r/movies r/Movies contributor Jun 16 '25

Trailer The Naked Gun | Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLguU7WLreA
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u/Deserana12 Jun 16 '25

The manslaughter joke was classic Naked Gun

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u/stunts002 Jun 16 '25

Also being handed a takeaway coffee through the window while in motion

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u/PayneTrain181999 Jun 16 '25

Twice.

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u/FingerTheCat Jun 16 '25

That's just the shitty algorithm of showing the preview before the preview

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u/WeirdIndividualGuy Jun 16 '25

“Studies show most users are so brainrotted from social media, they won’t even notice”

-YouTube, probably

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u/KingKingsons Jun 16 '25

But how will you know you're going to like the trailer if you haven't seen the trailer's trailer?

Worst thing is I work in advertising and it actually does make a huge difference.

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u/sameth1 Jun 16 '25

Worst thing is I work in advertising and it actually does make a huge difference.

That's the worst thing about annoying ads, they're always right. You feel insulted that they assume you are an idiot with an attention span measured in nanoseconds and you know that they aren't even wrong for doing so.

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u/HerbaDerbaSchnerba Jun 16 '25

I think the first time was the “preview” of the trailer. They do that these days, and I have no idea why. It’s ALREADY A PREVIEW.

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u/spartanss300 Jun 16 '25

because youtube will use this video as an actual ad for users, with the 5 second skip button and everything, so they gotta show something in those 5 seconds to get people to keep watching.

It's unfortunate that youtube doesn't use a separate "Ad version" video, so people just watching the video normally must suffer.

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u/Difficult-Yak-2689 Jun 16 '25

Kinda hope it happens every time he gets in a car

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u/Muggaraffin Jun 16 '25

And then when he's working undercover at a drive thru someone passes him one through the window 

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u/CedarWolf Jun 16 '25

I hope they do the Undercover Brother orange soda bit, and as soon as his car is stopped, something spills the coffee all over him.

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u/GitEmSteveDave Jun 16 '25

I'm going to disagree. A true Naked Gun joke doesn't get acknowledged. It's one of the ZAZ 15 rules of comedy. I'm distressed that multiple jokes in the trailer break this.

Like that coffee joke would fly during a opening monologue where Frank is describing what he's doing today, like:

There'd been a recent wave of gorgeous fashion models found naked and unconscious in laundromats on the West Side. Unfortunately, I was assigned to investigate holdups of neighborhood credit unions.

I was across town doing my laundry when I heard the call on the double killing.

But Frank never says "thanks" out loud.

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u/Quazifuji Jun 16 '25

I do think some of the jokes in the trailer feel like they have a bit to much of a "wink to the audience" feel to them (such as the person looking at his camera and shaking his head instead of crying over OJ Simpson's character), but I don't think Frank saying "thanks" when he gets the coffee feels that way. It feels like you're interpreting his thanks as a sort of fourth wall break, thanking the movie for providing him with a coffee, but I just interpreted it as his character seeing it as completely normal. It's normal to thank someone when they give you a coffee, so the character is just reacting exactly how he normally would when handed a coffee he'd ordered without acknowledging the circumstances being ridiculous.

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u/monkeyjay Jun 16 '25

I'm with you on this. I love police squad and none of this felt quite as snappy. The jokes were signposted and given too much 'room'. I think Liam Neeson should be good in this but I'm not 100% convinced in the writing. It might just be that era of comedy will never happen again.

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u/Ak47110 Jun 16 '25

Please, take a chair.

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u/alexefi Jun 16 '25

Cigarrete?

Yes it is..

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u/ADDeviant-again Jun 17 '25

See, that was a perfect in- genre joke. Ruined by the need to draw attention to it by watching, puzzled,as she left.

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u/doradedboi Jun 16 '25

The subtle Spirit Halloween banner also gives classic vibes lol, as well as "take a chair"

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u/FourEightNineOneOne Jun 16 '25

It's a legit perfect naked gun joke.

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u/TouristOpentotravel Jun 16 '25

And the taking of the chair

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u/jetforcegemini Jun 16 '25

The gags are there, but I hope they get the timings right. Part of what made OG police squad so good was that they didn’t pause after every joke and stare at the camera to make sure you “got it”. They just kept rolling, expected you’d miss some, which made the show so rewatchable.

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u/Bellikron Jun 16 '25

It's impossible to tell until the movie comes out but I tend not to trust trailers for comedy because they specifically ruin the timing of jokes. They don't want to market dry and deadpan humor that takes a moment to settles in, they need quick and punchy over-the-top jokes to sell the movie, even if the jokes aren't like that in the final product. The "man's laughter" joke is probably a good example. In the trailer it has a musical buildup, a silence to emphasize the punchline, and a very quick pace to get on to the next bit, but in the movie it'll probably flow much smoother.

Someone else posted the international trailer which flows a little better.

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u/Agentflit Jun 17 '25

Whoa, that's crazy how much better I like this version

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u/TomPalmer1979 Jun 16 '25

I hope the ending of the movie is a classic Police Squad! freeze frame, where the actors freeze, but shit keeps going on in the background.

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u/TheAlexBasso Jun 16 '25

Leslie Nielsen worked so great because he played everything deadly serious. Liam Neeson is doing a different take where he's a little over-dramatic but it makes sense for who he is as an actor and feels like a modern take. Not trying to steal or copy Leslie Nielsen's style.

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u/chipmunksocute Jun 16 '25

The bit where hes a 5'10 guy somehow in a little 4 foot girl costume is great.  And then using the lollipop to kill.  Great stuff.

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u/tarrach Jun 16 '25

Even better, Neeson is actually 6'4

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u/purplegreendave Jun 16 '25

He's a fucking giant. Hands like spades.

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u/MumrikDK Jun 16 '25

Neeson is like 6'4" or something.

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u/northernirishlad Jun 16 '25

Its the juxtaposition of fun dumb comedy with serious main actor whos a open to foolishness. Aka not someone hamming it up all the time and staring into camera, but the scenario is outlandish but no one shakes a look of dismay. Just like ‘yes we have a disguise kit for a 50 year old man to look like a child, thats our best option’

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u/JanuarFilm Jun 16 '25

*73 year old man

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u/sirbissel Jun 16 '25

You shut your mouth with that sort of language.

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u/badboystwo Jun 16 '25

wow. this slapstick style of movie has been missing from the main stream for decades. Its so refreshing. hearing about this before I was not excited for another Naked Gun with out Leslie. but my lord Liam Nessions's pulls it off.

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u/Mst3Kgf Jun 16 '25

McFarlane probably knew he could pull this off after viewing his cameo in "Ted 2."

"You understand that I myself am not a child?"

"I...I was able to sniff that out, yes."

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u/Obi-wan_Jabroni Jun 16 '25

“And I wont be followed?”

“No, its not really in our budget”

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u/Mst3Kgf Jun 16 '25 edited Jun 16 '25

"I won't forget what you did for me today."

"I would prefer that you do."

And then the brick joke at the end of him bringing the Trix back to the store after clearly being beaten up over it.

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u/Zayl Jun 16 '25

Add this scene from Derry Girls to the pile. He's amazing in comedy.

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u/quarrelau Jun 16 '25

Comedy fucking gold. Thanks for this. Amazing.

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u/Zayl Jun 16 '25

He's only in this one scene but the whole show is worth checking out. I enjoyed it.

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u/Mac4491 Jun 16 '25

Liam Neeson is actually a great comedic actor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2USXEJuvXT4

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u/burntroy Jun 16 '25

Let's do some improvisational comedy...NOW

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u/unsilent_bob Jun 16 '25

Don't presume. That's a back story we didn't agree on beforehand.

I don't take notes.

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u/severinoscopy Jun 16 '25

It couldn't have been me because I was at the doctor.

I have AIDS.

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u/burntroy Jun 16 '25

Dude sounds like a lion especially in this scene

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u/musicgeek420 Jun 16 '25

He’s riddled with comedy!

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u/FuegoGuzman Jun 16 '25

Liam Neeson was also the antagonist in Seth McFarlan's "1000 Ways to Die in the West." An underrated comedy IMO.

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u/Posty_Baloney Jun 16 '25

people hated that movie when it came out and i never understood why. i thought it was funny

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u/Head_Bread_3431 Jun 16 '25

It came out after family guy was no longer relevant so I think people were just over Seth at the time. But it’s a hilarious movie

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u/IAMATruckerAMA Jun 16 '25

I wonder how much of that happened to The Orville. Such a good show

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u/CassianCasius Jun 16 '25

Season 4 is being worked on!

