a5c7b9f00b An FBI agent goes undercover in the California Highway Patrolofficer Frank &quot;Ponch&quot; Poncherello. Members of the CHP have been robbing cash delivery vehicles and his job is to uncover the perpetrators. At the CHP he is partnered with a 30-something rookie, Jon Baker. Baker is a former professional motorcycle rider with a list of ailments and personal problems who is lucky to be in the CHP. They are very different people and immediately clash. A rookie officer is teamed with a hardened pro at the California Highway Patrol, though the newbie soon learns his partner is really an undercover Fed investigating a heist that may involve some crooked cops. I grew up watching reruns of CHiPs on TV, and this movie&#39;s a poor adaptation of the classic series. The two main characters are nothing like their television counterparts. For some reason, Hollywood likes to turn hit TV cop shows into comedies, like Starsky &amp; Hutch and 21 Jump Street. CHiPs has a few good laughing moments, but overall I don&#39;t care for how the film&#39;s producers brought CHiPs to the big screen. If you want to see a buddy cop comedy, I recommend the first 21 Jump Street movie (Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill) and Showtime (Eddie Murphy, Robert De Niro, William Shatner). The 1970s &quot;CHiPs&quot; television show was a likable, if somewhat goofy and cheesy, series. Though I have a little soft spot for the show, I can see that the idea of making a modern day movie spoof of the series was promising. But try telling that to the movie&#39;s star/writer/director Dax Shepard. <br/><br/>His first (and prime) mistake was making this movie extremely raunchy and violent. The idea of having everything from graphic sex scenes to bloody decapitations simply doesn&#39;t fit with what was originally a family friendly show. This material feels just wrong. <br/><br/>Well, maybe this R-rated material could have worked had it been funny, but that&#39;s where Shepard&#39;s second mistake comes. The movie is simply not that funny at all. I only found two or three gags to be somewhat amusing in the entire 100 minute running time. Shepard seems to feel that simply showcasing raunchy and violent material is automatically funny, but it isn&#39;t.<br/><br/>The third mistake Shepard makes is with the story and characters. There is almost NOTHING about the television show in this movie. Sure, the movie has CHP officers named Ponch and Jon, but that&#39;s it. The television show had more regular characters, for one thing.<br/><br/>If you want to see a comic spoof of the old TV show, look for MAD Magazine&#39;s take instead of watching this ill-advised feature film. 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.
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