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The Villain. Even Mother Teresa wanted him dead.
When the incompetent Officer Frank Drebin seeks the ruthless killer of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth.
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
1988 Directed by David Zucker
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Leslie Nielsen Priscilla Presley Ricardo Montalban George Kennedy O.J. Simpson Susan Beaubian Nancy Marchand Raye Birk Jeannette Charles Ed Williams Tiny Ron Taylor 'Weird Al' Yankovic Tom Dugan Joyce Brothers Lawrence Tierney Reggie Jackson Dick Enberg Mel Allen Dick Vitale Jesse Ventura John Houseman Mark Holton
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The Naked Gun, Police Squad!, Mannen med den nakna pistolen, Bláznivá strela - Z archívu policajného oddelenia, Corra Que a Polícia Vem Aí, La Pistola Desnuda
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“I’ve got nine more” is one of THE funniest lines. As a diehard Airplane! fan I can’t believe it took this long to watch this.
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"Just think...the next time I shoot someone, I could be arrested."
Gets funnier every time I see it.
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I'd known her for years. We used to go to all the police functions together. Ah, how I loved her. But she had her music. At least, I think she had her music. She'd hang out with the Chicago Male Chorus and Symphony. I don't recall her playing an instrument, or being able to carry a tune. Yet she was on the road 300 days of the year. In fact, I bought her a harp for Christmas. She asked me what it was...
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"Goodyear?" "No, the worst."
Unless someone out there wants to go to bat for Austin Powers, this is the last truly great, truly silly mainstream film comedy, with a deadpan heart and a slapstick soul. But on top of all that, there's an almost cathartic anti-authoritarian edge here, intentional or not, showing the adventures of an entitled idiot who causes havoc and disaster wherever he goes, only to be celebrated and commemorated for it because he's a cop. Thank God it's only a movie.
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Isolation comfort movie.
"Hey, it's Enrico Pallazzo!" might make me laugh more than any other line in cinema. Don't know why.
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Airplane! is one of my favorite comedies of all time, so it was no surprise that I ended up loving The Naked Gun as much as I did. It has all the same hilariously bad Dad-joke puns ("Goodyear?" / "No, the worst.") and masochistic slapstick (a man gets shot and then stumbles around incurring a series of much more minor injuries) that made me fall in love with Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker's masterpiece. There's an extended joke about Drebin going to the bathroom with his mic still on that had me rolling my eyes, but if anything this is just a testament to the way Zucker is willing to throw everything at the wall to see what sticks (there's so much background detail…
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4 stars alone for the smile Drebin gets when he realizes he can be a star umpire.
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Unironically deserves a Criterion release. And they might as well do the whole trilogy while they’re at it.
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A dazzlingly irreverent comedy. There's a transmissible sense of enjoyment which materialises from the late Canadian born Leslie Nielsen in this David Zucker directed comedy based on the character Frank Drebin, who Nielsen portrayed in the ABC television series Police Squad! which was terminated after just four of its six episodes were broadcasted in 1982. It starts energetically and refuses to take a breath throughout it's 85-minute runtime as Drebin generates repeated catastrophes and delivers his lines with straight-faced perfection.
The plot to prevent an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II by Fantasy Island actor Ricardo Montalbán, the original television series not the atrocious Jeff Wadlow reimagining, is absurdly ridiculous, and Montalbán is evidently taking great pleasure playing the deceitful…
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Doesn't get better than "Naked Gun",
From each one-liner to every pun.
Nielsen carries the load,
In "Airplane" mode,
Which is always a ton of fun. -
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