CHIPS
Warner Bros. | Release Date: March 24, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
28
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 26 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
10
Negative:
15
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
63
Chicago TribuneKatie WalshMar 23, 2017
The jokes are dirty and wildly inappropriate, but are thoughtfully played. Read full review
60
Total FilmJames MottramApr 9, 2017
All hot wheels and dick jokes, it’s fun but forgettable. Read full review
50
The Film StageJohn FinkMar 25, 2017
Shepard’s screenplay only feels a few drafts away from something that might have worked. Read full review
50
We Got This CoveredRobert Yaniz Jr.Mar 24, 2017
A blatant attempt to apply the winning 21 Jump Street formula to another television property, CHIPS instead winds up a standard hard-R action comedy that audiences will probably forget by the time they leave the theater. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleMar 23, 2017
As 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. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsEdward DouglasMar 23, 2017
It’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. Read full review
42
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallMar 23, 2017
Sure, 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. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyDevan CogganMar 23, 2017
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. Read full review
40
EmpireHelen O'HaraMar 24, 2017
It’s just a waste. The premise is ripe for absurdity and the talented supporting cast have interesting quirks that might have livened things up if Shepard ever gave them the chance. Instead, aside from a few surprisingly gory moments, this makes the original show look good. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangMar 23, 2017
Its principal ambition — basically, to make movies like “The Dukes of Hazzard” and “Starsky & Hutch” look like rigorous masterworks of screen-to-screen adaptation by comparison — may be as shallow as the gutter. But from time to time, the movie does throw off its own crazy, moronic verve. Read full review
40
Screen DailyTim GriersonMar 23, 2017
A 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. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreMar 24, 2017
It’s coherent enough to suggest competence, but Shepard plainly would have been better served sending the script out for doctoring, or contenting himself with acting and maybe second-unit (action sequence) directing. Read full review
38
Chicago Sun-TimesBill ZweckerMar 23, 2017
While I clearly cannot recommend this film, I have to admit there were a couple of amusing moments. Read full review
33
The A.V. ClubKatie RifeMar 23, 2017
Given the alternative between the big-screen CHIPS and an antiquated, low-stakes episode of the original TV series, we’d pick the latter in a heartbeat. Read full review
30
Village VoiceCraig D. LindseyMar 24, 2017
CHIPS is so all-around masturbatory, it’s hardly a surprise when we learn that Ponch has to constantly pull over because he needs to find a bathroom and rub one out. Much like him, this revved-up orgy of raunch and sweet rides never stops jerking itself off. Read full review
30
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisMar 23, 2017
Borderline incoherent and unrepentantly lewd, this buddy-cop comedy (based on the 1977-83 television series of the same name) substitutes cars, ’copters and motorcycles for actual characters Read full review
30
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzMar 23, 2017
CHIPS 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. Read full review
30
VarietyOwen GleibermanMar 23, 2017
Shepard 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.” Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckMar 23, 2017
A 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. Read full review
30
TheWrapRobert AbeleMar 23, 2017
The 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. Read full review
20
The TelegraphRobbie CollinApr 4, 2017
Often the film resorts to that unforgivable cheat move of having the supporting cast laugh at its leads’ antics on screen, in the hope of prompting us to do likewise. Instead I found myself curling over in such a paralysing cringe, my body had to be rolled out of the cinema afterwards like a dented bicycle wheel. Read full review
20
Time Out LondonTom HuddlestonMar 24, 2017
Soul-crushingly unfunny...It’s a movie that assumes that if you repeat ad nauseam an unfunny joke about ass-licking, it’ll magically become hilarious. It’s so grotesquely misogynistic, it makes The Hangover look like Thelma & Louise. Read full review
20
TimeStephanie ZacharekMar 24, 2017
CHIPS is just tiresomely stupid. Read full review
12
RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsMar 24, 2017
This isn't a knowing parody of a beloved show, a la the 2012 reboot/parody "21 Jump Street"; it's a sample of the brain-dead entertainment against which its creators are supposedly reacting. Read full review
12
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)John SemleyMar 23, 2017
It’s not uniquely bad, nor so bad it’s good. It’s factually, quantifiably bad. Overcooked, underdressed, sloppy, indigestible: just your classic crap hamburger of a movie. Read full review
11
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesMar 29, 2017
The investigation is dull, the jokes dispiritingly flat-footed, with Ponch’s sex addiction and squirminess over male intimacy supplying most of the setups for CHIPS’ puerile humor. Read full review
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