Cop and a Half

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When Burt Reynolds made his welcome comeback in Boogie Nights, he was doing his best to distance himself from the painful memory of movies like this unbearable 1993 comedy, which is almost saved by its generic good nature. Reynolds plays a seasoned cop teamed with an 8-year-old kid who dreams of someday wearing a real detective's badge. The movie takes place in Tampa, Florida, where little Devon Butler (Norman D. Golden II) witnesses a crime and is questioned by police for details. He'll tell what he knows, but only if he's allowed to be a cop for a while. The kid-hating Reynolds ends up the kid's reluctant partner. It's all done as a lark, of course, but the kid turns out to be a pretty good crime-fighter, and Reynolds comes to care for him when things get rough on their latest case. This ridiculous premise is every bit as contrived as it sounds. If you don't buy into it, Cop and a Half is about as enjoyable as a bout of influenza. If you can go with the flow, however (and that takes some effort), you may find yourself enjoying the chemistry between Reynolds and his half-pint partner. Director Henry Winkler makes it clear that it's all in the spirit of good, clean (and painfully formulaic) fun. Some will call it "cute," so let's not spoil their fun by suggesting otherwise. --Jeff Shannon

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i loved it!.......2007-08-06

I got this movie for christmas years ago and watched it time and time again. I loved it! Its cute and funny. All around great family movie.

A Missable Reynolds Movie.......2007-04-02

Cop & A Half was one of the movie that continued the descent of Burt Reynolds' film career.

This falls under "the hard action crowd has deserted me so let me make a cute kid and a copy" movie. But even though Reynolds knows how to be charming, and the kid has the requisite cute factor, the movie is not watchable or enjoyable on any level.

Fortunately, Reynolds has made, and hopefully will in the future, make enough films that will help to blunt the impact of this stinker from moviegoers' minds.

Classic Kids Film.......2007-03-09

I remember watching this movie when it 1st came out in theaters. It was a good movie then and it's a good movie now:) I had my kids watch Cop and a Half for the 1st time last year and it's mega favorite of theirs as well:) love it love it love it!

poor burt.......2006-06-12

poor burt reynolds just couldn't catch a break when this one was cooked up. it really is just sad to see the once mighty burt taking any job to make money! this tale of an 8 year old who sees a murder and uses this to get to ride with a real cop,burt(looking very unhappy and a little tired)is the man the boy gets. then they both set out to stop the killer. sound silly, you bet and not very funny. the pits

A film and a half!.......2006-05-29

You have to question the judgement of reviewers such as Brooke 276 and Russell A Shiley who have given negative reviews to this classic piece of movie history. Perhaps they thought they were being funny giving negative reviews to an obviously excellent film? If the front cover, in which a small child is forcing the always excellent Burt Reynolds to wear some handcuffs as an amusing pair of comedy spectacles isn't funny enough in itself (it is) then nearly two hours of seeing why employing an 8 year old as a Los Angeles policeman would be a bad idea ought to be enough to convince even the most hardened cynic of the genius of this production. Go and buy this film now - you won't be disappointed!

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Blondes and Troma have such fun
Blondes and Troma have such fun
A Weird Al Yankovic style parody
I laughed nonstop
Wild and wacky

Blondes Have More Guns
Starring: Michael McGaham , Elizabeth Key , Richard Neil (III) , Gloria Lusiak , and André Brazeau
Director: George Merriweather
Manufacturer: TROMA ENTERTAINMENT INC.
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Release Date: 2004-04-27

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Writer-director George Merriweather's proudly crude comedy Blondes Have More Guns parodies erotic crime thrillers like Basic Instinct and largely succeeds, thanks to a very game cast and a nonstop barrage of lowbrow humor. Michael McGaharn stars as a trigger-happy L.A. detective assigned to crack a rash of chainsaw murders; his investigation (such as it is) leads him to a gold-digging femme fatale (Elizabeth Key) and her equally unscrupulous half-sister (Gloria Lusiak). When Harry becomes intimately involved with both women, it's up to his partners--one of whom believes he's a dog--to help him crack the case and find the killer. Borrowing the gags-every-minute approach refined by Airplane! and The Naked Gun series, Blondes isn't as consistently funny as those films, but does manage to be frequently amusing even when a joke bombs (which is fairly often), and should appeal to fans of broad slapstick. --Paul Gaita

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Blondes and Troma have such fun.......2003-03-13

A beautiful blonde, whose face we don't see, is sitting atop a man, his hands tied to the bed. Sound familiar? Well, instead of an ice pick, she uses a chainsaw, and guess what? From the moment the message "This motion picture has been altered from its original format. It has been dubbed in Swahili", appears on screen, we know how serious this movie is.

The Concord Police Department investigates, with officers Dick Smoker and Harry Bates, the latter who find a clue through a wedding invitation. The blonde getting married is Montana Beaver, though via her marriage to loser architect Lyle Shotz, becomes Montana Beaver-Shotz. The exchange over this bit of info goes like this:

Smoker: It was a lovely ceremony Mrs. Beaver-Shotz.

