Bobby (Jesse Ventura) and Rick (Roddy Piper) are tagteam wrestlers on the way of winning their first championship - when the trophy wife (Shannon Tweed) of their boss (Mark Lonow) sees that they are fired and barred from the sport forever. So after trying themselves out in various jobs, and usually failing, they stop a supermarket robbery and decide to become cops.

Their first assignment after passing the police academy with flying colours is to give witness protection to dog walker Rita (Jennifer Runyon), who has witnessed the brutal murder of two undercover officers. And even though their two more experienced partners on the job end up being knocked out and Bobby and Rick manage to save Rita's life ... she gives them the slip in a panic, and the two are suspended from the job. But they feel an obligation to both their job and to Rita, and they manage to track her down in no time and deliver her to the courthouse - in the front of which they are greeted by a gang of assassins, but they knock them out in no time and deliver Rita just in time for the trial ...

Quite obviously intended as a pilot episode, and allegedly the promised 13 episodes run was never realized due to legal issues of production company Carolco that had nothing to do with the series, it stands to debate (from the audience's side of view) whether it was a good or bad thing to never have seen more of Tagteam. Now on the plus side, this pilot doesn't take itself too seriously (some scenes are actually very hilarious), and even though the two pro-wrestler leads are a bit wooden in some scenes, they are in on the joke, have some good one-liners and good delivery on the other. And Jesse Ventura and Roddy Piper have undeniable chemistry between them, which makes them work as co-leads. On the downside though, the show's premise (ex-wrestlers doing police work every now and again falling back into their own ways) doesn't seem too interesting for a full 13 episode run, and while the comedy in this one was good, the crime plot was paper-thin, and the fight scenes (outside the ring) all look a bit too much like sloppily choreographed wrestling matches (which essentially they are) to really convince - so basically, this is a pilot you'll probably like more than you expected it to - but I wonder if even you could imagine it as a series ...

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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