Dragnet is a perfect FEELGOOD 80s cop comedy that i grew up watching & loving & have watched it hundreds of times & yet i can't get bored of it!!! Dragnet is my 2nd favourite film of all time after GHOSTBUSTERS 2, DAN AYKROYD is BRILLIANT as Joe Friday he's hilariously fun & rapid fire wit pours out of his BRILLIANT performance & works perfectly with the also BRILLIANT TOM HANKS as pep streeback his crazy fun-loving chilled-out new partner & these two are so much fun to spend time with watching this feelgood film. Yep a perfect Happy & fun movie that i never want to end!!! One of the best comedies of the 80s & so underrated & my favourite AYKROYD performance by far!!! A comic genius & comedy legend. DRAGNET sits perfectly & proudly next to my number one movie GHOSTBUSTERS 2

Dragnet is a good movie with a well written storyline and a great comedic cast.Its certainly not an outstanding comedy that made me laugh so frequently that I want to see it again,but it was fun while it lasted and it certainly had some good moments.It was weird seeing Dan Aykroyd in the serious role and Tom Hanks as a comic relief,because back then Hanks was not an A-list actor,but it really seemed strange to me that there was a time when Dan Aykroyd was bigger than Tom Hanks.Despiite feeling like these roles would have made sense the other way around,they both did great jobs,some of Aykroyds intellectual dialogue seemed very tricky,but he delivered it in pure confidence,Hanks character was very funny and there was great chemistry between both actors.Its nothing outstanding but still an enjoyable hour and forty minutes,I would recommend Dragnet as a good comedy to watch if you ever see it on television. A straight laced LAPD cop and his easy going new partner try to bust a criminal conspiracy.Best Performance: Tom Hanks Worst Performance: Bruce Gray

Dragnet is one of those films from the 80s that you just love. It's laugh out loud funny, and the jokes - mainly the deadpan stuff - never get old. So many of the lines are incredibly familiar, and like films like Top Gun, Princess Bride, Dirty Dancing many people can quote you large chunks of the script. Dan Aykroyd is brilliant as the policing by numbers monologue play by the books guy; similar role to his character in Gross Pointe Blank and there's a little of the Blues Brothers in there too. His comedic genius is playing everything so straight against Tom Hanks' enjoyable over the top, very physical slapstick sort of comedy. Together they are comedy genius both against the foil of Christopher Plummer playing a rather similar bad-guy-but-charming character to a lot of his films - Pink Panther (whichever one it was), Dreamscape etc. Some of the best lines come from Harry Morgan (famed for M*A*S*H) as their Captain.Saddled together as an unlikely pair of partners in the Police Hanks and Aykroyd stumble upon a LA-wide conspiracy involving a prominent man of the church and the Police Commissioner and a group calling themselves PAGANs - people against goodness and normalcy - and there's Connie Swail (Alexandra Paul) the hapless virgin who will be sacrificed in on of the PAGAN's rituals... and Friday and Streebeck (Aykroyd and Hanks) have to get to the bottom of it. Hilarious police procedural, witty one liners, unforgettable scenes, great stunts and car chases and great performances make up this 80s remake and homage to the original 60s series. It's not aged that well and is a little clichéd in terms of 80s films but that is the charm. Love this film - it always really makes me smile.

As soon as I heard the theme music in the opening I recognised it was a parody of a popular American TV show, I was drawn in more however by the two leads. Basically a bunch of strange robberies are taking place in Los Angeles with every single one with a card saying "PAGAN" left behind, and the nephew of the late character from the TV show, Sgt. Joe Friday (Dan Aykroyd) and his new partner Pep Streebeck (Tom Hanks) are assigned to investigate. These robberies have included a bat, a 30 feet long snake and a lion's mane from a zoo, some chemicals to create a deadly gas, and all new copies of Bait magazine for their owners, porn king Jerry Caesar (Dabney Coleman). As the two cops follow all the clues in a number of different modes of transport, because of the recent car stealing frenzy, they find out that PAGAN is a big cult organisation. The key suspect for the cult is the suspicious Reverend Jonathan Whirley (Christopher Plummer), but they can't prove anything when Captain Bill Gannon (Harry Morgan) hates them for making so many mistakes. In the end, after some chases and a bit of gun play, P.A.G.A.N. (People Against Goodness And Normalcy) is stopped, Whirley is caught red handed, Friday settles with love interest Connie Swail (Alexandra Paul), and he and Streeback are still partners. Also starring Jack O'Halloran as Emil Muzz, Elizabeth Ashley as Commissioner Jane Kirkpatrick, Kathleen Freeman as Enid Borden and Bruce Gray as Mayor Parvin. Aykroyd with his deadpan and to the book crime fighting and Hanks with his chilled and sarcastic attitude are a good duo, there are some reasonably funny moments and one-liners, but it is a little boring at times, but not a bad attempt at a spoof police drama. Okay!