The Mod Squad

There are only two possible reactions to the film version of The Mod Squad: Either you hate it or you really hate it.

Whatever countercultural kick the original Mod Squad had going for it, it has long since faded like a favorite pair of blue jeans, the kind you remember fondly but wouldn't dream of wearing again.

The film's resolute failure is clearly a group effort requiring not just an awful script and flat-footed direction, but also terrible acting, an intrusive and derivative score, and a plot that seems to have been lifted from an unproduced Baretta teleplay.

...a reasonable-enough premise that’s employed to mostly underwhelming and uninvolving effect by Silver...