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…

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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Must I say that I absolutely adore this movie? Given that it is my second favorite film of all time and I die laughing each time I say it, I think I can answer my own question. I know that not everyone agrees with me on this. Most people think Airplane is better. And I absolutely love Airplane. But I prefer this. Why? Because this time I laughed so hard that I got the hiccups. And this is my 7th watch! That’s why.

I don’t have much to say here, so I’m just going to go with the basics. Is this a well made movie? Not really is the answer. Do I care? The answer is I couldn’t care…

The real question that The Naked Gun poses is not why it's one of the funniest spoofs ever made, but why virtually no subsequent movie in this genre has been any good at all. I used to adore this sort of movie when I was a kid – “Airplane!”, “Top Secret”, and the six-episode "Police Squad" show, which became the basis for the Naked Gun series, were among the funniest films I knew. When I first saw The Naked Gun on VHS when I was ten, I was in uncontrollable laughter for the first few minutes. That was my standard of great humor at the time.

But the following decades gave us a variety of similar spoof films, some of…

A rowdy blend of parody, pun, and sight gag, David Zucker's "The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad" offers wall-to-wall goofiness. Following Leslie Nielsen's intrepid Frank Drebin as he works to foil an assassination plot against the Queen of England, the film is silly, sometimes smart, and often hilarious. It generates all the raucous laughter an audience would expect from the filmmakers behind "Airplane!"

Gleefully skewering the politics and policies of the late 1980s, "The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad" takes its story of police work and romance and pumps it full of comic mayhem. It is the kind of blink-and-you'll-miss-something-funny affair whose story is secondary to the worthy collection of laughs; that story, however,…

The Naked Gun is a movie of its time. Its protagonist bumbles his way through his job as a cop and somehow manages to get the job done - and resulting acclaim - at the end of it all. Its humor too, centered largely on slapstick that hardly anyone does today anymore, is also of its time. But the film serves up enough background jokes to satisfy comic nerds.

While character-based humor is not what one would immediately look for here, Leslie Nielsen's charms as a classic James Bond stand-in work well throughout the film enough so, that outside the requisite physical comedy, he lends just enough notes of restrained pain to his love interest while talking about a past…