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Bookmark this pageThe Naked Gun (1988)
Director: David Zucker
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From Time Out Film Guide
Fans of the Airplane team (and especially of their short-lived TV series Police Squad, by which this gloriously tacky spoof cop-thriller is inspired) will know that corny old gags, hoary clichés, and downright silliness can, if delivered in the right spirit, provide far more fun than any amount of Merchant-Ivory bons mots or Woody Allen witticisms. As ever, sophistication is conspicuously absent as tactless, dim-witted Lt Frank Drebin (Nielsen) investigates the shooting of a cop during a ludicrously audacious drugs bust. One hesitates even to attempt a synopsis of the admirably perfunctory plot, other than that suspects include a delirously plastic Priscilla Presley and a magnificently corseted Montalban. Ineptitude rules throughout. Finally, though, it's Nielsen's show: with an unaccountable flair for the needlessly dramatic, he holds the entire shambling absurdity together by treating everything as if it were a matter of life or death. The endlessly tasteless juvenilia should make you ashamed of laughing yourself into a stupor.Author: GA
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- Posted on Jun 06 2009 17:46 It's funny you should mention Woody Allen because his movies in the 60s were a lot like Naked Gun.
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Cast & crew
Director: David Zucker
Producer: Robert K Weiss
Cast: Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, Ricardo Montalban, George Kennedy, OJ Simpson, Susan Beaubian, Nancy Marchand, John Houseman full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 85 mins
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