'm going to have to hurt someone!
You and me both. I loved that show.
WE GOT MOVIE SIIIIIGN! share
Universal owns Emergency.
But you're right - let's hope if Emergency's made into a feature film Universal won't mess it up like Warner Bros. (who now owns the title CHIPS by virtue of their 1998 purchase of Turner Entertainment Co.) did with CHIPS.
I saw the trailer, too. Awful is too lenient a term to describe it. More like disgusting turns the trick.
Oh, I suspect that it is worse than that. Based on the trailer, this Ponch is going undercover to catch corrupt CHP officers. Not only are they turning the two main characters into buffoons, but they are turning the CHP's into corrupt officers. Thus, they are furthering the attack on law enforcement in this country. The original TV series was actually pretty respectful toward the CHiPs. This one pretty obviously will not be. Based on this trailer, I don't think that I would want to watch this movie even if I could get it free.
shareTrue that! The original series probably inspired more than a few kids to go into law enforcement when they grew up. Sure, the job probably didn't turn out to be as exciting as it did on the series, and plenty of police forces are indeed rife with corruption (frankly the institution always has been susceptible), but the TV series at least dared to stand behind some ideals. The movie certainly doesn't appear to be doing anything to offset the negative image a lot of police institutions do have these days. Or maybe the filmmakers think having goofball frat boy "good" cops take down the "bad" cops will somehow inspire the millennial generation? Seems unlikely, but maybe future trailers will shed more light.
sharehe's way to old to be a rookie , this looks horrible .
shareThey don't care about the show. All they care about is having a "property" they can make another crappy movie around that only appeals to teenage boys(and those who still think like teenage boys) because that's where the money is.
shareand don't forget dukes of hazzard, main characters were cool back then now they are idiots played by idiots, oh and it is rated R, my guess is alot of toilet humor, penis jokes and vulgarity.