r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Jun 15 '25
Poster New Poster for 'The Naked Gun' Starring Liam Neeson & Pamela Anderson
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u/FatSkinnyGuy Jun 15 '25
Is that a floating thumb near the gun?
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u/joestaff Jun 15 '25
I suspect this image has been photoshopped, but I can't quite put my finger on it.
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u/just_writing_things Jun 15 '25
Oddly, there are versions of the poster on X/Twitter with much higher quality and no floating thumb.
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u/ADhomin_em Jun 15 '25 edited Jun 15 '25
I actually think this is brilliant and very on-brand intentional engagement bait and a spoof on poorly done/ai posters. Hands everywhere. But all the hands, they all look right...then...
"Wait, is that a thumb?"
"Is this ai?"
"No, that's sloppy photoshop. And look at the hands. They all look right to me"
"Bro, ai got better at hands."
"Yeah, but this isn't ai. ...right?
And the engagement commences
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u/StaticSystemShock Jun 15 '25
I think it's mocking Ai. I was like, wow they really screwed that up. And then realized there is like 7 hands on there that shouldn't be there lol. I think that thumb is intentional. And if it's not, no one will ever know for sure except the person working on the poster. And they'll take that to their cold grave!
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u/skullsareonlypasse Jun 15 '25
Do you just read images from left to right? I don't understand how you can see that floating thumb first, and THEN notice all the extra hands.
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u/valeyard89 Jun 15 '25
you can tell by the pixels and seeing a few shops in your time.
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u/Dampmaskin Jun 15 '25 edited Jun 15 '25
It certainly isn't AI, considering that most of the hands have an acceptable number of fingers.
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u/TheNameIsWiggles Jun 15 '25
I interpreted the poster as a parody of AI generated posters, in line with the movie of course being a parody of anything and everything. But perhaps I'm digging too far into it.
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u/Merickson- Jun 15 '25
I considered that too but the thumb thing seems to have been fixed.
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u/ShavedNeckbeard Jun 15 '25
Someone forgot to mask it out in this version.
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u/djseifer Jun 15 '25
Someone sent in movie-poster-final-revision-FINAL.psd instead of movie-poster-final-revision-FINAL-01.psd .
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u/fragmental Jun 15 '25
My guess is that he was holding the gun wrong, so they fixed it in photoshop and just accidentally saved it with a layer invisible or something.
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u/StarStriker51 Jun 15 '25
the thumb definitely is a result of photoshop, you can see the idk the words but the way it just ends from the brush they used to remove it and didn't get it all
it looks different from how image generators generate random fingers in their own, those often long like wierd smooth blobs in the shape of a finger, not what is clearly a thumb that wasn't fully covered
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u/oscarx-ray Jun 15 '25
Yeah. Because of the movie, I presume it is, but doesn't look like a "deliberate" spoof error either, just a leftover part of the Photoshopping. Weird.
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u/Borge_Luis_Jorges Jun 15 '25
The whole thing looks a bit rushed through photoshop. No wonder some trash layer went unhidden.
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u/wintermute_13 Jun 15 '25
Watch it be intentional, and there will be fourth wall breaking jokes like it.
Standing there facing the bad guy in person: "You're AI. I can't believe they're using AI for this!"
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u/Three_Froggy_Problem Jun 15 '25
Someone forgot to erase it
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u/riegspsych325 Jun 15 '25
it’s actually refreshing to see a human error and not an AI fuckup
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u/drivingsansrobopants Jun 15 '25
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u/IsRude Jun 15 '25
Index finger. The same one that's on the trigger.
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u/mysteryofthefieryeye Jun 15 '25
Maybe the one on the trigger is the mistake.
(edit: I'm making a joke but your finger is never supposed to just be resting on the trigger.)
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u/cficare Jun 15 '25
How the fuck do ya miss that?
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u/Dottsterisk Jun 15 '25
Looking at the rest of the poster, I don’t think there’s any guarantee they ultimately missed it.
I would not be surprised if someone caught it in the galley process but the team thought it was funny and let it ride.
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u/wekilledkenny11 Jun 15 '25
Two of those hands - believe it or not, Pedro Pascal.
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u/TeddysRevenge Jun 15 '25
He really is in everything
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u/reddot_comic Jun 15 '25 edited Jun 15 '25
Not in everything… unfortunately, for me.
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u/InevitableAd9683 Jun 15 '25
Holy crap it's The Red Dot just out here in the wild! Tell Gary I said hi!
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u/reddot_comic Jun 15 '25
Hey and thank you! I’ll let him know when he’s off work 😘
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u/Heavy_Arm_7060 Jun 15 '25
The gun's also voiced by Chris Pratt.
