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

Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

wes-connors The DVD sleeve explains the premise: "Three problem teens are headed for jail," and are "set to do time until Captain Greer offers them a deal to work for him - undercover." The film opens with definitions of the words "Mod" and "Squad", so you won't have to look them up in the dictionary. For a visual definition of "Cool", search for photographs of the original threesome: Michael Cole (as Pete Cochran), Clarence Williams III (as Linc Hayes), and Peggy Lipton (as Julie Barnes). One black. One white. One blonde. Once they defined cool.The three who make up Scott Silver's version of Aaron Spelling's "The Mod Squad" are twentysomethings: Claire Danes (as Julie Barnes), Giovanni Ribisi (as Pete Cochran), and Omar Epps (as Linc Hayes). They aren't able to do much with the material given. Mr. Ribisi's portrayal is the most "far out", meaning he digresses most from the original characterization. Ms. Danes romances Josh Brolin (as Billy Waites), who looks like he could be in a re-make of "Marcus Welby, MD". You won't believe hefty Michael Lerner dancing with Mr. Epps' "Linc". He explains, "I'm not a fairy, I just like to dance!" and requests, "Spin me!" *** The Mod Squad (1999) Scott Silver ~ Claire Danes, Giovanni Ribisi, Omar Epps

debk1223 I watched this movie for the first time the other day and was bored to tears. I guess I just was looking for some flashback to the wonderful series that I remembered. I watched The Mod Squad television show religiously back in the day and it was fantastic. It was action packed and the relationship the 3 had with Greer was endearing. There wasn't any of that here. When Greer was murdered you get the idea that these 3 could have cared less. The actor who portrayed Pete is a really good actor but they wrote his part like he was mentally challenged. Pete in the television series was quiet and serious but had a funny side also. They had this guy acting like he was either on drugs on the time, drunk or just plain ignorant. I wouldn't recommend this movie at all. Especially if you were a fan of the TV series. It will be a complete letdown.

bob the moo Captain Adam Greer recruits three juvenile delinquents, Linc, Julie and Peter, for undercover work to bust a drug ring. He sees the potential in using their skills to fight crime rather than being part of it. When Greer is murdered, the three are cut loose but decide to investigate the killing themselves. As they begin to dig they find a much more complicated conspiracy that they could have imagined, involving criminals as well as dirty cops.I don't even think that this film managed to even get a cinema release in the UK, so bad was the box office for it in the US. If it was released then I totally missed it - although I really don't think I would have bothered with it even if it had played on the biggest screens in the biggest cinemas. Summers recently have had more than their fair share of TV remakes and retro shows - Charlie's Angels and Starsky & Hutch to name two as examples. What made this one flop was that Mod Squad as a film lacks fun, spark, invention and wit. The plot is clichéd - to the point that even the characters start to make jokes about how clichéd it all seems (`I feel one of us should be saying we are too old for this sh*t' one says at one point). However, the plot isn't the problem - look at Charlie's Angels, it has zero plot yet it made enough money to made a sequel!It is the lack of fun etc that exposes the plot to scrutiny that it can't stand up to. I was surprised by just how uninspired the whole thing was: it had a cool cast, cool music and the potential for tongue in cheek snappy action. However everything it did really just came across as ordinary - certainly `fun' is not a word I would use to describe it, maybe `passable' would be more appropriate. The music is cool and the direction is slick but sadly this doesn't make it come across as swish and stylish - more superficial.The cool cast offer promise but only deliver disappointment. Danes is sexy and that is all she is used for, posing in panties and that's about it. Ribisi is a good actor and seems to enjoy himself here, but he isn't as much fun to watch as he thinks and he can't carry the can himself. Epps is a good looking guy and I like his films, but I am not so blind to know a bad performance when I see it. Seemingly at a loss as to what the film is meant to do, he mumbles his way through with an instantly forgettable performance. The support cast is quite good on paper but can't lift this film - Farina, Brolin and a few others all add recognisable faces but that's about it.Overall this is not as awful as people say: I think some reviewers here have been influenced by the witch hunt launched by some professional critics - everyone needs something to hate and occasionally this turns a poor movie into `the worst movie ever!' (see also Gigli). However, this film is weak no matter how kind you are. It's plot is lame, it's script full of clunky dialogue and the product uninspiring and dull. The cast, music and direction are all cool superficially but it still a weak film that feels like the makers just assumed that a film remake of a 70's tv show would just make money by itself - they were wrong.

MovieAddict2016 60s and 70s television show remakes are everywhere. "Charlie's Angels" and "Starsky and Hutch" are just two of the more profitable franchises (the latter of the two bringing in $28 million in its first week). But both of those series tend to have fun with what they're parodying, rather than remaking. "The Mod Squad" is basically just a remake of the show of the same title, minus any real sort of substance and humor, and only a low amount of actual fun. It could have been a blast, but it's just rather mediocre.Three young delinquents (Claire Danes, Giovanni Ribisi and Omar Epps) are recruited by a cop (Dennis Farina) to infiltrate many various operations (prostitute rings, drug circles) that police could never get into. But after their boss is murdered and they uncover a conspiracy, the three delinquents take it upon themselves to find out the truth behind the crime.2.5/5 stars.John UlmerThe plot is pretty weak, even for a 60s TV show remake. "The Mod Squad" ran from 1968 - 1973, with somewhere in the vicinity of 120 episodes. I never saw any, but I can't imagine this film adaptation does the show much justice.The cast is considerably OK. Danes is quite enthusiastic and pretty enough for her sweet-blonde role, Ribisi is fine as a criminal and Epps is decent enough, too. Farina ("Get Shorty," "Another Stakeout") is a good actor, always very funny, but here his role is completely wasted (literally!) and short on the sort of sly humor that would have been appropriate given the actor behind it. The dialogue is really corny, and so are the characters' actions. Television shows need not worry about smart dialogue or characters, because they're usually 30 minutes long (sometimes an hour), and we just get "hooked" on what's going on. Can you imagine if a soap opera made its way onto the big screen? It'd completely flop. People watch television shows because they like to see continuous stories with recurring characters they learn to love over a certain time period.You can't get any joy out of watching a bunch of actors try to grow on you for 90 minutes. If "Alias" had ever started out as a big-screen movie, it might have flopped, because let's face it: the show is not exactly quality material. People watch it because they get hooked on it, and they enjoy watching the stories and the revelations, like an old woman addicted to her "General Hospital" episodes.So here's proof that if "The Mod Squad" had originally been a movie, there probably would have been no television show. Despite some rather bad word-of-mouth, this movie isn't a terrible one. I've seen much worse, and compared to big-screen disasters like "Freddy Got Fingered," or low-budget ones like "The Blade Master," this is nothing very laughable at all.But compared to the fun factor of "Charlie's Angels" or "Starsky and Hutch," "The Mod Squad" falls flat on its face. It's not very funny, it's not very fun, and it's not very original. It's a cash-in, which is something Hollywood is not in short supply of right now. If you miss "The Mod Squad," you're not missing anything that hasn't been done before.