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The Mod Squad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Mod Squad was a television police drama from executive producer Danny Thomas in the United States that ran from 1968-1973. It was a police show that featured "hip" young crime fighters: one African-American, one street kid, and one blonde woman. The Mod Squad, a 1999 film, attempted to update the show's premise, making the young detectives more "edgy". en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Mod_Squad   (236 words)

Amazon.com: The Mod Squad (1999) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29) The only problem is the film was aimed at an audience that never saw the early-1970s TV series that inspired it, and this dubious recycling resulted in paltry returns at the box office. Before it's over, the "squad" is in it up to their necks, while also running afoul of a bunch of wrong cops who are also involved with the drugs, and consequently tied in with their investigation. The only thing that saves this film at all is the presence of Claire Danes, and had they have simply had ninety minutes of her on screen, and dumped the appalling Giovanni Ribisi, things would have been significantly better in my view. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0792842197?v=glance   (2299 words)

The Mod Squad The whole film really is a bunch of disjointed little pieces that have been extracted from any number of sources you care to name that have been linked together in a such a way that is designed to provide the utmost confusion to the viewer. However, it does seem that the quality of the transfer suffers the further the film goes on (or is that a result of the fact that the film was putting me to sleep?). There was no problem with film artefacts in the transfer, with just the odd fleck of white present, which is to be expected in such a recent film. www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/ModSquad.asp   (1513 words)

Movie Review - Mod Squad, The - eFilmCritic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29) The ones where a song from the film’s hopefully sell-able soundtrack blares in Dolby Digital while each member of the cast stares longfully (and long) to the side of the camera each on their own, instead of together like they should be. This film is 94 minutes long and I counted at least three of these sequences. But then, on the same title card, the film identifies what a “SQUAD” is. How dumb does it think its audience is? The film doesn’t even play up the definition of “MOD” in the screenplay other than as the title of the movie which essentially isn’t even there’s to claim to begin with. efilmcritic.com /review.php?movie=803&reviewer=198   (778 words)

CityBeat: The Electric Kool-Aid Action Test (1999-04-01) While The Mod Squad unspools, watching Danes' strong and confident crime fighter performance, it's clear there are dozens of other worse choices she could have made. Granted, The Mod Squad is not Danes' Boogie Nights, meaning the type of break-out film that gave Mark Wahlberg such credibility. The Mod Squad puts Danes closer in spirit to someone like Laura Dern who built her reputation with chancy roles in films such as Wild at Heart, Blue Velvet and Citizen Ruth. www.citybeat.com /1999-04-01/film.shtml   (2175 words)

`Mod Squad' Stays True to the Original / Story of undercover cops plays like TV series The premise for ``The Mod Squad'' was good when it aired in 1968-73 and still is. Three tough juvenile offenders are recruited as undercover cops to infiltrate youth hangouts where mean adults prey on kids. These Mod Squaders, of course, are resented by the ``real'' cops, and Ribisi sometimes seems to be playing a parody of one (``We're undercover!'' he blurts out at one point). At a radio station promotional screening for this film, the start of ``The Mod Squad'' was put at a disadvantage when it had to compete for attention with a guy from the audience who won a prize for brandishing his pair of dentures. www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1999/03/26/DD54411.DTL   (574 words)

'The Mod Squad': The Squad That Was Mod Is Reshod The main mystery surrounding this film (derived from an ABC television series that ran from September 1968 to August 1973) is why it was made. When the film begins, a lot of cocaine is missing from a police evidence locker, and the mod squad is sent into a club suspected of being a link to prostitution. Rating: "The Mod Squad" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). partners.nytimes.com /library/film/032699mod-film-review.html   (443 words)

USCCB Reviews - The Mod Squad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29) The Mod Squad -- Because of hokey violence, sexual situations, recurring rough language and occasional profanity, the U.S. Catholic Conference classification is (A-III) -- adults. The Mod Squad is an inept movie based on a 30-year-old TV series about three young criminals given a second chance to work undercover for the police. N.B.: Films with the initials "br" (before rating) or "nr" (not rated) denote those movies which were released either before the rating system was established, or are being released without an MPAA rating. www.nccbuscc.org /movies/m/the_mod_squad.htm   (243 words)

The Mod Squad Reviews It's clear Hollywood is scraping the bottom of the old TV barrel when filmmakers start adapting things like "The Mod Squad," which left the airwaves more than 25 years ago and has rarely been seen since. As anyone who has read my last two reviews: short films that studios and people alike have never heard of and are available for free download via the internet, you can probably guess that I have it out against the current regime of Hollywood movies,... Of the possible old television series to remake, "The Mod Squad" has to be one of the least promising. www.killermovies.com /m/themodsquad/reviews   (756 words)

miaminewtimes.com | | Film | A Dirty-Cop Drug Movie | 1999-04-01 TV's The Mod Squad, which ran on ABC from 1968 to 1973, was the creation of Bud Ruskin, who as a young man had worked as an undercover narc for the L.A. Sheriff's Department. His inspired notion was to package three "mod" Sixties youths in a format (the hourlong police drama) that even the staunchest silent majority type could handle. The stars of the new film version (Epps as Linc, Claire Danes as Julie, and Giovanni Ribisi as Pete) have shown their talent in other films. www.miaminewtimes.com /issues/1999-04-01/film.html   (915 words)