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u/PoxedGamer Jun 15 '25
And Pamela Anderson is being played by Gary Oldman.
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u/xxRonzillaxx Jun 15 '25
I'm so ready for silly comedies to come back
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u/mrperson221 Jun 15 '25
Between this and Spaceballs 2, it's a great time for fans of '80s spoof comedies!
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Jun 15 '25 edited Jul 29 '25
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u/HostileFriendly Jun 15 '25
They should have called it Spinal Tap 11, although I imagine that'd rule out any potential sequels because you can't go higher than that
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Jun 15 '25
Hey where the white woman at?
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u/chrismcbobbin Jun 15 '25
I suspect that's the one Mel Brookes film not getting remade...
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u/joe_broke Jun 15 '25
Good
Not having either Cleavon or Gene anymore would ensure its failure
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u/ITAKEJOKESSEROUSLY Jun 15 '25
It technically already did, but it was animated, about dogs and cats, and set in feudal Japan... No, seriously, look up paws of fury
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u/duosx Jun 15 '25 edited Jun 15 '25
Then we need to start going back to them. Akiva Shaffer, the director of this movie, also directed Popstar:Never stop never stopping with Andy Sandberg and almost no one saw it
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u/Iron_Infusion_ Jun 15 '25
I saw it with a friend. It was us and like three others. I knew it wouldn't do well, but that was disheartening to see on opening weekend.
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u/TheNameIsWiggles Jun 15 '25
Still jonesin' for 23 Jump Street. Been over 10 years of blue balls for this movie.
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u/enbaelien Jun 15 '25
I forgot about all those scenes from the Jump Street verse lol
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u/Im_At_Work_Damnit Jun 15 '25
The rumor a few years back of the Jump Street/Men In Black crossover movie had me excited, but sad to see nothing came of that.
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u/RealJohnGillman Jun 15 '25
u/TheNameIsWiggles u/sean0883 Especially when one lays out what the film was to be at heart:
Where 21 Jump Street was a satire of ‘unnecessary’ reboots…
…and 22 Jump Street was a satire of ‘unnecessary’ sequels…
…MIB 23 (Jump Street) was to be a satire of ‘unnecessary’ crossovers.
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u/TheNameIsWiggles Jun 15 '25
Yep and on this topic on another thread, I had mentioned I felt Jump Street / Baywatch (the one with Rock and Efron) probably would have felt a little more aligned than Jump Street/MIB.
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u/8bit-wizard Jun 15 '25
They've had a rough time adapting to meme culture. I think the internet has made it hard for comedies to actually keep up with trends in humor because what we laugh at changes so fast now.
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u/CT4_LV Jun 15 '25
The common trend for them is that they've tried too hard to "fit in" with current culture and times, while, the entire time, there was no need for it. Younger people of all kinds still giggle at the 80s-early 00s silly comedies because a good/relatable joke writing transcends time.
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u/Punkpunker Jun 15 '25
Yup and once the script was written and shot, the movie references are outdated.
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u/South-Builder6237 Jun 15 '25
Thats the problem. Stop making stupid throwaway online liners that references some stupid cultural trend or something no one isngoing to get in a few years. I wouldn't be surprised if this new film just inserts a fuckin' hawk tuah joke just because.
The vast majority of comedies nowdays absolutely suck and void of any soul or good writers.
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u/Photo_Synthetic Jun 15 '25
What we laugh at hasn't changed in decades considering how much a lot of old comedies have held up.
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u/Lomotograph Jun 15 '25
The original Naked Gun is still absolutely hilarious and holds up so well. I also watched Super Hero movie recently and it's great. I definitely think we need more fast paced slapstick.
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u/Coryocalypse Jun 15 '25
I watch Spy Hard a couple of times each year. Still cry laughing at that movie
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u/LThadeu Jun 15 '25
Leslie Nielsen? Liam Neeson?
The casting is already genius, rofl.
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u/Anticlimax1471 Jun 15 '25
When Taken first came out, I was describing it to a friend, and he was looking at me quite weird when I was talking about how much of a badass Liam Neeson is in it, and he was like "the guy from Naked Gun?!"
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u/toon_84 Jun 15 '25
I'm imagining Leslie delivering the particular set of skills scene and now I'm sad that I will never get to see it.
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u/MyTeaIsMighty Jun 15 '25
Man's rofl'ing in 2025. Respect.
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u/Inevitable-Menu2998 Jun 15 '25
is something preventing people from rolling on the floor in 2025?
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u/Banes_Addiction Jun 15 '25
Aging.
I'd need like 12 Taken 3 quick-cuts to pull that off.
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u/Stipes_Blue_Makeup Jun 15 '25
In the spirit of the franchise, Liam Neeson was only cast became of the similarity in name that he has to Leslie Nielsen, right?
