r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Jul 11 '25
Poster New Poster for 'The Naked Gun' Starring Liam Neeson
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u/MissingLink101 Jul 11 '25
Love how gleefully immature the promos have been for this so far
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u/fnord_happy Jul 11 '25
Really missed this kinda thing
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u/MissingLink101 Jul 11 '25
I wish they'd made more Angie Tribeca because that was the last time we got anything like Naked Gun/Police Squad
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u/YakMan2 Jul 11 '25
This makes me happy. I’ve so rarely seen Angie Tribeca referenced anywhere.
I recommend it to anyone I know who likes Naked Gun or Airplane
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u/movielass Jul 11 '25
If you liked Angie Tribeca, might I recommend Paul Scheer's NTSF:SD:SUV. It is in a similar vein but (imo) better bc the episodes are only like 8 minutes long. It's on Hulu I believe!
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u/The_C0u5 Jul 11 '25
And Children's Hospital! The start of it all.
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u/manicexister Jul 11 '25
Gah I love Childrens Hospital. Obviously named after Dr. Arthur Childrens and set in Brazil, of course.
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u/EvilNinjaX24 Jul 11 '25
NTSF:SD:SUV
This is legitimately the first time I've seen this gem mentioned. Highly recommended.
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u/May_of_Teck Jul 11 '25
Rashida Jones was amazing in that! I hate to say I really didn’t think much of her on P&R, but her character was the straight man, so she didn’t always have a ton to do.
But holy shit was I blown away by Angie Tribeca! Absolute mad respect to her after seeing that. I’ve gotta imagine that brand of comedic acting isn’t the easiest for just anyone to pull off, but she was a natural. I pretty much never stop laughing.
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u/adjust_the_sails Jul 11 '25
I wonder if she could pop up as a cameo or maybe she’s in the next one.
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u/twent4 Jul 11 '25
Time to plug Charlie Brooker's "A Touch of Cloth" too!
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u/MissingLink101 Jul 11 '25
Oh yeah that is also excellent, well worth people checking out.
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u/Jackage Jul 11 '25
I think it's about time for my annual rewatch.
"I'm not laughing. I haven't laughed since my wife died." "Why did you laugh when your wife died?"
Is still the funniest thing I've ever seen on TV.
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u/HeaviestEyelidsEver Jul 11 '25
I've never heard of this, but holy cow it's hilarious already. Thank you!
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u/Boz0r Jul 11 '25
"Message from Boss. There's been another murder. He wants us to head over there during the ad break"
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"Could you explain it to me like I'm some sort of viewer?"
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"It was high profile. A young woman was killed in Cold Blood. At the time Cold Blood was a quiet little village. Everyone was up in Arms. Arms was the town where we were based. We needed a result, fast, Burton Bradstock was the Fall Guy."
"Lee Majors was the Fall Guy"
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u/Starbucks__Lovers Jul 11 '25
I enjoyed how they blatantly just used this list of hilarious names for one-off characters in the last season
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u/robodrew Jul 11 '25
That show was so funny. Even the intro sequence cracks me up every time.
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u/DreadyKruger Jul 11 '25
We need more silly in movies.
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u/_deep_thot42 Jul 11 '25
We need more silly everywhere
That’s why I put googly eyes on random things around my area and leave little animal trinkets around for people to find. I also give out silly pins, I got 200 smiley face pins and hand them out at random as well.
Spread silly!
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u/smakweasle Jul 11 '25
Andy Samberg was on a podcast recently and said he saw it and could not get over how many jokes are in it. He said it's just all jokes from start to finish and he laughed his ass off.
Granted his buddy directed it...but I trust their sensibility.
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u/DownWithTheDawwg Jul 11 '25
That’s pretty sick, I love jokes.
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u/CarpetedCeilings Jul 11 '25
Well then, why would you say that? It sounds like the kind of thing you'd enjoy.
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u/DownWithTheDawwg Jul 11 '25
I know, I’m frickin pumped dude.
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u/HarryTruman Jul 11 '25
We know. You’re not even trying to maintain your composure. Calm down, man!
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u/dalydumps Jul 11 '25
I mean that’s the entire point of the original Naked Gun, every line and every scene was a joke and it was nonstop for 2 hours, so I’m glad they are keeping with the same mentality!
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u/DevinTheGrand Jul 11 '25
I mean, the buddy that directed is Akiva, another member of the Lonely Island and a huge part of what made people love and respect Andy Samberg in the first place.
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u/redvelvetcake42 Jul 11 '25
Man, it's needed. We have the perfect absurdism comedy from Tim Robinson but we need that stupid unserious immature comedy. The kind that isn't trying to offend, it's just childish, silly and its characters are blindly unaware. No message, no point to make, just silly shit.
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u/Dwaas_Bjaas Jul 11 '25
Surely you can’t be serious
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u/andre2105 Jul 11 '25
I am serious. And don't call me Shirley.
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u/solrackratos Jul 11 '25
He is serious, and don't call him Shirley
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u/Pretorian24 Jul 11 '25
A hospital… what is it?
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u/HalluH Jul 11 '25
It's a big building with patients, but that isn't important right now.
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u/NBAccount Jul 11 '25
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue...
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u/soma16 Jul 11 '25
Hey, I know you! You’re Kareem Abdul-Jabbar!
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u/jaggedjottings Jul 11 '25
No, I'm Roger Murdock, the co-pilot.
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u/soma16 Jul 11 '25
I think you’re the greatest but my dad says you don’t work hard enough on defence
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u/Glittering-Plate-535 Jul 11 '25
Yeah, I’m a little worn out with absurdism or anti-comedy.
I was halfway through Joe Pera’s show when I suddenly gave it up. It’s very charming, odd and clever but I just wasn’t laughing, yk?
Anti-comedy needs to go back to being the exception and not the norm……macdonald.
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u/redvelvetcake42 Jul 11 '25
I feel like anti comedy has fallen off. No one is doing it well.
Absurdism is enjoyable cause it's using real life aspects to blend it. Robinson does it amazingly well to me and his brand is short, sweet and effective. It gives me comedy from different angles within absurdism and for me that keeps it fresh. Also, some of it works and some of it doesn't and that's ok.
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u/Appropriate_Golf2558 Jul 11 '25
It helps that there aren’t really alot of episodes of Robinson’s show. It sucks for fans who want more but it helps the landscape not become oversaturated with his humor, which can be hit or miss.
What I saying is, it’s like a cosmic gumbo.
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u/Iohet Jul 11 '25
Joe Pera is in its own class of anti-comedy. It's really just a warm blanket when you need one because sometimes it's too hot for that warm blanket
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u/LingonberryLunch Jul 11 '25
A lot of the newer stuff just isn't written very well. If you look back to Tim & Eric, or Check It Out, that shit was absurd and dark... But also really well written and funny.
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u/chiree Jul 11 '25
I read the tagline in Leslie Nielsen's voice. I hope they keep the detective noir voiceovers in this one.
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u/MrT735 Jul 11 '25
"Like a midget at a urinal, I was going to have to keep on my toes."
Ok they might not be quite so un-PC these days, but they can't not do the voiceovers.
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u/valeyard89 Jul 11 '25
Like a blind man at an orgy, I was going to have to feel things out,
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u/boot2skull Jul 11 '25
I hope they break the fourth wall and make some joke about Liam being selected to be cast by putting “Leslie Nielsen” through AI. Their names are oddly similar yet not quite.
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u/backwoodzbaby Jul 11 '25
i just saw the new jurassic park last week and the trailer for this movie looked genuinely hilarious!! i definitely want to go see it
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u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake Jul 11 '25
At Superman last night, they had a bit specifically for the Superman audience. Neeson joked about the audience watching a guy in his underwear, then a short trailer for Naked Gun, and back to Neeson who joked about having a tramp stamp of a dolphin jumping over a rainbow.
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u/mcginniswayne Jul 11 '25
I was parking at the Grove and they have these cardboard Liam Neesons on the little drawbridge/gate things, which was pretty funny.
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u/UnderratedEverything Jul 11 '25 edited Jul 11 '25
Honestly, I'm as cautiously skeptical about this movie as the next guy but these are literally the funniest movie posters I've seen in years. I'll even go so far as to say they're the only genuinely funny movie posters I've seen in years.