SPLICEDwire: "The Mod Squad" review That fact that "The Mod Squad" opens with a dictionary definition of "mod" appearing on the screen -- altered to include Generation Y hipsters -- did not bode well for the intelligence level to which this movie was aiming. When their police department mentor (Dennis Farina) is framed and murdered, the mod squad, which has never been viewed favorably by the rest of the cops in the precinct, sets out to solve the crime on their own, amidst a backdrop of wah-wah guitar action sequence music and the requisite cop movie running gags. Danes has already established herself as one of the better actresses of her generation in varied roles in films like "Little Women," "Home for the Holidays," "U-Turn" and "The Rainmaker." She gets the most character to chew on here with a sub-plot about a much older ex-lover (Josh Brolin) who comes back into her life. www.splicedonline.com /99reviews/modsquad.html   (664 words)

Salon Entertainment | The Mod Squad While not exactly high art, "The Mod Squad" made a certain kind of sense within its turbulent late-'60s/early-'70s time frame, when the idea that law enforcement could be young and hip was still a clever novelty. Mod Squad attire, which may be why the movie so often looks like little more than a big-budget jeans ad). Luckily for them, the squad's as incompetent as they are, which may be why it takes them so long to catch on to their wicked plans. www.salon.com /ent/movies/reviews/1999/03/26reviewb.html   (1097 words)

The Mod Squad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29) Not the least of the film's offenses is the way the trio of punks rehabilitated into an undercover police unit are surrealistically saddled with '70s speak in a '90s world, or the way they cruise the streets of LA in classic, gas-guzzling boats while everyone else drives a Japanese compact. Still worse is the characters' postured malaise, the inane dialogue, and a muddled plot that has something to do with dirty cops, a cache of drugs, and a frame-up. Miss Danes's future is not as a sex symbol, and The Mod Squad is way too "freaky" of a mess to be mod. www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/movies/99/04/01/THE_MOD_SQUAD.html   (233 words)

v6n95-mod.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29) On a scale of one to 10, the film, based on Aaron Spelling's 1970s television series, is a six, lacking in suspense and a hard-core selection of villains. The film focuses on the bittersweet bond of the three delinquents who are turned into undercover officers by the Los Angeles Police Department. The villains of the film are sleazy yet predictable, and they are no match for the street-smart trio who are not even allowed to have guns. www.csulb.edu /~d49er/spring99/v6n95-mod.html   (377 words)

The Mod Squad | The Brunching Shuttlecocks The Mod Squad is based on an old TV show called The Mod Squad. The film is proof positive that some TV shows are cancelled for a reason, and it isn't so that they can eventually be turned into feature films. I think the film itself has a plot, but I'm really not sure what it is. It seems to have something to do with Hanson. www.brunching.com /modsquad.html   (565 words)

THE MOD SQUAD - Critic Review...CinemaReview.com....Movie Reviews, Movie Contents, Moviegoer Opinions and Much More! Not surprisingly, THE MOD SQUAD is a loud and generally stupid action film with a dose of teen-angst melodrama. It's also a dim-witted and trite action film that has the nerve to wink ironically at its place in the pantheon of dim-witted and trite action films. THE MOD SQUAD is busy and headache-inducing, and rarely even manages to channel that into viscerally effective action. www.cinemareview.com /critics.asp?movieid=039913   (617 words)

The Michigan Daily Online The film is nearly destroyed by its choice to move away from the camp aspects of its source material, saddled by one of the worst plots ever to disgrace the screen. On the plus side, the film looks pretty good, sort of like a glorified MTV video with a lot of stylized shots and some seriously mod clothing. "The Mod Squad" could have been oodles of fun had the right angle been taken - the thought of Claire Danes and Giovanni Ribisi totally making fun of themselves and their surroundings is a nice fantasy to buy into. www.pub.umich.edu /daily/1999/mar/03-29-99/arts/arts2.html   (394 words)

DVD REVIEW: THE MOD SQUAD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29) Not if you're the popular television show "The Mod Squad." What was once "Mod" is now just odd, especially in a film that so desperately wants to be hip. All films go through numerous rewrites, but if what is on the screen was the final effort, I would like to see what got green lighted in the first place. Delivered in the film's original 1.85:1 widescreen ratio (there is also a full-frame version on the other side), and enhanced at 16:9 for widescreen televisions, the picture also suffers from obvious flecks. www.lightviews.com /modsquaddvd.htm   (920 words)

Willamette Week | Screen The film version of The Mod Squad attempts to recapture the cool of the TV series but ends up a boring Levi's commercial. The film is a '90s rehash of the late 1960s-early 1970s TV show created by cute-kid peddler Aaron Spelling. The Mod Squad may be the worst attempt yet to bring television to the big screen. www.wweek.com /html/screena033199.html   (694 words)

deseretnews.com - Movie review: The Mod Squad | Deseret Morning News Web edition And when the series that spawned the film wasn't any good, the project is pretty much assured of being a stinker. But aside from Ribisi's lame one-liners, the film is sorely lacking in humor and the action scenes are punchless. "The Mod Squad" is rated R for violent fistfighting, beatings, gunplay and car crashes, profanity, crude sexual slang and other sexual talk, simulated sex, female nudity, gore, simulated drug use (cocaine) and attempted rape. deseretnews.com /movies/view/1,1257,45000011,00.html   (412 words)

The Mod Squad Although The Mod Squad is based on a television show, it never hangs on an image for more than the length of a channel-flip. After their boss (Dennis Farina, in a brief cameo) is murdered (the scene is edited and lit in such a way that dialogue is required to determine just who the corpse belongs to), the trio goes in search of his killer. In discussing the movie afterwards with a friend, I voiced my complaint that we weren't dispensed enough information about this Mod Squad at the outset--they are thrust into partnership with the police before they've been sketched in as characters. www.filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/squad.htm   (362 words)

Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Mod Squad, The at Epinions.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29) The Mod Squad, if you don’t know already, is easily one of the biggest wastes of time ever. Halfway through this film, Katey downed her glass of wine like a champ and shouted, “They should have let us write this movie!” Writers Stephen Kay, Kate Lanier, and Scott Silver never seem to know or care what they really want from this movie, nor do they attempt to introduce direction to the script. The pain of being associated with this film is clearly visible on his face during his entire performance. www.epinions.com /content_26578751108   (887 words)

filmcritic.com Movie Review: The Mod Squad In case that hasn't tipped you off, my gripes about The Mod Squad, a movie based on a late-sixties, early-seventies TV show that wasn't that great to begin with, should probably clue you in. I am not saying starring, because anyone who would act in this film and consider themselves a star for it is either a drunk or has an agent that's a drunk, probably the latter. Claire Danes, Omar Epps, and Giovanni Ribsi make up a mod squad (insult to our intelligence: both terms are defined at the beginning of the film) of undercover cops under the command of Dennis Farina. www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/2a460f93626cd4678625624c007f2b46/d684b8b883d704a58825678000200654?OpenDocument   (590 words)

JoBlo reviews the movie "The Mod Squad" When you consider that this is a remake of a popular TV series, this might be caused by the lack of clarity on whether or not this movie was trying to be serious on its own, or a parody of said show. Also, early on in the movie, the kids have an opportunity to bail on their given ultimatum without any repercussions, but without much explanation, they remain on the case, for in my humble opinion, the sake of this most uninspirational screenplay. THE MOD SQUAD is a movie of squandered potential, but isn't as awful as I suspected. www.joblo.com /modsquad.htm   (1378 words)

Gen-X Cops It is completely style over substance and character development — and much of the dialogue is close to laughable — but unlike the recent Mod Squad movie, this film has a lot of energy and zest and is overall good mindless fun. Most of the young actors — both the good and bad guys — are fairly new to the HK film scene — and though no one actor has enough screen time to really make an impact — they all come off reasonably well and there is eye candy for both sexes to enjoy. To keep the film from completely blowing away in a breeze, there are two veteran actors — Eric Tsang and Francis Ng — with smaller but good parts and they bring a bit of intensity to their parts that the Gen-X kids can’t quite manage. www.brns.com /pages3/action50.html   (683 words)

Joey the Film Geek: Reviews - "The Mod Squad" I've never seen the old TV series "The Mod Squad," but I was looking forward to seeing this movie version. "The Mod Squad" was directed by Scott Silver, a guy with a unique style who got some acclaim a couple of years ago when he wrote and directed "Johns," a movie about male prostitutes that I never saw. I dunno, "The Mod Squad" was okay, I guess, but to me, it was more of a movie with great shots of Claire Danes. www.joeythefilmgeek.com /reviews2/modsquad.html   (489 words)

:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: The Mod Squad (xhtml)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29) The mod squad doesn't carry guns (officially, anyway), doesn't have badges, and I'm not sure if they can make arrests; maybe they're more like high-level snitches. As the mod squaders were creeping around, eavesdropping and peeping through windows, I grew restless: This is the kind of stuff they rewrote the Nancy Drew books to get rid of. Epps (``Scream 2,'' ``Higher Learning'') is the dominant member of the squad, who tries to protect the others from their insane risk-taking. rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19990326/REVIEWS/903260303   (730 words)

Mod Squad If you watched TV in the early 70's, you'll probably remember "The Mod Squad" TV series... "Mod Squad" the movie, borrows the hip idea of deputizing three prison-bound delinquents. 3) Twice our Mod Squaders catch the bad guys just openly revealing their scheming plans, making it painfully obvious what they are up to -- and repeating it twice for the tape recorder. www.rossanthony.com /M/squad.shtml   (335 words)

CNN - Review: Lame 'Mod Squad' remake limps into '90s - March 26, 1999 The film limps into action when the kids are told to look into a high-class hooker operation being run out of a nightclub. Silver is a graduate of the American Film Institute, and so are many of the other people behind the camera with him, so this guy has filmmaking qualifications out the wazoo. I think he was still in character for that film when he turned up for this one. www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9903/26/review.modsquad   (728 words)

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