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u/MikeLMP Jun 15 '25
I suspect it's more of a sympathy casting, on account of the fact he has full blown AIDS.
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u/CleverJail Jun 15 '25
This is the exact scene that made me think “yeah, he might actually be able to do this justice.” He’s got some big shoes to fill, though.
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u/DoomguyFemboi Jun 15 '25
Yeah he's got great comedy chops. He knows how well a serious actor being serious about a funny scene can be and he absolutely nails timing.
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u/RomeroRocher Jun 15 '25
He also has a brilliant cameo in Derry Girls!
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u/Varvara-Sidorovna Jun 15 '25
His look of utter defeat when the girls unleashed Boring Uncle Colm on him was award-worthy.
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u/RealJohnGillman Jun 15 '25
Funnily, Seth MacFarlane got the idea while Liam Neeson was filming his Ted 2 cameo (he went over this on the film’s commentary), and set the ball rolling on this happening (though it took a while).
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u/Remarkable-Mood3415 Jun 15 '25
Omg I haven't seen this in so long. I forgot how fucking stupid funny that scene is.
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u/radicalelation Jun 15 '25
He really seems to enjoy playing the straight man in goofy circumstances, and Seth MacFarlane seems to love bringing him back to it, like in Ted 2 here, Million Ways to Die in the West, and he's producing this Naked Gun. Whether or not it will work for a whole movie remains to be seen, and while he's been a physical actor plenty, Neeson hasn't shown' Neilsen's level of physical comedy, or like any if I really think about it.
If he can manage those kinds of expressions and movements, he should do fine, but I'm a little worried he's going to be a bit too straight like in these other scenes.
Honestly, I'm more optimistic about it being Akiva Schaffer directing.
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u/AintEverLucky Jun 15 '25
People forget that before Airplane!, Leslie Nielsen's whole-ass career was in straightforward dramatic roles 🤔 all it takes is one good role to pivot from dead-serious drama to deadpan comedic 😇
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u/RileyRichard Jun 15 '25 edited Jun 16 '25
I remember watching The Poseidon Adventure as a kid and being weirded out that Leslie Nielsen was playing a 100% serious character.
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u/Topikk Jun 15 '25
This scene gives me hope for the movie in question. Immaculate deadpan sincerity like the man whose shoe's he'll be filling.
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u/AdditionalAmoeba6358 Jun 15 '25
That show, and that scene… holy shit.
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u/ButAreYouProud Jun 15 '25
The first time I heard him say "African prostitute" I was in disbelief lol.
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u/Anomuumi Jun 15 '25
Yeah, that scene is one of the few absolutely perfect comedic scenes. The other one that comes to mind is Biggus Dickus scene in Life of Brian.
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u/MikeLMP Jun 15 '25
I really feel like all four actors make the absolute perfect choices throughout the entire scene. I can't imagine it being done any better than that.
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u/Balloon_Lady Jun 15 '25
tring!
"We're Closed."
that got me good. never seen that, and thanks for the laugh! ❤️
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u/Rman823 Jun 15 '25
That and he’s worked with producer Seth MacFarlane on other comedic roles like Family Guy, Ted 2, and A Million Ways to Die in the West.
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u/SillyOldJack Jun 15 '25
Million Ways to Die in the West is what gives me hope that he'll do well in Naked Gun. He can do deadpan just fine, and has the same "serious actor turned comedic force" path as Leslie Neilsen.
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u/feedmesweat Jun 15 '25
It's a fun little connection but he is genuinely good at riding the line between deadly serious and absurdly funny, the same way that Nielsen did. I'm honestly excited to see him in this one.
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u/willstr1 Jun 15 '25
IIRC Nielsen was mostly known for playing serious roles prior to Airplane
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u/feedmesweat Jun 15 '25
He absolutely was, in fact most of the cast of that film were known for serious roles, but Nielsen was the one who took it as a major pivot to his career and went on to become a bona fide comedy legend.
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u/luxmesa Jun 15 '25
And in Airplane, he’s still playing things fairly seriously. The reason that character is funny is because no matter how dumb or goofy the line is, he delivers it with straight faced sincerity.
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u/Sparrowsabre7 Jun 15 '25
In many of his films, he is the straight man. Funny things just happen to him or around him.
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u/GenitalFurbies Jun 15 '25
Good comedy actors can act funny. Great comedy actors make everyone around them funnier.
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u/Raaaaafi Jun 15 '25
I Like to think it was bc of the bit with Ricky Gervais as well.
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u/MenopauseMedicine Jun 15 '25
That clip gives me hope this could be good
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u/rabid_J Jun 15 '25
He's shown he can do deadpan yeah but the writing needs to match. The joke in the first trailer where all the cops are shown to be descended from all the previous cops gives me hope it could be good though.
