Naked Gun (Wide Screen)
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Naked Gun (Wide Screen)

Production Year: 1988 - Comedy - Director: David Zucker - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over

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inspiration for a trio of cinematic hits. And this
bringing together of all three Naked Gun films
delivers, as the original series did, a belly-load
of laughs.  Each is a spoof, very much in the
spirit of the original Airplane (unsurprising, as
the same people are involved), with the focus this
time being on Leslie Nielsen's Lt Frank Drebin, a
well-meaning yet chaotic detective who, along with
George Kennedy's Capt Ed Hocken, O.J.Simpson's
Nordberg and Priscilla Presley's Jane finds
himself with crimes to solve, and nothing but
sheer ineptitude to help him.  The plot in each
movie clearly takes a back seat, as each film is
an exercise in throwing as many gags at the wall
and hoping they stick. The hit rate in the first
of the three is high enough to genuinely warrant
it being a modern day comedy classic, with clever
sight gags and more elaborate sequences keeping
the chuckle count high and constant. Neither
sequel gets close to it, but both do have their
moments too. Crucially, as none of the films
outstays its welcome, thanks to their relatively
brief running times, each emerges as an enjoyable,
joyfully silly and frequently funny comedy, set to
be enjoyed time and time again.--Simon Brew
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Considering the TV series Police Squad managed a mere six episodes, it's no small ... more
testament to its qualities that it proved the
inspiration for a trio of cinematic hits. And this
bringing together of all three Naked Gun films
delivers, as the original series did, a belly-load
of laughs.  Each is a spoof, very much in the
spirit of the original Airplane (unsurprising, as
the same people are involved), with the focus this
time being on Leslie Nielsen's Lt Frank Drebin, a
well-meaning yet chaotic detective who, along with
George Kennedy's Capt Ed Hocken, O.J.Simpson's
Nordberg and Priscilla Presley's Jane finds
himself with crimes to solve, and nothing but
sheer ineptitude to help him.  The plot in each
movie clearly takes a back seat, as each film is
an exercise in throwing as many gags at the wall
and hoping they stick. The hit rate in the first
of the three is high enough to genuinely warrant
it being a modern day comedy classic, with clever
sight gags and more elaborate sequences keeping
the chuckle count high and constant. Neither
sequel gets close to it, but both do have their
moments too. Crucially, as none of the films
outstays its welcome, thanks to their relatively
brief running times, each emerges as an enjoyable,
joyfully silly and frequently funny comedy, set to
be enjoyed time and time again.--Simon Brew
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Naked Gun  The [1989] Naked Gun The [1989]
Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker, the creative troika behind Airplane!, scored another hit with this ... more
big-screen adaptation of their short-lived
television show Police Squad!. Deadpan as ever,
Leslie Nielsen revives his TV role of Lt Frank
Drebin, the idiot with a detective's badge. The
jokes come thick and fast, gathering a momentum
that lasts until the final act. Ricardo Montalban
is a perfect foil as a villain whose aquarium is
invaded by Drebin during routine questioning, and
George Kennedy is delightful in a self-parodying
part as an earnest but obtuse lawman. There's a
hilarious bit when Drebin--wearing a live police
wire while going to the bathroom--can be overheard
over the loudspeakers at a speech given by a
flustered mayor (Nancy Marchand). And yes, that's
OJ Simpson as a detective who ends up on the wrong
side of numerous Drebin blunders. --Tom Keogh,
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Naked Gun  The [1989] Naked Gun The [1989]
Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker, the creative troika behind Airplane!, scored another hit with this ... more
big-screen adaptation of their short-lived
television show Police Squad!. Deadpan as ever,
Leslie Nielsen revives his TV role of Lt Frank
Drebin, the idiot with a detective's badge. The
jokes come thick and fast, gathering a momentum
that lasts until the final act. Ricardo Montalban
is a perfect foil as a villain whose aquarium is
invaded by Drebin during routine questioning, and
George Kennedy is delightful in a self-parodying
part as an earnest but obtuse lawman. There's a
hilarious bit when Drebin--wearing a live police
wire while going to the bathroom--can be overheard
over the loudspeakers at a speech given by a
flustered mayor (Nancy Marchand). And yes, that's
OJ Simpson as a detective who ends up on the wrong
side of numerous Drebin blunders. --Tom Keogh,
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The Complete Naked Gun Collection [1988] The Complete Naked Gun Collection [1988]
The Naked Gun series must be the only successful big-screen franchise to have been a ... more
spin-off from a spectacularly unsuccessful TV
series. Although Police Squad went on to become a
cult favourite, at the time the American TV
network was so unimpressed they only showed four
of the six episodes before cancelling it. But
Leslie Nielsen's bumbling Lt Frank Drebin just
