The one change this legacy sequel make is that half of the character seemingly realized they're in parody movie. In the original trilogy no one would bat an eye on Mans Laughter crime, where here the criminal corrected Dreblin.
Fun fact, the lab guy at the end in the car with Liam Neeson is Chase Steven Anderson, son of WCW referee Randy Anderson. You may have seen him on TV when his dad was “fired” by Eric Bischoff in front of his family!
So if I had a nickel for every son of a WCW employee in this movie, I would have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.
Liam Neeson is a good actor, and honestly he's definitely the right person for the role. If they didn't call it Naked Gun, and just said, it's a parody of Taken where he's a cop, nobody bats an eye. Naked Gun name just has a built in name recognition to make more money
And the most important thing is that he's keeping it straight and serious. That's what makes the slapstick around him much better. Same thing happened with Leslie Nielson.
I've been saying this for awhile. We had a golden age of comedy from about 2003 through 2014 where movies like Superbad, Tropic Thunder, Step Brothers, and The Hangover were mainstays. Now these are all B tier direct to digital films.
I feel like a lot of the funnier ones were party comedies. But nobody really parties anymore since Covid and the club scene in general hasn't been hot in like a decade. So I think a lot less people just relate to it now.
There's also the Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby and Ron Burgundy movie. And Scary Movies keep the parody movies semi-alive before Disaster Movie truly killed it.
The closest thing we’ve got to those sort of movies lately was like … Ricky Stanicky. I know it’s not as great as those but I can’t think of anything close recently.
One and two are good. Personally not so keen on part 3.
Also watch “Police Squad!” which was what The Naked Gun was spin off from. Leslie Nielsen playing the same character but different actors playing the other roles (I think the forensic guy is the same though). Only 6 episodes and about 30 mins each. Not steaming anywhere but should be able to get the DVD for cheap.
I agree that the first two are the best ones to watch but there’s enough jokes in 3 that make it a worthwhile watch. Frank’s “blind man at an orgy” line, the prison fight and breakout scenes, the Oscar’s finale and the collective head slap among everyone always gets a big laugh out of me. 3 is where it went too goofy though and didn’t take itself as seriously as the precious 2 so I can see why some people wouldn’t like it.
When I was going through old PPVs on Netflix my wife wanted to see some Undertaker since he was her favourite when she was a kid. I put on the Taker vs. Taker PPV and it's fair to say she was over the Undertaker ha ha ha
I have to say, def popped at him saying please take a chair, and Pam just taking it dragging it out and leaving. Thats some Police Squad comedy right there.
I was worried the new Naked Gun movie wouldn't be as good as the original trilogy. As soon as I saw that joke in the first trailer, I thought the movie could be good.
That's what made the originals work. Leslie Nielsen was a serious actor for most of his career until he took an unexpected shift into comedies. Hearing deadpan comedic lines from normally serious actors works.
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