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Summary: Hilarious film
Review: I, personally, loved this movie. Leslie Nielson has the perfect personality for Frank Drebin (main character) and Priscilla Presley tops it off. There are some very memorable moments, and also some one-liners that will have you rolling on the floor. If you're skeptical, rent the movie. You'll be laughing your butt off in no time.
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Summary: Hilarious Classic...
Review: A good belly laugh is to be had, even after having seen it at least 20 times!
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Summary: Is there a funnier scene in the history of movies...
Review: Than the baseball game? That scene has me still cracking up and I think I have at caught that scene about 35 times. I can't stop laughing when Lt. Drebin takes off his umpire's mask and the crowd begins chanting "Enrico Palazzo, Enrico Palazzo!" If you haven't seen this movie, PLEASE rent it as soon as you can. It WILL be worth your while.
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Summary: Is this the funniest movie ever or what?
Review: This movie is hard to review because there are jokes and gags that come one after another and to explain them in a review would ruin it when you later see the movie. The plot is about a police detective (Leslie Nielsen) attempting to foil an assasination attempt of Queen Elizabeth in her visit to LA. He has foils who are fellow detectives, none of whom are quite as dumb as he is, including George Kennedy and, ahem, OJ Simpson who plays a poor schlemiel. The co star of this movie is a knockout, gorgeous, Priscilla Presley who really teams well with Nielsen. I don't want to give away any gags but, suffice it to say that there is a scene at a California Angels game that will leave you choking with laughter. The gags are silly but silly humor is usually the funniest. You will not intellectualize with this movie .. you will just roll with laughter. It's great and it's still funny a second or third time through.
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Summary: Laugh Out Loud Funny!
Review: It would take at least a 10,000 word article to describe all of the gags that make you laugh during this movie. While one weird happening after another occurs all of the movie's actors maintain straight faces, as if nothing unusual around them is happening. My favorite example of this is when Drebin crashes into something everytime he parks his car and then proceeds to get out and walk away as if nothing happened (Sometimes I wish I could do that).That's what I like most about these Zucker, Abrams, Zucker movies. Guaranteed to give you rock hard abs after a solid hour-and-a-half of laughs.
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Summary: Nice beaver!!
Review: The Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker team has given us hilarious classics like The Kentucky Fried Movie, Airplane! and Top Secret. However, for me, The Naked Gun is the best of the lot and is one of the funniest films ever made. I was a huge fan of the TV series Police Squad. Unfortunately, ABC did not really give the series a chance and axed it after one year. One of the series' original gimmicks was to have a "guest star" who was killed off during the opening credits (Florence Henderson was machine-gunned, William Shatner was poisoned, Lorne Greene was thrown out of a speeding car, etc.) Unfortunately, one of the "guest stars" was John Belushi, who died before the episode could be aired. The producers had to pull the episode as a result. This was the final blow for the series which was canceled soon after. The series Sledge Hammer feebly tried to cover the same ground, but paled in comparison to Police Squad.That's why I was overjoyed when the movie came out in 1988 and was even funnier than the original series. Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker take the Mel Brooks approach of cramming every one of their movies with jokes, knowing that a good percentage of them will hit their mark. The jokes in The Naked Gun, however, ALL seem to work. Leslie Nielsen, who was a serious dramatic actor until Airplane! made him into a comedy star, is hilarious. Without trying to be funny, Nielsen gets laughs by playing it absolutely straight -- even when he's wearing a body length condom, passing out by smelling 3 year old Chinese food or singing a horrible version of the National Anthem at a baseball game. Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker use the Leslie Nielsen theory of casting to the hilt in Naked Gun. Non-comedy stars like George Kennedy, Priscilla Presley, O.J. Simpson (when he could show his face in public), Reggie Jackson and Ricardo Montalban have mastered the art of delivering funny lines with absolute seriousness. It would take too long to recount all of my favorite scenes. My personal favorite is the baseball scene. If you're a baseball fan, you've probably seen a person singing the National Anthem botch the lyrics or seen an umpire who seemed to get a little too much pleasure in ringing up strike three on a hitter. The humor may be extremely exaggerated, but Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker base the scene on real situations, thereby making the humor even more hysterical. The first time I saw the film, I was laughing so hard, tears were coming out of my eyes and I couldn't breathe during that scene! Apparently, the audience I saw it with agreed because their laughter drowned out a good deal of dialogue. Nielsen's umpiring still makes me laugh, especially when it's shown between innings at a baseball stadium. The DVD transfer is excellent, but the real advantage of the DVD edition is the hilarious commentary of David Zucker. So many directors, when they provide audio commentary for one of their films on DVD, act so pompous and self-important you would think they had done something noble for mankind rather than just direct a movie. Zucker, however, has a great self-deprecating style that fits the film perfectly. It's quite clear that he has as much fun making these films as we have watching them.
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Summary: Nielsen Gets High Ratings
Review: If you liked the summer series, "Police Squad!," you'll love this movie. Like the famed Inspector Cleuseau, Frank Drebin is a bumbling cop who apprehends criminals more by accident than by design. There are a lot of funny moments in this movie, especially the part where Drebin goes to the bathroom during a press conference and forgets to take his microphone off! Hilarious! Priscilla Presley raises the temperature a bit in her role as Drebin's sultry love interest. Even OJ Simpson shows what a cut-up he is in his role as the equally bumbling Nordberg. Even though "The Naked Gun" is a laugh-riot, I'd still have to say you'd be better off renting it instead of owning it as the movie's humor tends to wear thin after a while. Still, if you like slapstick comedy, you'll definitely want to see this movie more than once.
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Summary: I Laughed So Hard I Peed In My Pants!
Review: This Movie Is Amazingly Funny. I am amazed how they make every single scene funny! The Love Scene is funny when they wear gigantic condoms. The Part with him in the bathroom and making noises into the speaker. The funny death scene. The hospital scenes. The Fish Biting Scene. Oops I may be saying to much. This DVD Better be in anyones Movie Collection this movie is so funny where that AFI HAD TO HAVE PLACED IT IN THE TOP 100!
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Summary: Laugh, Laugh, Laugh
Review: In the grand tradition of slap-stick comedy comes one of the best of the genre, The Naked Gun-From the Files of Police Squad! Taking Mel Brooks lead and running with it, the Zucker Brothers(of Airplane fame) have taken this form of comedy to a whole new level. This film parodies the old cop show Police Squad and stars Leslie Nielson as Lt. Frank Drevon. The plot is very simple, something weird is going on, and Frank is going to solve the mystery. But first he is going to give us some of the most outragiously funny situational and slap-stick comedy ever recorded on film. This movie is one of the new classics. It is hard to stop laughing at any point in the whole film. And a bonus to this film is that it stays funny no matter how many times you watch it. It is great!
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Summary: THE STORY OF DAVEY CROCKETT
Review: THE NAKED GUN still holds up after all these years. Very funny, snappy and dead on, this movie never fails to entertain and make you laugh, and now that's it's on DVD... you can replay to your hearts content. Clean widescreen transfer of the film, excellent sound, and the best of the best, audio commentary from David Zucker (Director/Writer), Robert Weiss (Producer), Peter Tilden (Host) - which, next to GHOSTBUSTERS, is one of the funniest commentary around. Inside jokes (Davey Crockett is everywhere in this movie), insight, and just plain funny banter make this commentary great to listen to (and like the NAKED GUN movies, you can listen to it several times and come up with something new). I can't recommend this commentary enough... it's that good. So is the DVD as a whole... always worth a rental, but also an excellent addition to the your collection.
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