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Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee Movie Critic
"Showtime" is De Niro's latest attempt to be funny on screen, following broadly gruff comic turns in Harold Ramis' "Analyze This" (1999), Des McAnuff's "The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle" and Jay Roach's "Meet the Parents" (2000). Based on these films and especially the feeble "Showtime," it should be clear by now to anyone with a sense of humor that De Niro simply isn't very good as a comedian. ...
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
The cop buddy comedy is such a familiar genre that a movie can parody it and occupy it at the same time. The characters in "Showtime" do it as a kind of straddle, starting out making fun of cop buddy cliches and ending up trapped in them. The movie's funny in the opening scenes and then forgets why it came to play. ...
Bob Strauss
L.A. Daily News
Neither the funniest film that Eddie Murphy nor Robert De Niro has ever made, "Showtime" is nevertheless efficiently amusing for a good while. Before it collapses into exactly the kind of buddy cop comedy it set out to lampoon, anyway. ...
Steven Rea
Philadelphia Inquirer
"Showtime," which is mercifully short and comes with the requisite gaffes-and-goof-off outtakes end-credits, also features William Shatner as himself, using his T. J. Hooker expertise to counsel De Niro and Murphy on how to roll off the hood of a car. This is about as close as "Showtime" gets to amusing. Not very. ...
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Showtime
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(2002)
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Overview:
Actor-turned-cop Trey Sellars (Eddie Murphy) stumbles into an undercover operation in progress, blowing no-nonsense LAPD detective Mitch Preston's (Robert De Niro) chance of nailing a drug dealer. At the same time, a television news crew barges in on the action, causing Preston to lose control and shoot at the camera. To save his job, and redeem his station, he agrees to star opposite Sellars in a live reality show about cops produced by Chase Renzi (Rene Russo).
Starring:
Robert De Niro, Eddie Murphy, Rene Russo, Frankie B. Faison, William Shatner and Drena De Niro
Directed by:
Tom Dey
Written by:
Keith Sharon, Alfred Gough, Miles Millar and Johnny Cochran (uncredited)
Cinematographer:
Thomas Kloss
Composer:
Alan Silvestri
Studio:
Warner Bros.
Release Date:
March 15, 2002
MPAA Rating:
(PG-13) - for action violence, language and some drug content
Running Time:
95 minutes
Websites:
Official Site
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