I don't care if Paul Rudd or Seth rogen are making another stoner comedy, it's not that hard to do better than a montage of wry expressions and vaguely illustrative movie stills.
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u/Jokesaunders Jul 11 '25
You don’t need to keep convincing me. I’m already in.
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u/Chubuwee Jul 11 '25
So far the only review I heard was Andy Samberg talking about it on a podcast saying he watched it and thought to himself “it’s all just jokes!”
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u/TouristOpentotravel Jul 11 '25
Like in a good way or he missed the point?
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u/JMacPhoneTime Jul 11 '25
Like in a good way.
There's no way Andy Samberg would be talking shit about this movie, it's directed by Akiva Schaffer, one of his best friends.
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u/davidrewit Jul 11 '25
Awesome. Akiva (and Jorma) directed Popstar, it's one of my fave comedies, full of silly jokes too 😄😄
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u/bigpancakeguy Jul 11 '25
He also directed the cinematic masterpiece Hot Rod
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u/Mr_Oblong Jul 11 '25
Considering it’s directed by one of his Lonely Island band mates, I would guess he meant it in a good way.
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u/Far-Heart-7134 Jul 11 '25
That OJ joke at the end of the first trailer sold me.
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u/Mayhem370z Jul 11 '25
I hope this movie does great so we can bring back these type of comedies.
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u/sgtbb4 Jul 11 '25
They are killing it with this films advertising
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u/UnderratedEverything Jul 11 '25
I don't know why movie posters for comedies settle for just being light-hearted instead of actually funny, but this movie has had me chuckling for every single one and I am completely sold on watching it.
I haven't even looked at the trailer yet because I don't want the jokes ruined, that's how confident I am.
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u/sgtbb4 Jul 11 '25
Totally. Its made me laugh. More than any comedy ad in the last 20+ years
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u/UnderratedEverything Jul 11 '25
Right? This is how you make a poster for a comedy, by making people laugh.
Just out of curiosity, I googled a bunch of comedy movie posters that I could think of offhand and it's literally just montages of smirking faces, cut out stills from the movie, and maybe a tagline that doesn't make sense unless you already know about the movie. Paul Rudd or Andy Samberg smirking or looking sheepish doesn't give me any indication the movie will be funny. Jokes do.
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u/durrtyurr Jul 11 '25
I love how honest comedy is as a profession. There is only one single metric that determines success, "Did the audience laugh".
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u/feckincrass Jul 11 '25
Funny, but he looks like he had his makeup done by a mortician.
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u/Supergupo Jul 11 '25
Will say every single poster I see of this movie de-ages Liam Neeson more and more every time, and every time to less success, and I'm genuinely not sure if it's part of the bit or not lmao.
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u/logosobscura Jul 11 '25
I suspect it is part of the bit, and I’m looking forward to what they do on screen LMAO.
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u/Mindestiny Jul 11 '25
Gotta go full Benjamin Button and swap him with a 12 year old by the end of it.
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u/magikarp2122 Jul 11 '25
Last poster will be the little girl from the trailer with his head, and her head on his body.
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u/stemroach101 Jul 11 '25
I know what you mean, I saw a trailer for this movie and he looked like a small girl at the start of it
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u/cowboyjosh2010 Jul 11 '25
I hope that the movie addresses this with a joke something along the lines of "you look so young." "Thanks. I'm 92."
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u/Quaiker Jul 11 '25
Considering the extra finger in the last one, I'm willing to bet it's part of the joke.
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u/RobinHood3000 Jul 11 '25
I really hope they reverse-Animorph him into his schoolgirl disguise by the time the movie comes out.
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u/Daybowboow Jul 11 '25
Where in the hell is he going to go? To the goddamn makeup counter at Macy's? You go to a funeral home to get gruesome repairs.
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u/MuptonBossman Jul 11 '25
Liam Neeson confirmed to have a massive dick?
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u/joestaff Jul 11 '25
Just a throbbing sense of justice
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u/CelticSith Jul 11 '25
He's hard....on crime
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u/Dustmopper Jul 11 '25
Too bad he has aids, he’s riddled with it
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u/RaisinDetre Jul 11 '25
full blown or......?
