Cult Comedy Movies The Congress ' title='Cult Comedy Movies The Congress ' />CHIPS Law Order Comedy Keystone Cops Update. Hollywood hasnt yet caught up with the moral panic of the past year and a half, so a movie such as CHi. Ps a theatrical version of the 1. TV series about the California Highway Patrol reflects the general mindlessness of mainstream entertainment. But CHi. Ps still has political content its vacuousness is consistent with the anecdotes and social rules regularly offered in TV product that placates viewers between commercial spots. The political pacification continues even while the movie turns the old series comforting morality on its head. This flip into R rated raunch is also Hollywood convention. The gimmicky heroes of CHi. Ps, Officers Jon Baker Dax Shepard and Frank Ponch Poncherello Michael Pea, still ride motorcycles patrolling the Los Angeles streets, highways, and outlying areas, but this time the cops are as idiosyncratic as the cranky drivers and criminals they monitor. Shepards Baker, a former X Games biker who becomes a cop after his youthful career crashes, and Peas Ponch, a semi rogue FBI agent, are teamed up and sent to apprehend a crime ring inside the force. CHi. Ps is mostly interesting for its update of cop lore. The comic approach of writer, director, co star Shepard takes the TV series cult figures no more seriously than its references to infamous California police incidents, from the Rodney King video to the O. J. Simpson highway chase to the late 1. Rampart scandal. Yet its impossible to watch CHi. Ps without also thinking about Hollywoods treatment of California policing whether in those mid 2. 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Reliance on the genres popularity as a modernized version of the Western that updated urban social history and mythology always demonstrates the film industrys political ambivalence. After all, whos going to protect those fantastic million dollar homes But the genre also brings out the inner city audiences ambivalence both fascination and disdain vis vis authority figures who walk the line as either public servant or public menace. CHi. Ps doesnt reflect the anti cop hysteria recently fomented by the news media, which is ironic, considering that this era of cultural panic is partly a creation of the unholy blur between TV networks news and entertainment departments. If CHi. Ps were more than a dirty minded action comedy, it would dramatize the contemporary purgatory of law vs. Instead, Shepard and a crew of almost 1. Keystone Kops chase and explosion scenes through such L. A. locales as the Fourth Street Bridge, Shoreline Drive, and the National Forests Devils Punch Bowl. They waste the opportunity to make social realism express the modern condition which was thrilling when Peter Hyams made his 1. L. A. cop movie Busting. Could the erratic events and characterizations in CHi. Ps also indicate Hollywoods cowardice about making heroes of police in this politically panicked momentThe armored car robberies conducted by an inside group of CHi. Ps officers led by Vincent DOnofrio, lending gravitas to a sketchy subplot steamroll over the storys moral conflicts Im making a hole, DOnofrio shouts behind the wheel of a SWAT tank. The dirty jokes and farcical mishaps in CHi. Ps include that hoary device of the profane, apoplectic black police chief Isiah Whitlock Jr. Beverly Hills Cop and 4. Hrs. It still gets laughs, but it prevents insight into the complex motivations behind corruption which make cops a reflection of our own humanity, as Robert Aldrich showed in his expressionist 1. Wambaughs The Choirboys. Could the erratic events and characterizations in CHi. Ps also indicate Hollywoods cowardice about making heroes of police in this politically panicked moment Plot logic comes and goes so that nothing develops from DOnofrios intense declaration of Im Law, motherfer The old kind or its opposite, Peas soulful, comic slow burn when indicating Ponchs secret nerve and mischievous thoughts. Theres richness to these two performances as well as the tragedy of superb actors trapped in crap. In CHi. Pss best moment, Baker reminds Ponch You save peopleThats what a person does, especially an officer of the law. That especially clause resounds Its what audiences take comfort hearing whether or not they trust it, even if Hollywood doesnt always believe in it. During our national moment of ongoing panic, that reminder extends from the beat cop to the Congress. Armond White is the author of New Position The Prince Chronicles.