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Reno 911!: Miami
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation


5.1

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FILM:

Balls of Fury

MPAA RATING: R for sexual content, nudity, crude humor, language and drug use

Starring Ben Garant, Thomas Lennon, Kerri Kenney, Niecy Nash, Mary Birdsong, Cedric Yarbrough, and Danny DeVito

While visiting Miami Beach for a national police convention, the bumbling cops of Comedy Central's "Reno 911!" must leap into action when the convention center is attacked by bioterrorists.

GENRE(S):	Comedy
WRITTEN BY:	Ben Garant (also TV series) Thomas Lennon (also TV series) Kerri Kenney (also TV series)
DIRECTED BY:	Ben Garant
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: June 19, 2007 Theatrical: February 23, 2007
RUNNING TIME:	84 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

Chicago Tribune Michael Esposito

This is not high art. It might not qualify as low art. But it is 90 minutes or so during which people can put their brains on the shelf and enjoy a few laughs.

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

This low-rent, nonsense cop business filled me with a nostalgic twinge. I didn't know I wanted the "Police Academy" series resurrected with a lot more hilarity, but I'm glad somebody did it.

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

Reno 911's anti-heroes are doomed, deluded losers, but they engender a strange sympathy all the same.

Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar

Whatever the final analysis, Reno 911!: Miami is a welcome breath of fresh air in a year that's already forced audiences to endure the likes of "Norbit."

Entertainment Weekly Scott Brown

The characters are perfectly evolved screwups and the premise has potential. It lacks only the discipline of a 30-minute episode -- or a YouTube video.

Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell

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.

New York Post Kyle Smith

The gags vary - a tattooed-breast mystery kinda sags - but there are lots of laughs.

TV Guide Ken Fox

The film's longer running time means more dead spots and the more elaborate stunts demand tighter scripting and less room to improvise, which is a shame since improvisation is the Reno's gang real strength. Forgiving fans, however, won't care a whit.

Los Angeles Times Alex Chun

Often mildly amusing but rarely laugh-out-loud funny, the film works best in scenes with a distinct Miami flavor.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

It probably cost less than the catering budget of average Adam Sandler comedy and, in its own hit-and-miss scattershot fashion, it's about as funny. At least when it hits.

Washington Post Dan Zak

Moviedom is littered with the wreckage of ill-conceived small-to-big-screen adaptations, but Reno 911!: Miami is not the disaster it could have been. Fans of the TV show need not shudder. You will not see sacrilege.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

Recommended only for die-hard fans of the TV show. Others are advised to wait until this is available in a smaller format.

The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen

While several members of the cast valiantly fill the void where they can, these fish out of water could have made a greater high-definition splash if they had been thrown an occasional line or two rather than counting on inspiration to wash over them.

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

Come to think of it, 84 minutes isn't much of a sacrifice for a few laughs, even if the material is almost as hit-or-miss as our heroes' shooting skills.

San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub

The humor is lowbrow, but the screenwriters and performers have a sense of pride that makes them strive for stupid jokes that haven't been done before.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jason Anderson

About 45 minutes worth of funny stuff awkwardly stretched to 84 minutes.

The New York Times Manohla Dargis

What feels amusingly anarchic on the small screen feels underdeveloped and disjointed on the big screen, perhaps because instead of commercials gluing the jokes together there’s dead air.

Variety Brian Lowry

All of which goes to demonstrate that while it's easy enough to slap a colon on a lowbrow cable TV show, additional punctuation by itself isn't sufficient to actually transform it into a movie.

Village Voice Brian Miller

The TV show excels with its short squad-car bursts of random inanity; here, the plot -- stretched out to 84 minutes -- feels like a dime bag tossed aside by a fleeing perp.

Austin Chronicle Marrit Ingman

The filmmakers assume familiarity with the show's documentary premise and in-jokes (e.g., deputy Garant giving all his commands in French), which will make the movie even less accessible to novices.

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

This is mostly a listless hodgepodge of half-improvised whatever, the seven lead characters so flatly conceived they're like the Keystone Kops (without the chops).

Empire Kim Newman

Very, very low-brow.

The average user rating for this movie is 5.1 (out of 10) based on 31 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Thomas M. gave it a7:
Fans of the show won't be disappointed. People new to Reno 911 should brace themselves for improvisation and satire next to the more conventional humor shown in trailers. DVD extras include extended segments where the actors are allowed to just keep inventing punchlines -- great stuff.

Paul OOOOOO gave it a6:
I thought it was funny for the most part, but did seem to drag and it could have been a lot better.

PnArdy PnArdy gave it a2:
Absolutely dumb comedy with a Russian topless model in one episode. That's why I give it 2 instead of 0.

ALan L. gave it a0:
I did not laugh one bit the trailer looked quite funny however...this was not...Seriously this is the worst movie ive seen this year and i have seen some seriously stinkers.

Robert gave it a3:
Was surprised at just how uninspired this movie is... really just an overly long but average episode of the TV series. The TV show is mildly amusing but this does not take it to another level at all, except 3 times the mediocre-ness. Pretty pointless, I'm disappointed. Surprised that they even bothered to release this in theatres.

Bil B gave it an8:
Reno 911 did what it was made to do. Make people laugh. I laughed my butt off.

Jordan A. gave it a0:
This movie was terrible. I thought it was going to be really funny. It was pathetic, only a few scenes were funny, but the rest? Just utterly pathetic. Don't waste your time watching this.

Reno 911!: Miami Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Reno 911!: Miami
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation