Many movies from America did not go us in the Czechoslovakia before 1989. One of the movies we couldn't enjoy was Cop in Beverly Hills, which was made 40 years ago. It came to the Czech Republic and Slovakia only through television, when the legendary dubbing team headed by Oldřich Kaiser was created for it in 1992.
The last installment of the original trilogy went to cinemas (I think in America) after ten years after the first one and to us o Czech two years after the first one, i.e. 1994 still with the best dubbing (Oldřich Kaiser) of the main character.
Over the years, we've been able to choose different dubs for all three parts of the trilogy, but Oldřich Kaiser is the most suitable for the main character of the very talkative cop, even though he didn't dub him in the second part. That's mainly because the CT dub, for which Oldrich Kaiser began dubbing, wasn't created until 2002, when Kaiser simply wasn't dubbing anymore and simply didn't want to.
After 30 years since the last episode, the producers decided to bring the famously garrulous icon back to Beverly Hills. Not that they hadn't been planning for decades from now, but it wasn't until this year that it came to fruition. A lot of writers changed hands on the script. Few directors were replaced either, and so Black Peter's much-delayed sequel was given to Netflix, which is looking for successful creators, successful series to expand its hit list.
For this year's seniors, the main character, Axel Foley, returned this time with dubbed by Martin Dejdar. Not that it was a win, Eddie Murphy has multiple better dubbers, but perhaps for the production dubbers, the famous "Bart" was the most fitting. Maybe he even won the audition, who knows.
And now for something about the story. By now, Axel Foley is almost retired, so of course he has children. Or rather, one daughter, who has a legal career in Beverly Hills. She gets involved where she shouldn't, and so her "chatty" father comes to her rescue. Of course, there's drugs, a cartel, and corrupt cops. They're at each other's throats and the only ones who help them are the old gang of detectives John Taggart and Judge Reinhold, who are showing their age, and newcomer Bobby Abbott, who used to date Jane Foley before she dumped him for the reason that he's a "cop".
The main bad guy is played by Kevin Bacon, for whom this is the xth bad guy. With Kevin, it's pretty obvious that he has not only the voice but also the charisma to play the main characters' adversaries.
It's all about Axel and his daughter and Eddie Murphy plays the same character with the same chatty mannerisms His age doesn't show, either he has the genes for a youthful appearance or he's been helped by expensive plastic surgery. But he is one of those actors who doesn't look over 60.
His court recorders on the "Cop in Beverly Hills" series no longer deny their age. Judge Reinhold is already urging his age with sculptures, it shows, and John Ashton is 76, a so he really is old hat. They're already making fun of his age when he doesn't deserve it.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the newcomer to this tetralogy, makes a good-natured "dork" of his police officer at times, when, although he is originally a helicopter pilot for the famous LAPD Air Support Division, we learn him that, in fact, the only thing he knows how to do is be a cop, that he can't fly.
It might not have hurt the films to have a little shorter running time. Omit the opening of the robbery right in Detroit during a hockey game. Jump straight into the action in "billionaire" city.
The road to victory against the bad cops is a thorny one, but of course Axel Foley talks everyone down, saves and wins, and where does the action end? In a lavish mansion full of armed agents and mobsters, of course.
What I also loved about the film. The film is full on 80s s not only with references to pop culture, but also to the characters around Axel in the first two episodes
Rating: 70 %
