Wednesday, August 13, 2014

News Curator: ‘Let’s Be Cops’ rates a stretch in witless protection

The only truly lethal weapons in the criminally unfunny action comedy “Let’s Be Cops’’ are the lame script, putrid direction and pair of sitcom stars mugging nonstop in frantic pursuit of laughs that have fled over the state line.

“New Girl” costars Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr. play a couple of 30-year-old nitwits who discover strangers respond to their LA cop masquerade costumes, so they decide to play cops for fun.

Johnson’s character is an unemployed actor and former football star for Purdue University — which ought to sue for defamation — while Wayans plays a video game designer.

Somehow their highly inexpert ruse fools even a veteran police officer (Rob Riggle), who becomes their ally.

Read here: NY Post

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