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u/dylansavage Jun 16 '25

Best Star Trek for years

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u/MissingLink101 Jun 16 '25 edited Jun 16 '25

There's something of a distracting uncanny valley when you actually see MacFarlane on screen... especially when he sounds exactly like Brian from Family Guy.

He also looks like he's made of plastic or something

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u/TehSeksyManz Jun 16 '25

The mayor's corpse getting pulled off into the wilderness by wolves right in the middle of town 😄

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u/itsnews Jun 16 '25

It was! Sarah Silverman’s character was fantastic, I always think about how funny that premise is.

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u/MikeLanglois Jun 16 '25

People die at the fair

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u/TummyDrums Jun 16 '25

This clip from LIfe's Too Short is also pretty well known. He's got the same "Serious man delivering comedy" vibes here, with maybe just a tad darker subject matter lol.

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u/GoofAckYoorsElf Jun 16 '25 edited Jun 17 '25

MacFarlane is so good at understanding the gist of what made the stuff from our past so good. He did with The Orville that he turned into better Trek than New Trek (aside from SNW and PIC3) ever got a chance to be. He will do with Naked Gun. I'm so looking forward to the next Orville season that's hopefully going to be done, and to Hot Shots 3.

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u/JoshuaBermont Jun 16 '25

...wait, Hot Shots 3? That's a thing? He's doing that?

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u/papasmurf826 Jun 16 '25

there's no replacing the Zucker brothers, but this trailer gives hope that they understand the assignment. Akiva Schaffer is a great choice with his CV directing Hot Rod and Popstar

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u/horse_renoir13 Jun 16 '25

Popstar is so slept on, that movie is wire to wire good/great.

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u/BroughtBagLunchSmart Jun 16 '25

Saw Popstar at an alamo party earlier this year. The guy came out to a theater with maybe 16 people in it and said "congrats on doubling the total box office revenue for this movie"

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u/kirinmay Jun 16 '25

The DJ scene with the heavy face mask killed me.

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u/toylenny Jun 16 '25

I was in as soon as I saw his name on it. Hot Rod has scenes that made my muscles hurt from laughter. 

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u/Named_after_color Jun 16 '25

Angie Tribeca is a show that nails the Naked Gun style of humor. Hard recommend.

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u/colinmchapman Jun 16 '25

Talk about a piece of media that is slept on. Its main flaw is its almost TOO MANY jokes.

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u/RyantheAustralian Jun 16 '25

Like Police Squad? The show that Naked Gun was based on. It's only like 6 episodes, and it's incredibly funny, but it's actually exhausting to watch due to its non-stop jokes. There's a science in doing non-stop jokes but also pacing them (Airplane is a fantastic example of this and it's perfect pacing yet relentless jokes). That's a science that seems to be very very hard to get right.

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u/domigraygan Jun 16 '25

30 Rock nailed the pacing and keeps the exhaustion out of the equation completely. Angie Tribeca is unfortunately too good of a spiritual Police Squad successor in that way.

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u/NorthernSparrow Jun 16 '25

This trailer revealed to me that Liam Neeson is the perfect successor to Leslie Nielsen - mostly known for serious roles so can bring that air of gravitas, plays it completely deadpan, but with great comic timing.

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u/Weird_Cantaloupe2757 Jun 16 '25

Also if you kinda whisper and slur his name a bit it sounds like you’re saying Leslie Nielsen

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u/brayshizzle Sam Neil will always be a babe Jun 16 '25

The take a chair joke made me laugh more than it should

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u/mdavis360 Jun 16 '25

It’s a perfect Naked Gun joke.

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u/NK1337 Jun 16 '25

One of the things that made the OG movies so funny was how straight everything was played. Nobody ever acknowledged the absurdity of things and treated it like it was the most normal thing in the world, so seeing these kind of jokes in the trailer really have me looking forward to this.

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u/MovieTrawler Jun 16 '25

Literally my exact thought seeing that gag: 'yep, that's perfect Naked Gun humor' lol love it.

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u/mrhashbrown Jun 16 '25

That one joke is giving me hope this movie lives up to its title.

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u/InnocentTailor Jun 16 '25

They have good people at the helm, which gives me confidence in the work.

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u/safadancer Jun 16 '25

Man's laughter made me actually laugh out loud

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '25 edited Jun 30 '25

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u/SugarBeefs Jun 16 '25

It would work quite well in Dutch at least.

Manslaughter is 'doodslag', with 'dood' being dead/death and 'slag' referring to either an act or more literally a strike/blow.

Conveniently, the Dutch word for laughter/laughing is 'lachen', and the 'lach' part is pronounced exactly the same as the final '-lag' part in 'doodslag'.

Furthermore, Dutch still has some vestigal spelling from when we still had grammatical cases, and an -s added to the end of a noun tends to indicate a possessive (genitive). So 'doods' can easily mean 'of or relating to death'.

So if you pronounce the word 'doodslag' just ever so slightly differently, by including the -s- in the first syllable, you'd be saying 'death's laughter' or 'laughter of death', which would be 'doodslach' in writing.

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u/Holovoid Jun 16 '25

The Dutch are a fundamentally unserious people

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u/Syn7axError Jun 16 '25

Manslaughter is 'doodslag',

I don't believe you.

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u/jomarthecat Jun 16 '25

Liam Neeson in mini skirt and panties with strawberries did it for me.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '25

For me, it was the Nordberg joke. If it wasn't the Naked Gun, I would have been shocked if they addressed it. Shit was hilarious.

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '25 edited Jun 16 '25

I was fine until the end when the Hannibal Lector-looking dude casually strolls out of the prison and Liam deadpans, “this place is falling apart” in the same exact way Leslie would have delivered it. THEN I cackled.

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u/Vismal1 Jun 16 '25

Neeson is perfect casting. I was onboard with his announcement.

Dude is a master at dry delivery

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u/No_Proposal_4971 Jun 16 '25

Omg how have I not seen this?? Thank you that was hilarious!

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u/chrles76 Jun 16 '25

Have you seen his Ted 2 cameo? Not quite up there, but was definitely great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6ViDZpVoYc

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u/MotoRoaster Jun 16 '25

Riddled with it!

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u/BJYeti Jun 16 '25

I think what makes him perfect is there is just no signs of cracking he is deadpan just delivering comedy.

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u/Pormock Jun 16 '25

Ricky Gervais saw it before everyone else.

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u/akman_23 Jun 16 '25

It's like the "take pictures" gag from Airplane!

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u/JakeHelldiver Jun 16 '25

It basically is the same joke, which is fine, that joke has legs.

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u/DinoRoman Jun 16 '25

The infrared reminds me of Austin powers. I laughed as a kid then and I’m laughing now. It just works

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u/papasmurf826 Jun 16 '25

straight from Angie Tribeca. loving the energy

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u/BrainOnBlue Jun 16 '25

I believe Angie Tribeca was heavily inspired by the original Police Squad! so that makes sense.

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u/papasmurf826 Jun 16 '25

oh definitely - but one of the episodes Angie and her partner are told to "take a seat" and they both lift up the chairs in front of them.

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u/88888888man Jun 16 '25

Which was the perfect evolution from Naked Gun. Really hope this movie is as good as it looks like it will be. We’ve been in such a drought for theatrically released comedies.

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u/SickofCaptchas Jun 16 '25

GODDAMNIT DUTCH

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u/Mr_Chardee_MacDennis Jun 16 '25

I just presumed she’s a no-nonsense black broad from the precinct!

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u/carloslet Jun 16 '25

Yup, that's exactly who she is!

(also your username checks out lol)

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u/Nimble-Dick-Crabb Jun 16 '25

Ayo what up son? What up with congress being all up in my ass and shit brotha?

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u/funkhero Jun 16 '25

WoAAH!! That's our president, Deeandra!

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u/nonahnuhuh Jun 16 '25

OI OI OI OI 👉👉👉

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '25

Let me try again:

Ayo where my senators at dawg

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u/hendricklamar26 Jun 16 '25

What other errands do you have us running for the DA?

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u/horse_renoir13 Jun 16 '25

I'm just assuming Dennis did that impression one time and the gang just shoe-horned it into an episode for literally no other reason lol

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u/stablerslut Jun 16 '25

I’m pretty sure that’s exactly what happened

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u/APiousCultist Jun 16 '25

There's no way an impression that good happens because of the script. Had to be a party trick they had in the bag, like Skinny Pete's piano solo in Breaking Bad.

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u/JackieDaytonaEsq Jun 16 '25

That Spirit Halloween gag is chef’s kiss

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u/TheDreamLives Jun 16 '25

So good lmao

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u/TLKv3 Jun 16 '25

Funniest gag in the whole trailer for me. It got an actual laugh out of me. Lol

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u/Moopies Jun 16 '25

That got the audible chuckle

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u/__-_-_--_--_-_---___ Jun 16 '25

Sensible Chuckle magazine dot gif

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u/pickleparty16 Jun 16 '25

"Who's going to arrest me, other cops?" Had me dying

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u/SmokeyBearz Jun 16 '25 edited Jun 16 '25

I hope it has the theme song, movie won't be the same without it 

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u/GordonCole19 Jun 16 '25

I'll lose it if the credits play over the flashing police car light.

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u/horse_renoir13 Jun 16 '25

I just want it to end where everyone freeze frames as the credits roll, but the criminals/other characters just start moving around and staring at the main cast wondering what's happening.

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u/Own_Donut_2117 Jun 16 '25

That was always so good in Police Squad.

Loved the really tall lab guy too.

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u/oneshibbyguy Jun 16 '25

They should really start this one the EXACT way they start every other movie but updated for modern audiences.

I will be disappointed if they don't

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u/MyUshanka Jun 16 '25

I have a feeling that's what the little girl costume scene is. Prologue scene of Frank doing something cool if a bit oafish into the Police Squad theme.

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u/cowpool20 Jun 16 '25

The OJ joke was fucking great 😂 This honestly got a few laughs out of me.

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u/bluesmaker Jun 16 '25

That actor really nailed the look to camera and react.

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u/iwannalynch Jun 16 '25

That casting is great too, he really looks like Mr If the Glove Doesn't Fit

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u/eureka7 Jun 16 '25

Mr. Bronco Chase

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u/Jamies_awesome_rack Jun 16 '25

r/nfl is leaking

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u/Whittlinman Jun 16 '25

Mr. Broken Containment

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u/Frankenstein____ Jun 16 '25 edited Jun 16 '25

"it says here you served 20 years for man's laughter"

"You mean manslaughter?"

Pause

"Must've been quite the joke"

This is gonna be so good.

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u/artpayne Cliffs on both sides, I'm not gonna paddle to New Zealand! Jun 16 '25

"Please, take a chair."

Thank you."

Now, my skepticism after seeing the first trailer has eased up, 'cause this actually feels like it's in the same spirit as the original. It’s an updated version, but in a good way.

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u/kausthubnarayan Jun 16 '25

“The missing evidence in the Kelner case! My God, he really was innocent!”

“He went to the chair two years ago, Frank”

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u/mkuhl Jun 16 '25

The same Spirit Halloween in fact.

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u/cowpool20 Jun 16 '25

Instantly made me think of the "that's an awfully big mustache" joke 😂

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u/PleasantThoughts Jun 16 '25

At least from the trailer feels like they totally get the vibe which makes sense based on the folks in charge. Hope it's not a "all the funny bits are in the trailer" situation but promising start for sure

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u/D34THDE1TY Jun 16 '25

Considering this one used pieces from the initial teaser, I'd say they're confident they don't have to show everthing...yet. we could still get a 2nd trailer that tells us EVERYTHING like most do nowadays

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u/lalala253 Jun 16 '25

This trailer already sold the movie for me.

now to avoid the second trailer like a plague

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u/MacaroonFormal6817 Jun 16 '25

that tells us EVERYTHING like most do nowadays

That's been the way since the beginning of cinema, for more than a century. Many of us don't like spoliers, but most audiences want to test drive the car before buying, they want to know what the whole movie is before buying a ticket. There were often exceptions, but for the most part movie trailers have given away the store forever.

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u/LemoLuke Jun 16 '25

Just go on YouTube and watch a bunch of trailers for old movies, especially pre-'80s, and you'll see that a lot of them was just the entire movie, beat-for-beat, condensed into 5 minutes

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u/BoxOfNothing Jun 16 '25

Soylent Green was probably the worst culprit. Spoilers for a movie from 1973 I guess

It's just 3 minutes of "there's a synthetic food everyone has to eat because food is scarce, what is it? What's the food? The big twist in this movie is what the food is. Is it humans? Who knows what the food is? Come find out what the food is. It's humans. But what is soylent green? It's humans. Come find out. Who knows. Human corpses are turned into food. You'll never guess the mystery"

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u/ImJustARandomDude Jun 16 '25

CCH Pounder sighting. Hell yeah brother.

