
Dave and Rob, fresh from the Police Academy, enrage their captain because they want to do more than controlling the traffic. As penalty they are sent to Brooklyn. However they don't give up, but develop their own methods to fight against dealers, criminals and corrupt colleagues.... (Full plot summary below)
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Dave and Rob, fresh from the Police Academy, enrage their captain because they want to do more than controlling the traffic. As penalty they are sent to Brooklyn. However they don't give up, but develop their own methods to fight against dealers, criminals and corrupt colleagues.
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| Cinema CrazedFelix Vasquez Jr.It's a one of a kind absolutely wacky cop film and one that may never be topped again. |
| User ReviewJack SBased on a true story, the 1970's may have been the last decade when something like this could have actually happened. |
| User ReviewIan CHillarious cop buddy flick from Shaft director Gordon Parks. Two rookie cops (soon to be christened Batman and Robin)want to climb the career ladder by busting drug pushers on there own time. These two mavericks make Serpico look like a bent coppers as they struggle with the politcs involved within the NYPD. |
| User ReviewStephen CThe Anti Serpico if you will based on the true life events surronding two rookie New York Cops who beat the system and did things in thier sometimes own rather wacky way. Greenberg and Hantz are two rookie cops who take on drug dealers in their spare time much to the chagrin oftheir superiors who see them as nothing but trouble. When they are fiannly assingned a police station their captain takes a shine to their biazzare methods and gives then carte blanche to run down a brotherhood of drug dealers praying on the area. The film works because its help by two great central performances from David Selby and Ron Leibman as the two cops, they really have a natraul rapport and in some parts the film is very very funny. Its also works beacuse the director is Gordon Parks who directed Shaft and knows how to use the New York loacations to his best advantage. |
| User ReviewAllan CReleased the same year as "Serpico", this true story of two rookie cops who buck a corrupt and apathetic police department to clean-up the streets of NYC. Though the story deals with the serious issues of drug crimes and police corruption, the film is breezy and entertaining, as compared to the much more strident = "Serpico". Although "Serpico" is clearly the better film, "The Super Cops" manages to hold it's own in it's own offbeat way. A terrifically entertaining and smart film that deserves better than cult status. |
| User ReviewTim SThis is quite an excellent buddy cop movie that manages to not come off as overtly silly. It actually has a sort of bizarre feeling going on throughout, never quite nailing what kind of tone it wants to establish and carry through, but it's enjoyable enough to be overlooked. There aren't any fantastic performances, per se - everybody just seems to be having a good time, but when the odds are being stacked against the "Batman and Robin" pairing, you do want to root for the guys. It's interesting to note that this was written by Lorenzo Semple Jr., who wrote the Batman and Robin television series, and also features an appearance by Pat Hingle, who would go on to play Commissioner Gordon in the first four Batman films. The Warner Archive is due to be release a disc of this in the future, so keep an eye out for it if you get the chance. |
| User ReviewDaniel EMake Starsky and Hutch look like a pair of prags |
| User ReviewDave GDirector Gordon Parks' excellent buddy-cop corruption comedy, with a cast of great genre and character actors - this seems most often compared to Serpico, Dirty Harry and The French Connection from what little I could find on it. But really, it bears more resemblance to The New Centurions and earlier blaxploitation classics in terms of comic tone, racial politics and groovy yet tough protagonists. Curiously, there is a brief but enjoyable gunfight and chase through a building under demolition, making me involuntarily compare scenes and buddy mechanics with Starrett's The Gravy Train of the same year. Funny that it concerns a couple of unconventional cops nicknamed Batman and Robin, given that the screenwriter worked on the `60s series. Also, the presence of bulldog-eyed genre fave Pat Hingle, who would go on to repeatedly play Commissioner Gordon. Frazier has great inter-racial sexual tension with the also funny Leibman, and her scream session suggests that she could have had a terrific career in horror. Maybe now that this is getting screened at the New Bev in L.A. by Edgar Wright, one hopes that we could eventually see it surface from MGM for an HD broadcast. |