Is there a cop to save the world? : Successful reboot! [critique]

The fourth part of the saga remains faithful to its fundamentals scato and burlesque. A shot of politically incorrect inside which Liam Neeson reveals an irresistible comic nature.

This summer is therefore that of all come and back. After the franchise Remember… last summer and the return of the duo Lindsay Lohan- Jamie Lee Curtis in the rest of Freaky Fridayhere is that the saga is reappeared on our big screens Is there a cop…? For a fourth part, more than 30 years after the previous one (Hollywood who followed The queen et The president), that we had not necessarily seen coming. And this for infinity of reasons. Because Leslie Nielsen, the brilliant performer of Lieutenant Frank Drebin, died in 2010. Because this project announced in December… 2013 with Ed Helms (Very Bad Trip) at the head of the poster seemed to be for all this time dead and buried. Because the American comedy now tends to desert the field of cinema to develop in series. But also and above all because, the more the years pass, the more his burlesque humor also openly scato and ultra-sexual appears on paper in total offset with our more polished era where sexism accusations could easily see the light of day and create a bad buzz, killing in the egg the career in theaters of the film.

Fortunately Seth MacFarlane, the man ofAmerican Dad ! and Ted – Who knows about it in transgressive humor – had the good idea to ignore these a priori by taking control as producer of this reboot and by entrusting the role of Drebin to an actor that we had never seen so far as a hero of pure comedy. Liam Neeson, whose talent he had perceived hidden on this playground for an appearance in his Ted 2.

And the great and good idea of MacFarlane, of the director Akiva Schaffer (Neighbors of the third type) and his co -writers is not to have sought to return to forced march – and therefore artificially – the universe Is there a cop …? in our time. They have taken the opposite side: return to the sources of the saga (we hear the credits of Police Squadthe ZAZ series at the origin of everything in 1982, we come across Priscilla Presley, the unforgettable Jane Spencer for a fleeting appearance, we feast in front of a scene – tribute to Nielsen and to the original cast) and go fully in the potache humor that tastes, doped with the comic rehearsal (here in particular linked to the consumption of coffee of his hero). All against the backdrop of an investigation obviously abracadabrant led by Drebin’s son (Liam Neeson therefore) after the death of an engineer with supervisors, the boss of the victim, a giant of Tech-style Elon Musk (Danny Huston) who developed a diabolical machine capable of bringing humans back to their barbaric nature.