Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will be taking home
entertainment audience for a fun spin on the streets of Los Angeles on June 27
with the DVD and Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack debut of actor/writer/director Dax
Shepard’s CHiPs.
The ARR comes in at 95 days and box office receipts
currently stand at $18.4 million.
It’s bad news for the California Highway Patrol as someone
on the inside is knocking off armored cars in Southern California and the FBI
needs to get an undercover agent in there to crack the case. Selected for the job is none other than
Francis Llewellyn “Ponch’ Poncherello (played by Michael Peña — The
Martian, End of Watch, World Trade Center, etc.), who is “transferred”
to the CHP to be on inside — perhaps as something of a punishment for shooting
his own partner in a hostage situation (but that’s another story).
Meanwhile, top motocross pro Jon Baker (played by Shepard —
as Crosby on the Parenthood, plus writer/director and co-starring with his wife,
Kristen Bell, in the 2012 comedy Hit & Run) has been forced into
retirement — one too many bone-breaking accidents — and has managed to land a
job at the CHP as a rookie. He needs
the money.
Now Baker can ride (perhaps not the way the CHP would like
him to), he’s none too bright and his trophy bride (played by Kristen Bell) has
kicked him to the curb because all of that sponsorship money has gone south,
which makes him the perfect street partner for Ponch!
These two — Ponch and Baker — are not who you would like to
respond to any accident you might be involved in. Ponch’s focus is elsewhere and Baker is
basically a man-child with no focus at all.
And yet, somehow, they must solve the mystery of who within the
department is staging the armored car heists.
That’s going to be quite a challenge (on many fronts), especially since
their standard issued rides can’t keep up with the bandits (that’s where Baker
will actually shine)!
The only bonus goodie common to both SKUs is the featurette
titled “This is Not Your Dad’s
Exclusive to the Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack edition are commentary by Dax
Shepard, deleted scenes (which were likely culled from the film to avoid an
NC-17 rating … even at that CHiPs can be pretty crude in places
as Shepard’s character seems to know no bounds) and two additional featurettes
— “Practical Pursuit” and “Ducati: The Perfect Bike.”
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