R | 1h 40m |Action, Comedy, Crime | March 23, 2017
Dax Shepard is a Hollywood “triple-threat” actor, that is, an actor who acts, writes, and directs (the New York triple-threat version acts, sings, and dances in Broadway musicals). Shepard also races and stunt rides top-end Ducati motorcycles. So who better to make a movie version of the 1970’s motorcycle cop TV show “CHiPS?”
Jon (Dax Shepard) in Warner Bros. Pictures’s action comedy “CHIPS.” (Peter Iovino/Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc./Ratpac-Dune Entertainment LLC)
Is “CHIPS” any good? It’s pretty funny. It also contains much grossness, but then, so does every R-rated comedy these days. The fact is, comedy and bawdiness have gone hand in hand since the ancient Greeks—not justifying it, just saying….