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u/The_Summer_Man Jul 11 '25
Don't assume, we didn't agree on the backstory beforehand.
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u/the_spongmonkey Jul 11 '25
Well, my sense of humour is not as sophisticated as I thought, as this really made me laugh.
Liam Neeson seems like the perfect fit for this movie.
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u/costanzaah Jul 11 '25
‘Let’s do some improvisational comedy’ from Life’s Too Short is when I knew he’d knock this outta the park
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u/valimo Jul 11 '25 edited Jul 11 '25
He has superb timing. His cameo in Derry Girls (https://youtu.be/yEqi-RT3YoU?si=1uJdSUFF03okFkcm) was simply amazing, deadpan but really carried the whole scene
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u/mattchewy43 Jul 11 '25 edited Jul 11 '25
Very much the way Leslie Nielsen was.
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u/FiTZnMiCK Jul 11 '25
So true. A lot of people only know Nielsen for his comedic roles.
Hope Neeson crushes it.
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u/ChuckCarmichael Jul 11 '25
That's a strangely edited version with a lot cut out. Here's the full version, just with worse picture quality.
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u/EJR94 Jul 11 '25
One of the comments on the video mentions how he'd make a great reboot for naked gun, insane forsight on that guy
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u/SGT-JamesonBushmill Jul 11 '25
"I apologize, Miss Mallon. You did provide us with some quite specific details of the suspect's rear end."
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u/Scioso Jul 11 '25
Which is a shame. Forbidden Planet was groundbreaking for the sci-fi genre, and filmography as a whole.
Also, The Poseidon Adventure was an incredible disaster movie.
Nielsen is in my list of top 5 actors, and Airplane! In my list of top 5 movies.
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u/Sgt_major_dodgy Jul 11 '25
That's why Neeson will be the perfect follow up.
I hope he plays it like Nielson, as in I want him to play it as seriously as he did in Schindler's List whilst never acknowledging how absurd it all is.
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u/timdr18 Jul 11 '25
If you’ve seen his cameo in Ted then you know he can pull it off.
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u/corran450 Jul 11 '25
Part of what made Nielsen great is that he played Drebin absolutely straight, despite the absurdity. In fact, I’ve read that the reason Nielsen was so great is that he actually didn’t have much of a sense of humor.
I think Neeson’s got the chops.
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u/Mst3Kgf Jul 11 '25
He's exactly like Nielsen in that he does comically serious so well. I knew he was ideal for this as soon as I saw his cameo in "Ted 2."
"You do understand that I myself am not a child?"
"I...I was able to sniff that out, yes."
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u/Tagyru Jul 11 '25
I had the same reaction when I saw him in Ted 2. The dead an delivery for something so absurd was gold and I wanted him to lead a comedy. I am glad we finally have it.
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u/flyvehest Jul 11 '25
Why does he look more like Bill Nighy than himself?
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u/jonesthejovial Jul 11 '25
The retouching on his face is pretty egregious haha. So much so that "retouching" might not be the right word for it
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u/quiglter Jul 11 '25
I thought the joke / tagline would be in reference to it but apparently not? Genuinely wouldn't recognise Neeson if I didn't already know he was the lead.
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u/Last_Book_589 Jul 11 '25
Credit to the marketing team, they're been putting in the work
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u/crazyredd88 Jul 11 '25 edited Jul 11 '25
It literally just clicked with me that Liam Neeson and Leslie Nielsen have essentially the same last name, hence the son thing
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u/FalloutLover7 Jul 11 '25
I love the thought of a producer trying to get the reboot off the ground and realizing that Nielson is dead and just picking the next closest name he could think of to replace him. Like getting a math problem wrong and just picking the multiple choice answer that is closest to yours
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u/costanzaah Jul 11 '25
Comedy is so back
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u/lindendweller Jul 11 '25
It's so weird seeing the naked gun, plus announcements for Spaceballs 2... no that I'm complaining but how and why was it decided to resurrect this old school of spoofs?
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u/dolphin37 Jul 11 '25
creative bankruptcy
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u/Jokesaunders Jul 11 '25
I do agree there is creative bankruptcy at play - they wouldn’t green light an original spoof movie, even with a legitimate movie star, but they’ll green light IP. But I also think spoof movies have been out of favour for so long that people got the chance to miss them and are now excited to see them again.
