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Different Kinds Of Funny In 'Reno 911!'
Shawn Beals
Issue date: 2/26/07 Section: Focus
The Reno Sheriff's Department appears in their first feature-length film, "Reno 911!: Miami." The movie is essentially an extended version of a regular episode of the show, this time with adult language and gratuitous nudity, plus extra-incompetent police work.
The plot is based on the Reno Sheriff's Department receiving an invitation to a national police convention in Miami.
"Why did they invite us?" asked Deputy Travis Junior.
"The invited us because they invited everybody," replied Lt. Jim Dangle.
When they show up late to the convention on the second day after staying out all night partying, they manage to be the only police officers in all of Miami who are not trapped in a building by a bio-terrorism attack. The Reno Sheriff's Department is then called upon to patrol the streets of Miami and investigate the terror attack to find an antidote and save all of the police officers inside.
Out on patrol, the team encounters alligators, a chicken and a beached whale on their way to accidentally uncovering the plot of the assistant deputy mayor and a drug lord to run the city after all other city officials are trapped at the convention.
The laughs come easy in "Reno 911!: Miami," with the themes of racism and homosexuality returning from the show. Dangle, played by Thomas Lennon, is finally confirmed as gay after constant hints during the show, and Deputy Clementine Johnson (Wendi McLendon-Covey) and Deputy James Garcia (Carlos Alzaraqui) get drunken tattoos of each other on their bodies.
"Reno 911!: Miami" was produced by Danny DeVito, who makes a cameo as a district attorney, and directed by Ben Garant, who plays Junior, according to imdb.com. Writing is credited to Garant, Lennon and Kerri Kenney, who plays Deputy Trudy Wiegel.
Other cameos include a less than one-minute appearance by The Rock as a S.W.A.T. team member who blows himself up with a grenade, and Paul Reubens as the father of Terry, the roller-skater whom the Reno Sheriff's Department often deals with back in Reno for reported "lewd behavior."
Paul Reubens previously appeared on several episodes of Reno 911! as a civilian who outsmarted the Reno team on investigations, but was later revealed to have committed the crimes.
Terry's return from the show was one of the funnier moments of the movie, as was the team blowing up a beached whale to get rid of it, only to have pieces of whale rain down on the people of Miami. Dangle and Junior trying to quiet the music at Suge Night's birthday party, only to have a dozen guns pointed at them and acting like stripper-grams then diving into the ocean for a half-clothed getaway was typical of the over-the-top skits made possible by transferring the team to Miami.
"Reno 911!" goes back on the air for a new season April 1, according to Comedy Central's web site.
The plot is based on the Reno Sheriff's Department receiving an invitation to a national police convention in Miami.
"Why did they invite us?" asked Deputy Travis Junior.
"The invited us because they invited everybody," replied Lt. Jim Dangle.
When they show up late to the convention on the second day after staying out all night partying, they manage to be the only police officers in all of Miami who are not trapped in a building by a bio-terrorism attack. The Reno Sheriff's Department is then called upon to patrol the streets of Miami and investigate the terror attack to find an antidote and save all of the police officers inside.
Out on patrol, the team encounters alligators, a chicken and a beached whale on their way to accidentally uncovering the plot of the assistant deputy mayor and a drug lord to run the city after all other city officials are trapped at the convention.
The laughs come easy in "Reno 911!: Miami," with the themes of racism and homosexuality returning from the show. Dangle, played by Thomas Lennon, is finally confirmed as gay after constant hints during the show, and Deputy Clementine Johnson (Wendi McLendon-Covey) and Deputy James Garcia (Carlos Alzaraqui) get drunken tattoos of each other on their bodies.
"Reno 911!: Miami" was produced by Danny DeVito, who makes a cameo as a district attorney, and directed by Ben Garant, who plays Junior, according to imdb.com. Writing is credited to Garant, Lennon and Kerri Kenney, who plays Deputy Trudy Wiegel.
Other cameos include a less than one-minute appearance by The Rock as a S.W.A.T. team member who blows himself up with a grenade, and Paul Reubens as the father of Terry, the roller-skater whom the Reno Sheriff's Department often deals with back in Reno for reported "lewd behavior."
Paul Reubens previously appeared on several episodes of Reno 911! as a civilian who outsmarted the Reno team on investigations, but was later revealed to have committed the crimes.
Terry's return from the show was one of the funnier moments of the movie, as was the team blowing up a beached whale to get rid of it, only to have pieces of whale rain down on the people of Miami. Dangle and Junior trying to quiet the music at Suge Night's birthday party, only to have a dozen guns pointed at them and acting like stripper-grams then diving into the ocean for a half-clothed getaway was typical of the over-the-top skits made possible by transferring the team to Miami.
"Reno 911!" goes back on the air for a new season April 1, according to Comedy Central's web site.
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