Montana: Montana, please.

Smoker: It was a lovely Montana, Mrs. Beaver-Shotz.

Montana: The hyphen is silent.

Bates: You shouldn't try to hide it. You should be very proud to still have it on your wedding day.

Hyphen, hymen, get it? This is typical of the dialogue throughout the movie, snappy, play-on-words, but delivered deadpan a la The Naked Gun. Much of the film's strengths rest on that delivery, as well as sight gags.

Bates is very much lacking in the brain department. His former partner Henry took the death of his dog hard and is dressed up in a dog costume, but Harry takes it all in stride. "He was a good cop. Now he's a good pet."

To complicate matters, there's Dakota, Montana's "twin half-sister, once removed", who falls for Harry. She looks really nice when she has her hair like Bonnie Tyler in one scene. Meanwhile, there are a few more killings.

This is mostly a parody of Basic Instinct, down to the "no smoking in the interrogation room scene", but there are pokes at
Indecent Proposal, Silence Of The Lambs (the autopsy scene involving the cadavre "Wait! There's something in his mouth!"), The Three Faces Of Eve, and The Crying Game, as well as plays on verbal references to Rear Window, Dirty Harry and 9-1/2 Weeks. Some of them are caught easily, such as the list of doctors paged over the hospital intercom--"Dr. Quinn, your show has been cancelled." Others are subtle, such as the opening scene at a restaurant, I heard a black man saying off-screen, "Nicole, tell the waiter to get me one of them big a-- steak knives." I about bust a gut laughing.

The sex scene between Harry and Dakota involving pizza is sheer hilarity, with cartoon and animal sound effects, and Dakota has a really nice pair to boot.

... In one scene, Harry, when discussing having rugrats (guess which movie?) says he wants three kids: "If one turns out gay, you can disown him and you won't be left with an only child."

Michael McGaharn is simply funny as Harry Bates, aided by the two luscious blondes, Elizabeth Key (Montana) and Gloria Lusak (Dakota). A very silly movie lacking PC-ness of any kind. It'll leave you with anything but a "7-11 state of mind." Whoever thought Troma could make something so funny?

Blondes and Troma have such fun.......2003-03-13

The Concord Police Department investigates, with officers Dick Smoker and Harry Bates, the latter who find a clue through a wedding invitation. The blonde getting married is Montana Beaver, though via her marriage to [] architect Lyle Shotz, becomes Montana Beaver-Shotz. The exchange over this bit of info goes like this:

Smoker: It was a lovely ceremony Mrs. Beaver-Shotz.

Montana: Montana, please.

Smoker: It was a lovely Montana, Mrs. Beaver-Shotz.

Montana: The hyphen is silent.

Bates: You shouldn't try to hide it. You should be very proud to still have it on your wedding day.

This is mostly a parody of Basic Instinct, down to the "no smoking in the interrogation scene", but there are pokes at
Indecent Proposal, Silence Of The Lambs (the autopsy scene involving the cadavre "Wait! There's something in his mouth!"), The Three Faces Of Eve, and The Crying Game, as well as plays on verbal references to Rear Window, Dirty Harry and 9-1/2 Weeks. Some of them are caught easily, such as the list of doctors paged over the hospital intercom--"Dr. Quinn, your show has been cancelled." Others are subtle, such as the opening scene at a restaurant, I heard a black man saying off-screen, "Nicole, tell the waiter to get me one of them big a-- steak knives." I about bust a gut laughing.

The sex scene between Harry and Dakota involving pizza is sheer hilarity, with cartoon and animal sound effects, and Dakota has a really nice pair to boot.

A Weird Al Yankovic style parody.......2001-06-28

Greetings from Tromaville!

A parody of cop films involves a cop who tries to solve a murder with his traumatized friend who is a policeman that think's he's a dog ("It's a shame, he was a good cop." "Yea, but he's a great dog!"), a woman who has an identical twin step-sister, and many other zany charectors!

If you are a fan of "The Naked Gun", "Hot Shots", or "UHF", you should definetly check out "Blonds Have More Guns"

I laughed nonstop.......1999-09-10

This is one of the funniest films I have seen in a long time. I literally laughed nonstop until the credits, and even they were funny. This reminds me of the Groove Tube or Kentucky Fried Movie. I can't wait to see what this Merriweather guy does next.

Wild and wacky.......1999-09-03

Wild and wacky sendup of such thrillers as Basic Instinct and Seven. Comedian Michael McGaharn is right on the money as Detective Harry Bates, quick with the one-liners and hot on the trail of a serial killer. In true B-movie fashion, Harry falls for the prime suspect, a mysterious woman named Montana, (Elizabeth Key, blonde and then some). The best part is that none of this is taken with a grain of salt. George Merriweather is the genius behind this project.

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