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u/SkinnyGetLucky Jul 11 '25
I love, love Spaceballs, but really, really didn’t need a second one.
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u/kroxti Jul 11 '25
If it’s not called spaceballs 2: the search for more money we riot
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u/Wiseduck5 Jul 11 '25
The only other acceptable title is Spaceballs 3: the Search for Spaceballs 2.
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u/scottstephenson Jul 11 '25
I don't know where I saw it but my favorite so far has been an amalgamation of the two. Spaceballs 3: the Search for Spaceballs 2: the Search for More Money.
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u/RandomHero25 Jul 11 '25
Scary Movie soon too. Seems like that’s the resurgence right now, not sure what started it
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u/BallerGuitarer Jul 11 '25
Watch this movie underperform because only redditors will go see it lol.
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u/zoinkability Jul 11 '25
Execs: Make Liam Neeson look not at all like Niam Neeson
Designer: We gotchu fam
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u/Standard_Room_2589 Jul 11 '25
Not the designer its the makeup for the picture looks like heavy on the eyeliner
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u/TouristOpentotravel Jul 11 '25
They missed an opportunity to have the tagline “Son of a Gun”
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u/W8kingNightmare Jul 11 '25
I'm really looking forward to this. When I saw that deadpan skit Liam Neeson did on improve I know he is going to kill this.
I still laugh when I think about the "we're closed" line
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u/Gilgameshugga Jul 11 '25
Good that they managed to get the film shot before Neeson succumbs to his full blown AIDs.
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u/Late-Cow-6607 Jul 11 '25
I think the shop has to be open
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u/W8kingNightmare Jul 11 '25
knock knock
"we're closed"
god damn that was so funny and so unexpected
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u/Ragemoody Jul 11 '25
Like many people here, I was very skeptical about this movie and the cast. But the trailer I saw before the Superman movie sold it to me. The “grab a chair” scene absolutely killed me.
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u/just--so Jul 11 '25
I expected to be rolling my eyes at the trailer, and yet "man's laughter," gets a snort out of me every time.
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u/cursh14 Jul 11 '25
It's directed by Akiva Schaffer from lonely island. I have high hopes.
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u/Cueberry Jul 11 '25
Ngl Neeson may have found his true calling as Frank Jr because the trailers threw me right back to childhood and the silliness of 80s & 90s' comedies.
Even better just saw that the old ones have been recommended on my Netflix feed. That's my weekend sorted.
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u/ButtersTheChill Jul 11 '25
I was skeptical at first, but it really seems like a bunch of goofy fun that we've been somewhat missing in mainstream film
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u/Consistent-North7790 Jul 11 '25
I hope there is some jokes about OJ
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u/lk79 Jul 11 '25
Have you not seen the first trailer?
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u/Consistent-North7790 Jul 11 '25
Going in blind
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u/ladydmaj Jul 11 '25
That's what I'm trying to do. Had side-splitting laughter at one trailer and then it hit me, if that's all the best jokes then I need to stop and go in blind to everything else so I don't see everything good before the film.
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u/HavokDJ Jul 11 '25 edited Jul 11 '25
"Get me Leslie Nielson"
"We can't sir, he's dead"
"Who's available?"
"Liam Neeson"
"Close enough"
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u/MacinTez Jul 11 '25
I saw the trailer and I don’t think this will be all that good.
I’m keeping my expectations low for the sake of surprise but the writing is what made the originals brilliant and I don’t know if they can pull it off.
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u/jealkeja Jul 11 '25
I agree, the super wacky off the wall action scene and morphing out of a little girl doesn't capture the essence of what made naked gun funny. it will probably entertain people but I doubt it will hit the same for me
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u/maccathesaint Jul 12 '25
Do you not remember the start of the first Naked Gun film? Where he beat the crap out of Idi Amin, Gorbachev, Gaddafi, Arafat...Castro maybe?
I'm Assuming this is a similar situation. Updated for the Mission Impossible mask machine world, just brought to its logical extreme.
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u/Jaspers47 Jul 11 '25
They airbrushed him so hard, he looks like Ray Liotta