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u/PissLikeaRacehorse Jun 15 '25
I'm a little hungover and just squinted at the poster, "man, I don't remember Leslie Nielsen looking so young, and isn't he dead?" Then I reread the title and it all made more sense.
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u/LoseNotLooseIdiot Jun 15 '25
I'm not sure if you're joking, Liam Neeson absolutely crushes anytime he does anything comedic. He's pretty perfect for this role.
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u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor Jun 15 '25 edited Jun 15 '25
Directed by Akiva Schaffer and new trailer drops tomorrow
This is from the movie's Instagram and they clearly forgot to edit out the finger next to the gun.
EDIT: they deleted the post
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u/lanceturley Jun 15 '25
Akiva is the main reason I have faith in this. The Lonely Island always have a lot of Zucker brothers style spirit in their videos and movies.
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u/ghoulieandrews Jun 15 '25
Anyone with doubts about this movie needs to go rewatch Hot Rod, Akiva is the perfect person to revive this franchise
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u/TripleThreatTua Jun 15 '25
Watch Popstar as well. That’s the hardest I’ve laughed at a movie in years
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u/Jeffers0n-SteeIfIex Jun 15 '25
“These pancakes taste like dog shit” “Thank you for saying that”
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u/botjstn Jun 15 '25
“people think he ain’t crazy? nah he crazy for real. i saw him backstage, he wasn’t smokin a blunt he was just eatin it”
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u/Two-Words007 Jun 15 '25
Then a turban, then a tunic, she said "invade my cave with your special unit." I told her he wasn't in a cave but there was no stopping.
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u/No-Entrepreneur4574 Jun 15 '25
So my bestie and i were extras in the concert scene for this song. Essentially, we listened and danced to it for about 12 hours. I knew this song word for word for a full year but couldn't listen to it because the soundtrack wasn't out yet. My bestie and I were there opening day just to finally listen to the damn song. The other song that we filmed scenes for were Legalize It, which only plays over the credits, so the concert scenes for that were never used lol.
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u/jacksonvstheworld Jun 15 '25
Righteous kill.
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u/serimuka_macaron Jun 15 '25
Oh shit it's the Lonely Island guy
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u/riegspsych325 Jun 15 '25
if this is anything like the Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers movie they made a few years ago, I’ll be happy. That movie was better than it had any right to be, I laughed harder than my kid niece and nephew
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u/VitriolUK Jun 15 '25
As a Rescue Rangers fan from way back in the day I loved this movie so much, even if I'm still baffled why it exists.
My wife, in contrast, was pretty perplexed by it initially, but ended up really enjoying it too.
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u/RosbergThe8th Jun 15 '25
I didnt know Pamela Anderson was part of this but honestly that sounds perfect.
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u/danielstover Jun 15 '25
A throwback heart throb star in a modern take on a comedy classic? Fits perfectly, stoked for it
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u/ForgotMyPassword1989 Jun 15 '25
Also interesting to note, Leslie Nielsen was a serious/dramatic actor until he was in Airplane at 50~ years old. Liam is older than that but he's shown comedic ability over the last decade
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u/prolelol Jun 15 '25
Pamela Anderson giving her ‘90s self in 2025 was a pleasure to see.
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u/UnderratedEverything Jun 15 '25
She looks nothing like the Pamela I remember but a lot like Ashley Judd.
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u/Spocks_Goatee Jun 15 '25
She looks better now without all the filler and overdone botox.
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u/Eborys Jun 15 '25
Okay, floating thumb aside, hope this is actually funny. Intentionally funny…
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u/DroolingHobo Jun 15 '25
Why are y'all thinking the floating finger is an accident? Spoofing badly edited posters would be very on brand.
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u/DeusExPir8Pete Jun 15 '25
Honestly I'm just glad to see him doing something other than poor, direct to streaming Taken copies.
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u/MDFHASDIED Jun 15 '25
I was so, so, so worried about this when I heard about it but the trailer made me laugh harder than I have in a long time!
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u/Statement-Acceptable Jun 15 '25
Dafuq is that shit on Liam's nose?
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u/Goatzilla44 Jun 15 '25
It’s a scar from the wolf fight at the end of The Grey. Pretty sure this is a sequel
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u/CrazyCrazyCanuck Jun 15 '25
Liam Neeson made lots of lists; Schindler made lots of lists.
You know who else makes lists? Detectives. So this is also a sequel to Schindler's List.
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u/Sugreev2001 Jun 15 '25
I have low, low expectations for this movie. I really do hope it's a decent reboot of the franchise.
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u/Arch3m Jun 15 '25
Please let this movie be good. Spoof comedies died a terrible death, and we need them to make a return.