Dragnet | | Cast : | Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks | | Director : | Tom Mankiewicz | | Studio : | Universal Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Widescreen | | Released Date : | June 26, 1987 | | DVD Released Date : | September 02, 2003 | | Language : | French (Dubbed), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 17, 2005 | | Summary | Greatest movie of 1987!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Content
 | This movie is combination comedy and drama. This one has Emil Muzz (Jack O' Halloran), a man who works for Jerry Ceaser (Dabney Coleman), a porno lord who lost some magazines in a warehouse fire set by Muzz, disguising himself as the Fire Chief of Los Angeles City. Muzz insists that he is a P.A.G.A.N. (Person Against Goodness and Normalcy). But, Joe Friday (Dan Aykroyd) finds out that Emil works for Jerry Ceaser. Pep Streeback (Tom Hanks) is his new partner. Bill Gannon (Harry Morgan) is their Captain. Harry Morgan played on the original Dragent series. The evil Johnatan Whirley (Christopher Plummer) is crazy. I would reccomend this to anyone. |
| Rating | | | Date | December 11, 2004 | | Summary | Only Average - Episodes Of The Classic TV Show Are Better | Content
| No need to spend your life watching average movies. If you like classic Dragnet, better to spend your time locating episodes of the classic TV show which are excellent. |
| Rating | | | Date | September 21, 2004 | | Summary | dumb, da dumb dumb... | Content
| ...but I still give it 3 stars 'cuz Dan Ackroyd's riffing is freaking hilarious, and that alone is worth checking out at least once. I can't defend the storyline 'cuz it IS pretty dumb, but I guess that's beside the point...it's all about the laughs, and Ackroyd & Hanks deliver for the most part... |
| Rating | | | Date | September 05, 2004 | | Summary | DA DA DA DA DUM!!!! | Content
| I LOVE THIS MOVIE THIS MOVIE IS PAINFULLY FUNNY. I LOVE IT TO PIECES . I JUST LOVE THIS MOVIE IS A MUST HAVE. I LIKED THE WHOLE MOVIE FROM BEGINNING TO END. I LOVE TOM HANKS (PEP) DAN A.(FRIDAY) THEY ARE BOTH FUNNY . DABNEY COLEMAN IS EVEN FUNNY IN THIS MOVIE I LOVE IT I LAUGH SO MUCH WHENEVER I WATCH THIS I START TO CRY. I WOULD RECOMMEND THIS TO ANYONE WHO LIKES CLASSIC TOM HANKS MOVIES IT IS A MUST HAVE. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 10, 2004 | | Summary | What's wrong with goodness and normalcy? | Content
| Based on what I've seen, most classic TV show-based flicks are either pretty good (such as `The Fugitive' or `The Untouchables'), or pretty bad (`Car 54 Where Are You?'). `Dragnet' has the distinction of trodding the middle ground-- it ain't all that bad, but it's nothing special, either. While I thought the concept of turning the classic `Dragnet' show into a cinematic self-satire was interesting, the final product could've been a bit better. Actually, they'da really gotten some laughs from me by trying to play it `straight' and as true to the TV show as possible. That's probably why episodes of `Dragnet' were only a half-hour long--it was actually a sit-com disguised as a harrowing real-case-based cop drama. I mean, seriously, do ya really think you'll ever find a law enforcement official who's even close to being the straight-laced boy scout that Joe Friday was? I gotta admit, however, that Dan Aykroyd's unbelievably button-down, anal-retentive, and ludicrously straight-arrow portrayal of the nephew of Joe Friday was a pretty good shot at Jack Webb's most notable small screen character. And his partnering up with Tom Hanks' polar-opposite-type character made for a few smile-cracking `Odd-Couple-With-Badges' moments of humor. Another neat thing about this movie is that it introduced me to a little acronym I like to spring on folks from time to time: the cultish PAGAN, or People Against Goodness And Normalcy, the minions of which act as the movie's main heavies. Whenever someone talks about pagan religious rituals, I'll usually hit `em with the reference by stating, "Oh, you mean `the People Against Goodness And Normalcy'?" My statement is usually followed by about ten seconds of uncomfortable silence and sideways glance(s) from the speaker(s). That's when I try to break up my little faux pas by explaining the reference to `em. After my explanation, we share one of those hearty `boy-am-I-relieved' chuckles and part ways, never to speak to each other ever again... `Late |
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