Parents' Guide to

Let's Be Cops

By S. Jhoanna Robledo, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 17+

Over-the-top comedy has tons of swearing, other iffy stuff.

Movie R 2014 104 minutes
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Community Reviews

age 15+

Based on 13 parent reviews

age 18+

Pretty good

Let's Be Cops was pretty good, but very dragged out!!!
age 14+

Good movie

Great comedy. Great violence. Great Movie.

Is It Any Good?

Our review:
Parents say (13 ):
Kids say (18 ):

LET'S BE COPS owes a lot to New Girl; its two leads successfully migrate the strikingly warm and funny rapport they share on that sitcom to this formulaic but still (somewhat) entertaining comedy. Both Wayans and Johnson throw themselves into the plot with such gusto ... which makes it even more of a pity that the screenplay is a retread of every single buddy comedy that ever was.

As a love interest, Nina Dobrev isn't given much to do besides play girl needing rescuing. (Aren't we tired of this cliche yet?) Then again, neither is anybody else, including Andy Garcia, who's criminally underused, and even the two headliners, who manage to eke out something close to entertaining even though they're left to their own devices by the so-so material and all-too-basic direction.

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