I gotta say, yes this movie has a weird and slightly cheesy premise, but this is totally a candy movie for me! I love when movies embrace their premise and all the actors really show that they embraced it as well. Jeff bridges and Ryan Reynolds have great chemistry and I laughed a lot during their interactions. The movie was exciting and funny and interesting in this unique idea - I really enjoyed it! Not every movie needs to be this profound, dramatic 'work of art', sometimes you just want to watch a fun movie with great acting and chemistry between actors and something unique that you haven't seen before - that's exactly what you get with this one. All in all, cheesy in parts, but definitely funny and interesting with great chemistry between all the actors. Definitely recommend this one!

I wanted to give RIPD chance, I really did. But it's such a shameless ripoff of Men In Black that most of it just constituted one big eye roll from me. It's not an outright knockoff, but it just uses the unmistakable blueprint of MIB and runs with it as if it were it's own organic idea. The veteran wiseass, the young hotshot, the clandestine otherworldly law enforcement syndicate, googly, goopy special effects, it's all there and just feels stale these days, but for a few saving graces. Jeff Bridges is an undeniable charmer as Roy, an undead wild west super cop who is tasked with retrieving runaway souls hiding out down on earth, and capturing them for return to the great beyond, here pictured as the penultimate vision of nightmarish beaurocracy that seems oddly derived from Beetlejuice (huh). When Boston cop Ryan Reynolds is betrayed and murdered by his corrupt scumbag of a partner (a skeezy Kevin Bacon) he's recruited by Proctor (Mary Louise Parker, all business and loving it) to join Roy in bringing "deados" back upstairs. The two don't get along, as newly paired cops in movies always behave, and the banter only really works from Bridges's side. He's a hoot as crotchety old Roy, while Reynolds plays it a bit too serious, especially in scenes with the wife he left behind (Stephanie Szostak). The film earns it's one inspired subplot when we see the human avatars the pair use to move about the earthly plane: Bridges is a knockout blonde chick (Marissa Miller), and Reynolds an elderly Chinese man played by the seemingly immortal James Hong. If they spent more time on terrifically funny ideas with potential like that and less on special effects that look like something out of the Garbage Pail Kids, they might have been on to something worthwhile. But alas, most of the film is spent on a whirlwind of silly slapstick and big gross weird things that are in no way engaging. There's a few slap dash deado hunts, including a brief turn from Robert Knepper as one that is lured out of hiding with Chinese food (what in the..), and a big sky vortex yawner of a finale where evil Bacon tries to wreak havoc on earth. Most of the time it's just a snooze though, save for the few times the clouds part and we get something fresh, usually from either Bridges or those to damned hilarious avatars. Shame.

Back when I first saw "Men in Black," I wondered what it would be like if Jay and Kay had to go up against ghosts, zombies, vampires and other paranormal entities. This is not that movie except superficially. Ryan Reynolds plays a police officer who is struck down in the line of combat, but in some sort of almost "Beetlejuice" arrangement, he has to police the world's ghosts before he can cross over. Jeff Bridges is his partner, a former Wild West sheriff, and they can only appear on Earth "Quantum Leap" style as their human hosts, an elderly Chinese man and a stunningly attractive statuesque blonde. If you've watched this far, you've realized it's already more convoluted than "Quantum Leap" and less entertaining or creative than "Beetlejuice." Now, I know "R.I.P.D." is based on a more successful comic book, but maybe more effort should have been put on the script than the special effects. It has a few funny moments, several gross scenes and tries to be exciting, but the only good part is the repartee between Bridges and Reynolds. Kevin Bacon is annoyingly tedious, there are numerous moments that just don't make sense much less feel as if they belong in the movie and some moments seem almost incoherently tagged on (a house that looks normal but is actually condemned??) Even Reynolds own pining for his wife feels stolen from "Spawn." Bottom line, this movie could have been streamlined to a much more tightly and coherent flick. "MIB" had much better acting, writing, visual gags and a stronger concept based on the extraterrestrial phenomenon. For "R.I.P.D." to have worked on a "Beetlejuice" level, it would have been better to have some concepts viewers would have recognized without knowing the comic books.

Please make a TV series out of this movie. I love this type of movies. I loved it, characters were awesome, just the whole movie I loved. I would definitely watch this if you made it into a movie series. I love the actors, the story was great. I love watching these types of movies with these half human half creature like. It reminds of Grimm. I love watching Grimm, but I also love the comedy of this movie. The first time I seen this movie I really thought it was a TV series, I was telling my family please record this because I did not want to miss any episodes, but then a couple weeks went by and then I realized it was a movie not a TV series. So like I said I would love to see this movie turn into a TV series, I can't say it enough, please make a TV series out of this movie and I would definitely watch every single episode!!!! TV series please, TV series please......