RENO 911!: MIAMI [R]
There is no middle ground with Comedy Central’s breakout series, “Reno 911!” and the same can be said about the uncensored movie — either you love it or you don’t. In tired, mock documentary fashion, it follows the Reno, NV sheriff’s department as they attend a police conference in Miami and wind up the only crew not trapped in a building during a bio-terror quarantine, thus leaving them to police the city. Like the series, the movie is very on-the-nose, with its cartoonish characters — the gay captain, the slut, the sista, the homely girl — and its threadbare plot serving as a weak excuse to move from dull sketch to dull sketch. A Scarface parody? How innovative! A beached whale blown up with explosives? How droll! At least the snarky Strangers With Candy movie had some focus; this one just has some fart jokes. –Robert Newton