Monday, April 10, 2017

Chips

DIRECTOR: Dax Shepard  STARRING: Dax Shepard, Michael Peňa, Vincent D’Onofrio, Adam Brody, Rosa Salazar, Vida Guerra, Kristen Bell  PRODUCER: Ravi D. Mehta, Dax Shepard, Andrew Panay, Rick Rosner  SCREENWRITER: Theodore Melfi, Allison Schroeder  BASED ON: Chips by Rick Rosner  MUSIC: Fil Eisler  CINEMATOGRAPHER: Mitchell Amundsen  EDITOR: Dan Lebental  GENRE:  Action Comedy  PRODUCTION COMPANY: Primate Pictures, Panay Films, RatPac-Dune Entertainment  DISTRIBUTOR: Warner Bros. Pictures  COUNTRY:  United States  LANGUAGE: English  RUNNING TIME: 101 minutes
Technical assessment:  3
Moral assessment:  2
CINEMA rating:  V18
MTRCB rating:  R16
A former biker, Jon Baker (Dax Shepard) and an FBI undercover agent, Frank "Ponch" Poncherello, joins the California Highway Patrol for different reasons. Jon aims to make things right in his life especially his marriage while Ponch is investigating on an anomaly inside the CHP. As they both try to focus on their goals, they clash rather than unite when they were partnered for duty and to catch the bad guys.  The Catholic News Service of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops classifies Chips as “O”, morally offensive.  Topics for discussion include failed marriages, Highway Patrol, second chances, sex addiction, friendship, perseverance at work, homosexuality, homophobia, masturbation, sex-objectification of women, etc.