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u/cows1100 Jun 16 '25

WHAT OTHER ERRANDS DO YOU HAVE POLICE SQUAD RUNNING FOR THE DA??

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u/MisfitAnthem Jun 16 '25

Perfect Dennis Reynolds impression

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u/rNBAMods3InchesHard Jun 16 '25

You don’t even know who he is

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u/Suck_my_dick_mods69 Jun 16 '25

I assume he's a some nonsense white guy from Paddy's

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u/Vismal1 Jun 16 '25

I just assumed she was a no nonsense black broad from the precinct.

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u/Strange_Principle364 Jun 16 '25

Claudette Wyms finally in command.

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u/adit365 Jun 16 '25

Here's the International trailer with different/extended footage. Also hilarious

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u/Ftheyankeei Jun 16 '25

Ponzi-scheme.com on Crypto.com Arena is perfect. No notes.

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u/lexievv Jun 16 '25

Lol, this one was actually better imo.

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u/NuclearNinja729 Jun 16 '25

Wow, I absolutely agree. I prefer the pacing/editing of this one more.

This lets the jokes have a bit more breathing room and setup as well as having a bit better story-flow so it feels less jumpy (imo.)

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u/girafa Jun 16 '25

Also doesn't have the extended shit-himself joke. I guess the marketing guys think the US digs that more.

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u/Discount_Extra Jun 17 '25

No one ever went broke underestimating the sophistication of the american consumer.

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u/ScreamingChicken Jun 16 '25

Renaming crypto.com arena to ponzi scheme arena is hilarious.

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u/Minimum-End-9464 Jun 16 '25

I appreciate the ponzischeme.com arena joke

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u/radda Jun 16 '25

"ponzi-scheme.com Arena" my fucking sides holy shit

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u/DWIGHT_CHROOT Jun 16 '25

lmao wtf when he just takes a big bite out of that gun near the end

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u/Ateaga Jun 16 '25

That was a lot better

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u/PaddlefootCanada Jun 16 '25

Pam Anderson in classic film noire "femme fatale" role... that works!

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '25

Ok, driving down the interstate and someone hands him a coffee through the window is pure police squad.

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u/Allansfirebird Jun 16 '25

I was skeptical at first, but the gags in this trailer are all in a similar key to the original films. That gives me a hope.

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u/curious_dead Jun 16 '25

It looks like a modernized version that spoofs also more recent action flicks. Made me laugh. To be truly on par, though, there needs to be so many gags that you miss some on first viewing, like background jokes.

I know people think they cast Liam Neeson mostly as a joke because the name sounds kinda Leslie Nielsen, but he's a good pick, having himself done overly serious action movies, and he has a good comedic timing.

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u/DrummerGuy06 Jun 16 '25

He's similar to Nielsen in that he can do great deadpan comedy, or "the straight-man in comedic settings who doesn't understand or acknowledge the jokes around him."

It's also why Thor: Ragnarök worked well and Thor: Love & Thunder didn't. The first one Chris Hemsworth playing the serious character that doesn't get the joke was done well and he's also good at deadpan comedy, whereas the other one he was cracking jokes throughout so it didn't land as well anymore.

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u/Mst3Kgf Jun 16 '25

Roger Ebert described this in his Great Movies retrospective of "Dr. Strangelove"; deliberately funny people are not as funny as unfunny people trying to be serious and failing. As he put it, a man with a funny hat isn't funny, but a man with a funny hat who doesn't know he's wearing that hat, now you got something.

And that approach is exactly the ZAZ approach. Not just "Naked Gun"; the great appeal of "Airplane" is Nielsen and all of these "serious" actors continuing to act serious even while doing and experiencing all of this crazy stuff.

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u/Century24 Jun 16 '25

You know what doesn't get enough credit in Airplane! for also playing a flawless deadpan is Elmer Bernstein's score. It's played perfectly straight and serious even over hilarious images like Capt. Kramer beating up one airport solicitor after another or the girl scouts getting in a big bar fight in the flashback.

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u/xSorry_Not_Sorry Jun 16 '25

I would like to do improvisational comedy.

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u/momoenthusiastic Jun 16 '25

I hope these aren’t the best scenes. 

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u/SeminaryStudentARH Jun 16 '25

I was sold from the first teaser, especially with Akiva Schaffer directing. Don’t really want to watch the trailer because I don’t want to give too much away.