wouldn't go away. Supported in masterly deadpan
style by George Kennedy and Priscilla Presley,
Nielsen cemented his reputation as a gifted comic
actor with The Naked Gun decades after he had
first become known as a minor Hollywood leading
man (in 1955's Forbidden Planet for example). The
first movie appeared in 1988 and spawned two
sequels that replayed exactly the same routines:
in The Naked Gun series sight gags (some of which
are worthy of the Marx Brothers, some not) combine
with excruciating puns and lots of toilet humour
to follow the same hit formula as the creators'
earlier slapstick masterpiece, Airplane. By the
third film the formula may have become more than a
little overworked, and few including the
filmmakers cared much about the increasingly
creaky scenarios, but Nielsen's easygoing idiotic
charm goes a long way towards saving the day.
There are still a lot of laughs to be found in all
three Naked Gun movies, even if some of them are
the unintentional result of seeing OJ Simpson
before notoriety overtook his budding film career.
 On the DVDs: All three features are
anamorphically enhanced 1.78:1 widescreen ratios,
with Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. Each disc also has a
jovial ensemble commentary featuring co-creator
David Zucker with other producers and writers,
which is only intermittently informative but is at
least intermittently funny, too. --Mark Walker
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Naked Gun/Airplane/Top Secret Naked Gun/Airplane/Top Secret
The Naked Gun David Zucker--of the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker creative troika behind Airplane! ... more
and television's Police Squad!--directed this 1988
feature film based on the latter show. Leslie
Nielsen returns to his old TV role of Lt. Frank
Drebin, the deadpan idiot with a detective's
badge. The reinvention of the failed series as a
theatrical feature seems to have inspired everyone
involved to make a pretty funny movie, and the
jokes gather a momentum that lasts until the final
act. Ricardo Montalban is a perfect foil as a
villain whose aquarium is being invaded by Drebin
during routine questioning, and George Kennedy is
delightful in a self-parodying part as an earnest
but obtuse lawman. There's a hilarious bit when
Drebin--wearing a live police wire while going to
the bathroom--can be overheard over the
loudspeakers at a speech given by a flustered
mayor (Nancy Marchand). Yes, that's O.J. Simpson
as a detective who ends up on the wrong side of
numerous Drebin blunders. --Tom Keogh Airplane!
The quintessential movie spoof that spawned an
entire genre of parody films, the original
Airplane! still holds up as one of the brightest
comedic gems of the '80s, not to mention of cinema
itself (it ranked in the top 5 of Entertainment
Weekly's list of the 100 funniest movies ever
made). The humour may be low and obvious at times,
but the jokes keep coming at a rapid-fire clip and
its targets--primarily the lesser lights of '70s
cinema, from disco films to star-studded disaster
epics--are more than worthy for send-up. If you've
seen even one of the overblown Airport movies then
you know the plot: the crew of a
filled-to-capacity jetliner is wiped out and it's
up to a plucky stewardess and a shell-shocked
fighter pilot to land the plane. Robert Hays and
Julie Hagerty are the heroes who have a history
that includes a meet-cute Ã  la Saturday Night
Fever, a surf scene right out of From Here to
Eternity, a Peace Corps trip to Africa to teach
the natives the benefits of Tupperware and
basketball, a war-ravaged recovery room with a
G.I. who thinks he's Ethel Merman (a hilarious
cameo)--and those are just the flashbacks! The
jokes gleefully skirt the boundaries of bad taste
(pilot Peter Graves to a juvenile cockpit visitor:
"Joey, have you ever seen a grown man naked?"),
with the high (low?) point being Hagerty's
intimate involvement with the blow-up automatic
pilot doll, but they'll have you rolling on the
floor. The film launched the careers of
collaborators Jim Abrahams (Big Business), David
Zucker (Ruthless People), and Jerry Zucker
(Ghost), as well as revitalized such B-movie
actors as Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Robert
Stack, and Leslie Nielsen, who built a second
career on films like this. A vital part of any
video collection. --Mark Englehart  Top Secret! In
between the disaster movie satire Airplane! in
1980 and the hardboiled cop show parody The Naked
Gun in 1988, the comedy crew of Jerry Zucker, Jim
Abrahams, and David Zucker put together a picture
that's almost as funny as their better-known hits.
Top Secret! sends up spy movies and cheesy teen
rock & roll musicals. Val Kilmer stars as
swivel-hipped American rocker Nick Rivers, a sort
of blonde Elvis whose secret weapon is Little
Richard's tune "Tutti Fruitti." On tour behind the
Iron Curtain, Nick strikes blows for democracy
overtly and covertly, with his music as well as
his espionage skills. In short, this is a very,
very silly motion picture. Some great gags,
including a subtitled scene in a Swedish book
shop, and an inspired bit with a Ford Pinto that
not everybody may get anymore. (The Pinto, you may
or may not recall, was notoriously prone to gas
tank explosions when rear-ended.) --Jim Emerson
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Review of Naked Gun (Wide Screen) by a-true-ben

