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Summary: A hilarious comedy
Review: This 1988 comedy starring Leslie Nielsen is a pure blast of parody and comedy. Nielsen plays Frank Drebin, a stupid cop. But when the job has to be done, he's always there. There has been a plan made to assasinate the Queen of England and only Nielsen can stop it. But he must go deep into the organization that planned it and find out more. And as the movie progresses, Drebin continues making more and more mistakes, giving us plenty of one-liners, and makes the movie much more funnier. Comedy fans, this is a must get.
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Summary: "Frank Drebin! Police Squad!"
Review: Leslie Nielsen stars as Lieutenant Frank Drebin, the stupidest police officer since Peter Sellers dawned his moustache. Like Clouseau, Drebin is destined to catch the villain and get the girl despite his idiocy.The opening sequence sets the tone for the rest of this movie. We are shown the worlds greatest terrorists meeting together to plot against the America. The meeting is crashed by Frank Drebin who infiltrates the meeting, beats up the terrorists, and wipes the fake(!) birthmark off Gorbachev's forehead. "I never want to see any of you folks in America!" Frank bellows at the terrorists before leaving. In the wake of 9/11, it's nice to know that we've got Frank Drebin on our side. Sort of. Frank finds trouble waiting for him back in America. It seems his partner Nordberg blew a drug bust he was taking part in and is now in the hospital. Wait till you see just how Nordberg got all his injuries! Frank soon finds himself embroiled in case when he must try to foil an upcoming assassination attempt on Queen Elizabeth and expose the suave millionaire who is planning it. Further complications are aroused when Frank finds himself falling in love with the suave millionaire's secretary. Of course the plot is really just an excuse to get in some zany gags and slapstick. The beauty of ZAZ's (Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker) type of humor is in hiring serious actors to say outrageously funny lines with utmost seriousness. Leslie Nielsen was a perfect foil for their kind of humor as he delivers all their lines to deadpan perfection. Indeed, on the basis of "The Naked Gun", and "Airplane", Nielsen would go on to a second career in deadpan farce. This film has so many multilayered gags and social references that it may take several viewings to catch them all. As a result, this is one film that is just as funny the fifth time around as the first. Some of my favorite scenes; Frank going to the washroom with his mike still attached to his shirt, Frank being caught in a comprimising situation with the queen, Frank [messing] up Enrico Pallazzo's version of the national anthem, and Frank causing havoc at the baseball game. Some of my favorite lines: 1. "The doctors say his chances of living are about fifty/fifty. Although he's got only about a ten percent chance of that." 2. "I'm boiling a roast. How hot and wet do you like it?" "You certainly seem to know your way around the kitchen." 3. "It's the same old story. Boy sees girl. Boy wins girl. Boy marries girl. Girl dies in a tragic blimp accident." "Goodyear?" "No, the worst." Need I say more?
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Summary: Tne Naked Gun...Shoots 4 Stars
Review: A hit movie based on a TV show! What a concept! With all the hype of televsion shows being made into feature films, most of which have failed, here is one based on a failed and forgotten show. THE NAKED GUN based on the early 80's sitcom POLICE SQUAD, had really no built-in audience and it goes to show what great comedic writing, direction, and casting can do. Leslie Nielson has overdone this type of movie over the years (WRONGFULLY ACCUSED, SPY HARD, SPACE TRAVESTY etc...), but the NAKED GUN series and his character, Lt Frank Drebin are etched in the annals of comedic movie lore. The jokes never let up, and every character, every line, every situation are a comedic delight. Even after a musical montage (to the tune of Herman's Hermits song "Something Good")of dating sequences of Frank Drebin and Jayne (Priscilla Presley), a blurb pops up on the side of the movie screen stating the title, artist, and name of album..the movie audience are forced to believe they are watching a rock music video. This small, subtle, piece of humor is hilarious. The plot involves Lt. Frank Drebin trying to uncover and foil a plot to assassinate the visiting Queen of England and to prove that Vincent Ludwig, brilliantly played by Ricardo Montlban, is the evil man behind the plot. The assissination attempt climaxes at a baseball playoff game. It is probably one of the funniest baseball sequences ever filmed including Nielsen's Drebin aka Enrico Palazzo, singing the National Anthem, Nielsen as the home plate umpire,and a hilarious scene of tv sport announcers with Jim Palmer and Curt Gowdy hugging and crying to apologise for a pregame squabble. This movie has everything. The movie demands screenings of the failed tv show POLICE SQUAD which is just as funny. Great supporting cast with George Kennedy, OJ Simspon?!!, Priscilla Presley, Ricardo Montalban, Nancy Marchand and... Queen Elizabeth.
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Summary: The Naked Gun-Nielsen's Second Debut To Spoof, and it Rocks!
Review: When this movie came out, I think most people who knew who Leslie Nielsen was were thinking they'd seen him in just about everything. First, serious movies, then Hitchcock, then Airplane. Then they saw him for the comic geinus he was in this movie. Nielsen plays Frank Drebin, a Los Angeles cop known for his stpidity, his big mouth, and his all around good record. After returning from vacation in Beirut, he investigates the shooting of his ex-partner and best friend, Nordberg, which after an argument with a Drebin-hating dock worker, leads him to respected shipping kingpin Vincent Lidwig, as well as his female assistant, Jane Spencer, who has a romataic thing for cops. From the first, they fall for each other, even going so far as having sex in body condoms. His investigation stalls, however, when the mayor gets upset over Drebin entering Ludwig's place without a warrant and then repremands him over a year-old incident in which he mistook five actors for would-be killers and shot and killed them. After a few more complications, including losing his badge after making fools of the mayor and Queen Elizabeth II, who Ludwig plans to asassainate, at a party, Drebin catches up with him, thanks to a tip from Jane, at an Angels baseball game, where he brainwashes baseball legend Reggie Jackson to kill the Queen. If you like spoofs, this is one for the ages and nore than worth a rent.
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Summary: So many sight gags it takes repeated viewing to catch 'em!
Review: I'm not going to summarize the plot of this movie. Others have already done that. I'm just going to tell you I think it's one of the funniest films I've ever seen. I love this kind of sight gag humor. And nobody does it better than Leslie Neilsen. The Police Squad! videos are priceless TV detective show parodies. It's a pity only a handful of episodes were ever made. They're a blast to watch -- especially the end credits when the actors "freeze" yet everything else in the scene continues to move. Really dumb humor, but it gets me every time. Which is why I love this, the first of the three Naked Gun movies. They feature the same bumbling detective (Neilsen) and the same intrepid team that created the short-lived TV series. I can watch this film and laugh every time. My favorite scenes are the chalk outline floating on the water...the shoe shine guy to which Lt. Drebin palms money for information...and, well, I could name scene after scene. Naked Gun is not for everyone. Not everyone likes the rapid-fire sight gag humor that makes this movie (and The Simpsons) such a joy to behold. But if that kind of humor tickles your funny bone, Naked Gun will cause you to laugh all the way to the store to buy the other two installments.
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Summary: One of the funniest movies ever, but the DVD is flawed
Review: Everyone who has seen The Naked Gun knows this is a wonderfully funny movie, and a must-have for any comedy lover's DVD collection. However, as another reviewer has pointed out there are problems with the DVD version. Just casually watching the movie tonight on TV (after all i do own the DVD), i was astonished to find there were parts to the movie that i hadn't remembered seeing. After booting up my DVD of the movie and checking, i found that there were indeed quite a few scenes missing from the DVD version! The worst part is that they are good scenes!
For example, there are quite a few more exchanges in the absolutely hilarious "interrogation" of the low-life down at the docks. An equally funny moment is cut when Drebbin is inspecting Ludwig's apartment and somehow manages to get attacked by a dead animal rug.
Let's all make paramount feel as ashamed as they should be for being the only company with enough gall to actually put out a DVD with less material then what you would see on TV, and take the other reviewer's suggestion to not buy this DVD until they put the scenes back in!
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Summary: Nielsen/Presley/Montalban deliver belly-laughs galore!
Review: This is a rather refreshing 'new kind of comedy', with an original premise: Have a law-man who is clearly 'not with it' go on a crime-fighting spree, critically injuring innocent people as he goes, only to end up catching the bad guys (by accident or by mistake), receiving top recognition for his fine work. You must see this sort of bizzarre non-sense to believe it! -- When Police Sergeant Frank Drebin (played by Leslie Nielsen) first appeared on American TV screens back in about 1980, we weren't quite ready for the humor that came "without a cueing laugh track". A few years later "The Naked Gun" gave us another chance. This time it "took"! The one-liners and come backs in this film are hilarious, as the clumbsy Drebin "always gets his man". Pricilla Presley is wonderful as the "agent for the enemy" who soon becomes Drebin's love interest. The scenes where fellow police officer Nuremberg (played by O.J. Simpson) repeatedly gets brutally injured (to roaring laughter from the audience) have been critisized as racist. Some of the "double entendre" is a bit risque for kids, but otherwise this is fun for any age audience.
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Summary: Great Movie, But I Want The TV Version!
Review: The Naked Gun-From The Files Of Police Squad. I don't need to talk about this movie. It's great. It's non-stop laughs. It's a must see. So what's the problem? The problem's not with the movie. It's with this DVD. Don't expect to much from silly Paramount, but has anyone ever watched this on cut TV, like USA, Comedy Central, or ABC? If so, you know the cutting out and editing of scenes for a certain channel tri trims a time slot, so they replace maybe 15 minutes with deleted scenes! And very funny deleted scenes I might add. One is where Frank Drebin is seen at a gym in the shower (of the woman's bathroom). Another is where Ludwig shoots Frank in the catchers's thing (didn't anyone ever notice it deflated?) and one where Frank turns off Nordberg's air at the hospital. All these scenes are outrageous and hilariously funny, but no version except the TV one has these scenes. I'm not going to buy any Naked Gun DVD until the scene's are restored. Same with Naked Gun 2, Airplane!, and Airplane 2.
Don't by this 'till Paramount realizes we want deleted scenes! If you found my review helpful, please be sure to vote for me!
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Summary: Hysterical From Start to Finish
Review: You'll know this movie is going to be a riot from the openning sequence in which a meeting of the worlds master terrorists - including Castro, the Ayatollah and Gorbachev are folied by inept cop Frank Drebin, played with perfect deadpan expression by Leslie Nielsen, who went on to a second career starring in films like this. Drebin, from Police Squad, must try to stop the assasination of the Queen of England. Drebin is assisted by George Kennedy, a fellow cop and O.J. Simpson as detective Nordberg. Nordberg, especially is the victim of most of Drebin's foul ups and spends most of the movie being beaten or maimed (just desserts!). Ricardo Montalban stars as the construction magnate that is masterminding the dastardly plot. Nielsen's physical humor is the focus of the movie. His systematic destruction of Montalban's apartment is hilarious. But the highlight of the movie is the ending baseball sequence. and is where Nielsen shines. From his impersonation of opera tenor Enrico Polazzo (his butchering of the national anthem is a total classic) to his routine as a moonwalking showboat umpire, Nielsen is at his finest in milking laughs. The baseball game between the Mariners and Angels is the funniest baseball sequence ever filmed and funnier than any of the Major League movies. This segment features real-life baseball announcers including Dick Enberg and the great Mel Allen. When a highlight shows a baseball players head being knocked off by a fly ball, Allen delivers his classic "How About That?" while a stunned Enberg looks on, speechless. And there are real-life ball-players Jay Johnstone and Reggie Jackson, ("I must kill the Queen"). Priscilla Presley looks beautiful and shows her ability to do comedy. Although Nielsen looks much too old for her, the scenes between them work, probably due to Nielsen's boundless energy and little boy innocence. The Naked Gun series follwed the Airplane movies in a line of hits for the ZAZ team (not all of them particpated in all of the films). Although the latter two Naked Gun movies were a let-down, Naked Gun shows ZAZ at their best and this movie remains funny. Also worth noting is the TV series that inspired the Naked Gun movies - Police Squad (in color). Look for it at your video store. Underrated and very funny.
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Review: This movie will always be a favorite of mine due to how funny it was it shows th 80's was comedy's best decade. ...
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