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26 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 63Chicago TribuneKatie WalshChicago TribuneKatie WalshThe jokes are dirty and wildly inappropriate, but are thoughtfully played.
- 50New York Daily NewsEdward DouglasNew York Daily NewsEdward DouglasIt’s a convoluted mess that zig-zags all over the map. On the plus side, there are enough jokes that connect to keep you along for the ride.
- 50San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleAs light entertainment goes, CHiPs is fairly accomplished, and Pena and Shepard make a good team. If someone wants to turn CHiPs into a franchise of some kind, worse things have happened.
- While CHIPS sure is goofy, it falls flat compared to other buddy-cop comedies in its genre, relying too heavily on unpleasant sex jokes (often revolving around gay panic) and a nonsensical crime plot.
- 42Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallTampa Bay TimesSteve PersallSure, the plot is paper thin like most reboots, but CHiPs is less about the story and more about the special effects and stunt riding, which are jaw-dropping.
- 40Screen DailyTim GriersonScreen DailyTim GriersonA grab bag of vulgarities, sex jokes, slapstick, nudity and chase scenes, the action-comedy CHIPS holds together better than expected, thanks largely to the goofy, dim-bulb rapport between stars Dax Shepard and Michael Peña.
- 30TheWrapRobert AbeleTheWrapRobert AbeleThe humor is way more miss than hit, prone to the kind of raunch (analingus debates, homophobia teasing, who’s-hot-who’s-not) that feels available, not thought-out, and pain gags that don’t get funnier the more they’re repeated.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckA puerile combination of raunchy sex comedy and bland action vehicle, CHIPS will likely manage the difficult feat of simultaneously alienating fans of the original series and newcomers who will wonder why a buddy cop comedy displays so much homosexual panic.
- 30VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanShepard just sprinkles overstated banter onto a generic plot and bits of pedal-to-the-metal action, as if he was serving the action-comedy gods by sticking the usual ingredients in a blender and pushing “puree.”
- 30Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzArizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzCHIPS is a miserable movie, an exercise in stupidity that takes whatever nostalgia one had for the late-1970s television series – this assumes anyone actually had nostalgia for it — and beats it to death on a bed of idiocy. The action scenes, though, are pretty well-directed.