Advantages: Funny, not mentally taxing
Disadvantages: Childish humour although the film isn't totally suitable for kids, some parts cheap/dated

...bad they're good). The Naked Gun, starring Leslie Nielson as inept cop Lt Frank Drebin, wasn't the first of these spoofs - Nielson had already made his name first in the film Airplane, and then a TV series based around the character Drebin (Police Squad). Nonetheless, Nielson's a past master in this type of cheap send-up, which is why he's gone on to appear in Spy Hard, the Scary Movie series, and 2001: A Space Travesty, and Lt. Drebin is surely ...
...of these things by now, you surely know what to expect. The plot, obviously, is a bit of a joke. Bungling cop disgraces himself and is kicked out the force, but he finds out there's going to be an assassination attempt on the queen (Elizabeth II) while she's visiting LA. What do you think happens? This movie's hardly one where you're guessing the ending, more the messes Drebin will manage to get himself into and out of en route. The humour is quite ... Read review

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Review of Naked Gun (Wide Screen) by IzzyS

Advantages: Very funny, quite witty at points, Leslie Neilson
Disadvantages: OJs in it

...seen other movies in the Naked Gun trilogy in the past and my dad used to be quite the fan, though he's seen them too many times now I believe, my mum is fed up of such movies so I watched this one in my own time lol. It was shown during the New Year holidays on TV and I decided to record it for later enjoyment, so I watched it last night and here's what its all about as well as my take on it, of course. - Main Credits (non-actors, which are mentioned ...
...main acting cast) - Naked Gun brings lieutenant Frank Drebin (played by Leslie Neilson) onto the big screen, in the first of three 'Naked Gun' movies. The character originally appeared in the TV comedy show 'Police Squad'. In this particular movie, as he tries to find out who tried to kill his friend and partner Detective Nordberg (played by OJ Simpson, yes 'that' OJ), after he tried to take down a gang of criminals who had been shipping in heroin ... Read review

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Naked Gun (Wide Screen)

Main specs

Actor(s): Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, Ricardo Montalban, O.J. Simpson, 'Weird Al' Yankovic

Director(s): David Zucker

Genre: Comedy

Classification: 15 years and over

Production Year: 1988

Running Time: 1 hour 21 minutes

Video Category: Feature Film

Plot: Lieutenant Frank Drebin, a granite-jawed, rock-brained cop, discovers a mind control scheme to murder the Queen of England. As he cracks the case wide open, he also cracks up everyone else.

Release details

DVD Region: Region 2 (Europe)

Studio(s): PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT; TECHNICOLOR DIST. SERVICES

Release date: 09/04/2001

No of Discs: 1

Catalogue No: PHE 8076

Editor: Michael Jablow

Barcode: 5014437807632

Production Designer: John Lloyd

Screenwriter: Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker

Composer: Ira Newborn

Director of Photography: Robert M. Stevens

Producer: John Lloyd, Jerry Zucker

Costume Designer: Mary E. Vogt

DVD Description

In this zany comedy, L.A. cop Lt. Frank Drebin nearly destroys the world several times over (while trying to save it) as he uncovers an insidious plot to assassinate the Queen of England during an L.A. Dodgers game.

Languages

Main Language: English

Dubbed Language: German

Subtitle Language: Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Turkish

Hearing Impaired Language: English

Technical information

Special Features: Theatrical Trailer, Group Commentary With David Zucker Robert Weiss And Peter Tilden

Aspect Ratio: 1.78 Anamorphic Wide Screen

Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital Mono

Dubbing Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Dolby Digital Mono German

Professional reviews

Review: "...High spirits may be all that a film like this really needs....[It's] impossible not to laugh..." (New York Times, p.C16, 02/12/1988)

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