Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

bensonmum2 Instead of doing jail time, three young hoodlums agree to go undercover to help the police. The idea is that they can get into places where a normal cop would stand out like a sore thumb. But when their commanding officer is murdered, the three would-be cops are immediately suspected. They'll have to work together to clear their names and find the real killer.There's really not much to say about The Mod Squad other than it's one hot mess of a movie! The plot is a total disaster. First, the premise is ludicrous. If these three were any good at undercover work, it might have made more sense. However, they blow their cover almost immediately. Second, it's all so dull. The just over 90-minute runtime drags more than it should There's nothing that held my interest, Long stretches of tedious dialogue and lifeless action. Third, and most importantly, the script is horribly predictable. It's not very hard figuring out what's going on and who the baddies are. Plot points are telegraphed from the beginning. It's one of the more poorly written scripts I've seen in a major, theatrically released film. Too bad, really. The Mod Squad should have set-up Claire Danes for a long, interesting career in films. Coming off Little Women and Romeo & Juliet, she was primed to be the next big thing. But if you look at her filmography, it's not hard to see what this movie did to her career. Sure, she's been successful, but she hasn't been the big star she could and should have been. As for Danes' costars, the less said the better. Epps proves he can't act and Ribisi is uber-annoying. Danes is the lone bright spot in what is otherwise a pitiful excuse of a movie.

capone666 The Mod SquadThe worst part about employing young undercover cops is they binge drink at house parties and break cover.Thankfully, the covert trio in this action movie are too busy tracking a killer to attend ragers.Opting to work for the police in a new department instead of serving time, Julie (Claire Danes), Pete (Giovanni Ribisi) and Linc (Omar Epps) are trained in the art of infiltration by their mentor Capt. Greer (Dennis Farina).But when Greer ends up on the wrong side of a drug lord's gun, the motley crew must bring his killer to justice.A slapdash adaptation of the groundbreaking counterculture cop drama from the '60s, this 1999 version lacks the social and political undercurrent of its source material. Instead, it's a lifeless and shoddily acted knock-off - similar to the original in name only.Besides, immature undercover officers today can't stop posting on Twitter about being undercover. Red Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

ofumalow I'm not sure why this has the reputation it does, beyond the fact that it's one more needless remake, and this one wound up starring several people who never graduated to full-on movie stardom. Otherwise, it's no better or worse than most routine remakes of old movies or TV series in recent years. The relative cool (at the time) of the original TV series--which cast ostensible hippies as offenders-turned-undercover-cops--is hard to reproduce, as since then we've had "21 Jump Street" and so forth. Plus the line between "straight" and "alternative" culture is much less distinct than it was back then. But in any case, this movie hardly tries--it just uses the name as an excuse for a routine action movie about hot young ex-perp cops. Supposedly hot, at least. Danes seems like a junior legal secretary, Ribisi acts like a spaz, and Epps is OK but charisma-free. Actually they're all OK, under the circumstances, but none are particularly convincing--just good actors miscast as action heroes. Still, there's nothing particularly obnoxious about this misfire, the way there is about, say, your average Michael Bay joint. It's just mediocre. The packaging is perfectly competent if uninspired. The director's only prior feature was an excellent indie drama, "Johns," and it's really too bad that this flop mainstream crossover seems to have basically killed his career. (He did have a hand in the screenplays for later successes "8 Mile" and "The Fighter.") Actually the brief dramatic aspects here--Ribisi's disillusionment with his parents, Danes with her lying beau-- are decently handled. It's more the action/adventure/comedy angles that fail to levitate, though despite a few silly moments they're not particularly bad. (The funniest moment is a complete non sequitur when Ribisi shows up on the beach with take-out coffee and his recipients have no idea why he got it. Believe me, it's better in context.) Why do certain mainstream movies bomb and get labelled as serious duds, while others that are at least as bad (and/or as financially unsuccessful) get labelled as disasters? It's not always explicable. "The Mod Squad" isn't a particularly good movie. But it's not a particularly bad one, either. Actually it's kinda enjoyable, at least on the level of the routine TV action- series episodes it was inspired by (and which its musical score conspicuously imitates). It's just another so-so would-be franchise-launching film that got branded a dud cuz it landed like one. Maybe it would have been a better idea to parody the source the outdated material, as the big-screen "Charlie's Angels" and "Starsky & Hutch" (or "21 Jump St.") did.

Bogmeister I must preface this comment with a sort of admission: I suppose I just have a soft spot for the original 60s-70s TV series. I think the filmmakers here blew it from the get-go as far as casting: in a supposed remake, audiences would look for reflections of the hip, athletic Linc (Clarence Williams III), or the cool, with-it Michael Cole, and so forth. Instead, we get Giovanni Ribisi as a poor-little-white rich boy who comes off as just pathetic, like he is in all his roles (in the office I used to work in, I amused myself once by creating a fake movie poster, casting various actors as members of the office staff; guess who I cast as the dorky son of the company President?). Danes does OK as the new Julie, but none of the characters have much to do, as the story just sort of sits there, mired in conventionality. So it's quite forgettable, besides. What was I talking about?