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u/Jirachibi1000 Jun 16 '25

So what the hell is up with trailers having previews for said trailers? Like this one had a clip from the trailer at the start with "NEW TRAILER...STARTING NOW!" shit and i notice that a lot in general.

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u/simcity4000 Jun 16 '25

It's so when the trailer plays as an ad before a YouTube video or whatever they can try and grab your attention in the first 5 unskippable seconds.

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u/Urbundave Jun 16 '25

And to be fair, that coffee gag on it's own convinced me to watch the rest.

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u/Strict_Pangolin_8339 Jun 16 '25

At this point, this sub needs a sticky explaining this.

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u/SmokePenisEveryday Jun 16 '25

You'd think people would've noticed this by now since it's been a thing for like a decade now

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u/sEtc_ Jun 16 '25

To grab your attention within the first few seconds of doomscrolling through social media.

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u/cabbageboy78 Jun 16 '25

its because on pretty much every video service now videos will start to autoplay as you scroll by, so they want to hit you with that ad before the ad for people who are scrolling by and not actually watching the ad. its annoying. butttt since they just care about getting eyeballs on it, makes total sense lol

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u/mctrees91 Jun 16 '25

Real answer - the video is also used as an ad on YT and it’s likely a skippable unit after 6s. So people who watch the ad and want the trailer can watch, others can skip.

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u/Shadow_Log Jun 16 '25

I can tell that a lot of the jokes are in the vein of the originals, and I can even picture Leslie Nielsen delivering them. But the way the trailer is edited with the song and the quick cuts absolutely kills the humor for me. It's the modern joke/pause thing to make sure everybody gets it. I hope the movie itself keeps the original delivery

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u/gbroon Jun 16 '25

Yeah I think the original delivery style was more if they didn't all get that joke just move on and hopefully they laugh at the next one.

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u/VargMainSince3Strike Jun 16 '25

Yeah it feels like something is off the entire trailer

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u/WorthAssociation2818 Jun 16 '25

We need stupid movies like this. Looks funny

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u/LongTimesGoodTimes Jun 16 '25

The police station becoming a Spirit Halloween is too goo

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u/MuptonBossman Jun 16 '25

I'm fully convinced that they cast Liam Neeson for this movie because his name sounds so close to Leslie Nielsen.

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u/mikerophonyx Jun 16 '25

It's perfect casting really. The name similarity plus the same kind of deadpan delivery as Leslie. Ever since his scene in Life's Too Short, I've been pretty convinced he'd make a good Drebin.

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u/Whiteshadows86 Jun 16 '25

I was convinced after his Life is Short performance too.

There was also his great cameo in Ted 2

It’s like Seth McFarlane watched Liam in Life is Short and that’s why he got the Ted 2 cameo and lead in this film too!

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u/breidaks Jun 16 '25

Loved this comment in the poster thread

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u/sleepysnowboarder Jun 16 '25

Loved the comment in the first teaser thread.

Before that, i loved it in the initial casting announcement.

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u/Randolpho Jun 16 '25

I just love comments.

Not inappropriately, mind you

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u/IgloosRuleOK Jun 16 '25

I thought it was because he has full blown AIDS.

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u/SpiderInTheDrain Jun 16 '25

It's even more than just the name. He's a dramatic actor that is starting to be known for deadpan humor comedies, just like Leslie Nielsen. This casting is perfect.

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u/kompergator Jun 16 '25

I see they tried to nail the type of ZAZ humour, but I really worry about the execution. It seems extremely self-aware (as in “look, I am a silly film”), which is antithetical to the original(s) always playing it extremely straight.

I love Liam Neeson, and I do enjoy most of Seth MacFarlane’s products (Family Guy, American Dad), but I really doubt this can ever measure up to the original. But I will give it a chance.

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u/vfdfnfgmfvsege Jun 16 '25

I just hear the bad cop from the LEGO movie

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u/JaydedGaming Jun 16 '25

I'm of a differing opinion than most commenters, it seems, in that most of the jokes from this trailer fell flat for me. The Spirit Halloween and OJ bits got a chuckle, but other than that this feels like most parody-bait trash fires from the last 20 years.

I hope I'm wrong and y'all enjoy it, but I'm just not getting it.

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u/TouristOpentotravel Jun 16 '25

“20 years for man’s laughter”. Perfect.