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…

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…

Spawned from the short-lived, too-far-ahead-of-its-time American television show Police Squad, the Naked Gun series of films follow the exploits of a Lieutenant Detective Frank Drebin. Drebin is a bumbling, daft police detective always seems to be in the right time do (accidentally) perform whatever feats are necessary to solve any given case.

In this first film, Drebin, played by the perfectly-cast Leslie Nielsen, eventually uncovers a terrorist plot that involves killing Great Britain's Queen Elizabeth II during her visit to Los Angeles. To say any more would ruin the fun for those who haven't seen the film. The plot is simple, but the fun in these films is watching Drebin's ineptitude somehow work in his favor.

This is a film…