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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 ... Read review
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big-screen adaptation of their short-lived television showPolice Squad!. Deadpan as ever, Leslie Nielsen revives his TV role of Lt Frank Drebin, the idiot with a ...
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Police Squad's own granite-jawed, rock-brained cop Frank Drebin, who bumbles across a mind-control scheme to assassinate Queen Elizabeth. Priscilla Presley, O.J. Simpson, a stuffed beaver, two baseball teams and an odd assortment of others join the wacko goings-on and blow the laugh-o-meter to smithereens.Naked Gun 2 1/2 The Smell Of FearLt Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) loves a mystery. Why are we here? Is there life after sex? Yes, Drebin tackles the big issues - and the biggest of all is how to stop devious Quentin Harpsburg's (Robert Goulet) plan to destroy the environment!Returning with Nielsen in this hilarious Naked Gun sequel are Priscilla Presley as Jane, the woman who can melt a cheese sandwich from 20 paces, and George Kennedy as intrepid Capt. Ed Hocken. The gang's all here. And so are the laughs. Like Drebin, you're gonna love it!Naked Gun 33 1/3 The Final InsultOscar night. Who will win? Who will lose? And will someone please kick that numbskull off stage? Wait! That's no ordinary numbskull. That's Lt Frank Drebin, crashing the ceremonies to stop a terrorist plot that could mean curtains for him - or will a simple window shade be enough?Yes, back for a hilarious threepeat and a state-of-the-art advance in sequel numbering are the filmmakers you love, the returning stars you adore, plus others getting Naked for the first time: Fred Ward, Anna Nicole Smith and more folks you'd happily give your seat to on a crowded bus. The fun begins when... oops, we don't want to give away the gags. No, you'll have to pay for them. You'll be glad you did!
Comedy - Director: Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Carol Cleveland, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones
Comedy - Director: Richard Boden, Mandie Fletcher, Martin Shardlow - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Hugh Laurie, Miranda Richardson, Stephen Fry, Brian Blessed, Tim McInnerny, Tony Robinson, Rowan Atkinson
Production Year: 2004 - Comedy - Director: John Hay - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jimi Mistry, Kate Miles, Dougray Scott
Comedy - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring: Tessa Peake-Jones, Buster Merryfield, David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst
Advantages: Funny, not mentally taxing Disadvantages: Childish humour although the film isn't totally suitable for kids, some parts cheap/dated
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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 ... ...seen hundreds 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. more
These days, it seems spoofing old films is only one step above outright remaking them for lazy Hollywoods directors/writers. Why go to all the trouble of coming up with an original premise, when you can re-hash a familiar plot/genre, using all the clichés, and claim that's part of the point. Sometimes it's hard to tell whether films are simply generic and bad or intentionally ironic (or just so 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 one of his most famous appearances.
Having seen hundreds 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 simple and - the sexual stuff aside - often childish. Drebin seems to have a reverse Midas touch, that makes everything he touch go wrong, almost like Mr Bean. Every single time a car comes to a stop, it always over runs and hits some/thing. Some people are just subjected to more and more punishment, almost Bottom-style, except always seemingly unintentionally.
Some of the humour is visual, like the couple both wearing huge person-sized condoms, other parts based on word play (puns or witty one-liners). While some jokes are so old (or bad) as to raise only a wry smile, others are stilly very funny, and even more so when one knows what's coming. I thought some of it almost beneath me to laugh out, now I'm supposedly grown up, but I'm sure there'll be something that will make you laugh, even if it's in spite of yourself - the film barely lets up.
Beyond that, there's not too much point critiquing the rest of the film. I could, for example, talk about the effects. It's true, there are car chases, explosion, and various other stunts - but while IMDb reveals one flying body is "obviously a dummy" that doesn't matter. You know it's not real, and when it shows that somehow makes it work even better. Similarly, the acting's all you'd expect but no more; never going to win an Oscar.
