If I ever decide to be a small-time crook, no question about it, I’m moving to Reno: the cops there are so out of the loop that I could get away with anything I wanted. Of course, when I talk about Reno cops, I mean the ones from Comedy Central’s Reno 911. The show has been a hit in the past couple of years as the rag tag team takes to the streets, trying to conquer crime in one of Nevada’s roughest cities. And now they are on the big screen, in what is one of the funniest adaptations I’ve seen of a TV show in a long time.
Reno 911!: Miami is vulgar, over the top, and absolutely hilarious. It begins with the crew signing up to attend a national police conference and expo in Miami. Unfortunately for them, after a four-day bus trip, none of the expo coordinators can seem to find their paperwork. So, they are instead sent to a dumpy motel. After a night of clubbing (during which each member of the police force is caught masturbating) the team wakes up trying to figure out what they did the night before. Perhaps the one member with the most to ask is deputy Clementine Johnson (Wendi McLendon-Covey) who spends the rest of the film trying to figure out the identity of the mysterious man who she has tattooed to her bosom.
As they return to the conference, the crew realizes that a deadly bio-terrorism attack has infected the 2000 officers inside. As the only trained police officers in Miami who aren’t under quarantine (obviously), it becomes their mission for the rest of the movie not only to patrol the streets of Miami and keep them crime-free, but to try and find an antidote and save the infected police officers. Along the way, the officers encounter everything from a dead whale on the beach, to an alligator wreaking havoc in a private pool, to a Colombian drug lord who believes that the troopers are following him. Each of these plotlines has elements which make them laugh your ass off funny.
Even given all of the comedy it contains, Reno 911!: Miami has little substance. But it does have nudity! That’s the kind of attitude you need to go into the theater with if you decide to see this movie. Erase any preconceptions you may have about what makes a good film and just prepare to laugh your ass off. You’re not going to walk away from it with much intellectually, but you will have a smile on your face.
- Cole Merkel
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