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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 Prince Hughes
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This is possibly the closest I've ever seen a live action piece capture everything I love about Chuck Jones' cartoons. The music, the gags, the pacing, the overall aesthetic feels like everything out of the best of his work.
I can't remember the last movie I rewatched on the same day I finished it (if I ever did that at all), but man, this movie is just way too funny not to pass up another viewing with another friend of mine over Rabbit.
The sight gag with the airbags in the car/the entire climax is one of the greatest pieces of cinema ever filmed.
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I can't remember the last proper comedy I've watched recently. It might have been back near the end of April with "A Fish Called Wanda", and I have watched some shorts and films that I would consider pretty funny, but I think that was the last true and blue, straight forward comedy I sat through.
Usually I tend not to watch them because they're often the biggest pains to write reviews about and not just because I've now transcended so far up my own ass that I can't give them the time of day (though, I still long await that day to come ((probably will be the day I watch my first Terrence Malick movie)) ). But after awhile and…
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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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"Since I've been with you I've been noticing things I haven't noticed before. The birds, chirping. Morning dew - stoplights."
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Such a classic. Humor in this move is timeless and leslie nielsen is a national treasure.
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Good lord, I literally finished watching this 10 minutes ago and I want to wathc it again, so so so funny from start to finish. the visual humor is just as hilarious as the written humour, easily one of the best comedies I've ever seen. Everything is so dumb in the context of what's happening on screen but you have to be an absolute genius to come up with some of these jokes, OJ Simpson putting his foot through that door made me lose it. If you like laughing please go watch the naked gun right now. I'd put it right up there next to black dynamite.
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Realy strange to cut away from a lot of the comedy. Someone freaks out and they cut away, someone falls down the stairs and they cut away. While I sat there thinking that if they had shown it, I most definitely would have laughed. Like, it was a great idea. Comedy well placed, but done off screen. It was underwhelming comedy in that way, yet I was waking the household at other jokes done in the film; just hollowing at certain parts here. So, I dig this style of comedy and storytelling, yet critical of the areas of weakness I spot. Ways I would have possibly executed the same joke differently.
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Hilarious spoof in the mould of Airplane with Leslie Nielsen the stand out. So many memorable moments which have stood the test of time unlike many other comedies. Thankfully the film continues the quality of the Police Squad TV series. The slapstick moments are the only less funny parts. Nice beaver.
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It’s so lowbrow it’s a mustache, but this movie was absolutely worth the $20 it cost to make.
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Most of the jokes hit and I love the recurring gags. This one really picks up in the third act at the baseball game. I was cracking up at the pattern of patting down the players while still passing himself off as an umpire.
I wish they still made these relentlessly goofy visual-gag comedies. A bygone relic, I guess.
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