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Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 2.35:1, Aspect Ratio 1.33:1, English, Subtitled, Sensormatic
If you love un-pixilated boob shots, exploding whales and cops gone wild, ride along as the stars of the wildly popular Comedy Central series Reno 911 make their big-screen debut! When Miami's "real" police force is quarantined, the Reno misfits, in town for a cop convention, become the only hope for the citizens of South Beach. But with access to high-speed patrol cars, lethal firearms and a killer attack chopper, Lt. Dangle and his bumbling crew may just destroy Miami before the criminals can even get started. Packed with gratuitous nudity, senseless violence and "lots of laughs," (New York Post), this gut-busting comedy is even funnier than a cavity search.
"...90 minutes or so during which people can put their brains on the shelf and enjoy a few laughs." Michael Esposito, Chicago Tribune
"...a welcome breath of fresh air..." Pete Vonder Haar, Film Threat
"I didn't know I wanted the "Police Academy" series resurrected with a lot more hilarity, but I'm glad somebody did it." Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
"Big laughs...short shorts..." Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"The absurdity is even better on DVD -- you can rewind and watch again." Entertainment Weekly
"...push[es] the boundaries of the comedy genre...delivers 90 minutes of solid laughs." Ultimate DVD
Editor's Note
IN THEATERS FEBRUARY 23, 2007The team from Comedy Central's RENO: 911! stretch out their talents for this full-length feature film, which finds them called into action when terrorists threaten to disrupt spring break in Miami.
| Features | Alternate Ending | | Audio Commentary By Robert Ben Garant, Kerri Kenney-Silver & Thomas Lennon | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Audio: French, Spanish Dolby Digital Stereo | | Dubbed: French, Spanish | | Extended Scenes | | Interactive Menus | | Original Theatrical Trailer | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Reno 911!: Miami - DVD By: David Levine - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 6/8/2007 6:57 PM | |
It's never a good sign when a film's press screening occurs the night before it opens. The film is instantly labeled a loser long before the opening credits even roll. So if Reno 911!: Miami was to be anything like its Comedy Central inspiration, then its 11th hour screening should come as a surprise. Unfortunately, for the most part, Miami is exactly what everyone expected it to be: raunchy and brainless. Yet, what I didn't expect was for Miami to be so bawdy, so unfunny, and so unlike its small screen roots that after the first 30 minutes I was so desperate to change the channel.
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Release Information
| | Studio: Foxvideo |
| Release Date: 8/6/2009 |
| Original Release Date: 2007 | | Catalog ID: 2244428 | | UPC: 00024543444282 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen/Standard 2.35:1/1.33:1 [4:3] |
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| | Professional Reviews | Entertainment Weekly
"The absurdity is even better on DVD -- you can rewind and watch again." -- Grade: B 06/22/2007 p.59Ultimate DVD
3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he film keeps things moving rapidly wand with enough edge to push the boundaries of the comedy genre....RENO 911: MIAMI certainly delivers 90 minutes of solid laughs." 06/01/2007 p.103 DVD Talk 8 of 10
"Many television shows have made the impossible leap to the big screen, but rarely do you encounter one that barely offers anything new to the paying customer...The Comedy Central program ""Reno 911!"" started life as a parody of ""Cops,"" the legendary Fox reality show about the horrors that face our nation's law enforcement. Taken to the comical extreme, the show examined life in Reno through the eyes of the local ragtag police squad, led with overt homosexual energy from Lt. Jim Dangle (Thomas Lennon). Buffoonery ensues...It looks terrible and has the production value of a snuff film. Hell, I'm not even sure it's an actual movie. But ""Miami"" features a convincing amount of hilarity and just the right amount of smut to consider this lateral move to the big screen a success." - Brian Orndorf
ReelViews 6 of 10
Reno 911!: Miami represents an argument against taking 22-minute TV comedy shows and expanding them to 80-minute feature films. Something that entertains over a short period when watched from the vantage point of a couch or a recliner does not necessarily offer a comparably enjoyable experience when expanded and lengthened. It can be done - see South Park and Monty Python for counter-examples - but those are not the norms. As a TV show, Reno 911! is diverting and amusing; as a motion picture, it's overlong and wears out its welcome. The film offers some solid laughs, but not enough to justify sitting through 80 minutes of the faux cops' antics...Devotees of the TV show, however, will probably not be disappointed...When a joke in Reno 911!: Miami works, it's usually hilarious, and a lot of the funniest moments are on the gross and/or crude side (what some have termed as "college humor"). The problem is that the ratio of successful jokes to running length isn't very good (about one per 10 minutes), and there are a lot of duds strewn along the way. There's something dispiriting about watching a comedy where there are many more misses than hits; maybe it's a result of expecting too much...Reno 911!: Miami is recommended only for die-hard fans of the TV show. - James Berardinelli
Variety 5 of 10
Fox has reaped nifty little paydays from risque comedies, but the minimal effort expended on this barely-feature-length version of Comedy Central's "Reno 911!" exposes the exercise for what it is -- namely, an opening-weekend pit stop en route to the inevitable unrated DVD release, which will likely do reasonably well. Running a mere 80 minutes and somehow still feeling heavily padded, this "Cops" spoof yields a few amusing (if widely spaced) moments but otherwise simply revels in the gratuitous nudity, language and below-the-belt gags that an "R" rating provides...With the series in its fifth season -- chronicling in deadpan, mock cinema verite-style the crime-fighting efforts of Reno's police force -- the producers obviously felt the movie needed a splashier stage, even if the biggest little city in the world is amusingly described near the outset as "like Mayberry, except everyone's on crystal meth and prostitution's legal"...Like any improvised comedy, though, there's a rarely-hit-and-mostly-miss element to the goings-on. It's telling that the obligatory closing-credit sequence displaying additional footage (not outtakes) isn't any better...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. - Brian Lowry
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