All I really wanted to know, after recently buying the film on DVD, not having seen it in years was whether I'd still find it funny. I thought I might have 'grown out of it', but I'm happy to say that's not the case. While I like to think I can appreciate more sophisticated things, sometimes at the end of a long day mindless fun and childish humour is just what's called for, to make you laugh without having to engage brain.
The one thing I would say is that while the humour hasn't dated much - slapstick is always the same - some of the characters and events have. Queen Liz looks obviously much younger then than now (though she's obviously played by an actress, not her actual majesty of course). One day, no doubt, she'll seem as odd as the negotiations between Gorbachev, Arafat, Khadafi and Idi Amin at the start. But as long as you recognise them, it doesn't matter that they're no longer 'current' - the humour's still the same, while the idea of a terrorist plot is possibly more relevant than ever.
The one thing that really surprised me about the movie was that it's a fifteen. True, it was almost 20 years ago, and true the UK rating is higher than most (USA PG-13, Germany 12). Personally, I'd say the sexual content might warrant a 12, but while some of it will go over the head of younger kids I think many of them would find this movie hilarious. As I've said several times, a lot of it is pretty childish.
Even so, it's a movie I still find funny today.
Boring bits: Rating: 15 UK (some sex and comedy injuries, but I think this is too high - see above) Duration: 85 mins Courtesy of http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0095705/
For the DVD, I paid just £4.99 on CD-wow (and had a voucher off that). Well worth it.
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 ...
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==Naked Gun Film Only Review== I was not expecting much from this film and thought it was going to be rubbish but I was surprised at how funny it was. Although I have the DVD this is a film only review as I have not watched the special features. Leslie Nielsen plays the incompetent cop in this movie but somehow ends up saving the day (I thought this was actually quite similar to the Pink Panther in that way.) He ends up finding out about a plot to ... ...moments and he meets a woman who is his girlfriends. The whole film is completely stupid including the plot but somehow while being daft and stupid is still very funny! The jokes are sort of clever but also stupid. A classic one is "Wilma, I promise you; whatever scum did this, not one man on this force will rest one minute before until he's behind bars. Now, let's grab a bite to eat" Another really funny moment is in the credits where you see his ...
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One of my early memories as a child was the huge poster in the local video shop window of The NakedGun with a picture of a rather old looking, grey haired James Bond-esque character on the front. I more vividly remember my mum taking the extreme micky out of the fact that I pronounced it the "knackered" gun. Little did I know that my Dad would later drill the trilogy of the films into my upbringing as well as the classic that everyone knows from the same writers (Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker), 'Airplane'.
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Advantages: very funny script, funny actors Disadvantages: not as good as the first two films
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The two lead female roles are filled by the very pretty Priscilla Presley and the recently deceased Anna Nicole Smith. They both serve to add a bit of a sexier look to the film and both play the romantic interests. Although both women are in the film to give it a bit of sex appeal they both suit the roles they are playing and this also helps make it a funny film.
This is the third film in the Nakedgun series and although it isn?t as good as the first two films it is still very funny. I find all films with Leslie Nielsen to be very funny. It last for just 83 minutes and the laughs don?t seem to stop all the way through it. It is a very funny film that i think everyone should watch. ...
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This film sees the return of the bumbling Lt. Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) who this time must deal with a group of energy suppliers who wish to silence the views of scientist, Dr Albert S Meinheimer (Richard Griffiths), who has radical ideas in his report on proposed energy supply for the future. This nefarious plan is being led by Quentin Hapsburg (Robert Goulet) who replaces Dr Meinheimer with a doppelganger. Frank?s old flame, Jane Spencer (Priscilla Presley) returns as Dr Meinheimer?s secretary. It is up to the incompetent Frank to try and save the day.
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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.
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DVD
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PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT; TECHNICOLOR DIST. SERVICES
Theatrical Trailer, Group Commentary With David Zucker Robert Weiss And Peter Tilden
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1.78 Anamorphic Wide Screen
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Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital Mono
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Dolby Digital 5.1 English Dolby Digital Mono German
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"...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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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.
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