Dragnet was one of those movies that had a good cast but was at least somewhat disappointing. I gave it a slightly more than average rating mainly because of Dan Aykroyd's spot-on tribute (of sorts) to Jack Webb who of course, was the actor who was the focal point of the TV series. Some of the dialogue for Dan's character, who if I remember correctly is supposed to be the grandson of Jack's character, is quite funny the majority of the time. It's the rest of the writing that falls quite short-and I'd love to have been at the meeting when they decided the name of Tom Hanks' role in the movie-Pep Streebeck? Tom does a good job despite the ridiculous name, but actors like Dabney Coleman are stuck in a beyond silly plot. Oh well-the music video that was put together from the movie and run on MTV back when that was watchable wasn't too bad.
