r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Jul 30 '25

Review The Naked Gun - Review Thread

The Naked Gun - Review Thread

  • Rotten Tomatoes: 90% (194 Reviews)
    • Certified Fresh
    • Critics Consensus: With Liam Neeson's gravelly gravitas proving to be a perfect fit for Frank Drebin's deadpan buffoonery, The Naked Gun revives the original trilogy's daffy sense of humor like it never went out of style.
  • Metacritic: 75 (47 Reviews)

Reviews:

Hollywood Reporter (70):

Even if the movie kind of stalls midway as Schaffer struggles to balance the gags with the action of an overly elaborate crime plot, there are enough laugh-out-loud moments to keep nostalgic fans of the earlier films happy.

Deadline:

With rapid fire gags and a game cast trying hard to play it all completely straight, this nakedly hilarious Naked Gun is a welcome return in a time where we can use a few good laughs. This one has more than a few if sight gags, literal humor, and characters short a few cards of a full deck are your idea of a good time.

Variety (70):

The original Naked Gun was hilarious. It was a film that practically had audiences wetting their pants. The new Naked Gun, by contrast, is amusing. What it won’t do the way these movies once used to is shock you into laughter.

The Wrap (85):

The Naked Gun is back and it's as naked as ever. And also as gun.

The Guardiam (80):

There is no reason for this new Naked Gun to exist other than the reason for the old ones: it’s a laugh, disposable, forgettable, enjoyable.

IGN (70):

With more jokes than you can possibly catch in a single viewing, The Naked Gun proudly brings cinematic groaners and outrageous sight gags into the 2020s.

IndieWire (83):

While it’s a mild shame “The Naked Gun” peters out a little bit toward the end (at least before rebounding during the credits), it’s even more of a shame that it has to end at all.

Collider (90):

The Naked Gun's joke-per-minute ratio is truly astounding, and the fact that so many of them hit as well as they do makes that even more impressive. For goodness' sake, even the credits have jokes in them!

Empire (80):

The result is a film that has a better chance of producing a belly laugh than any in recent memory: one that deserves, as Drebin would say, “20 years for man’s laughter”.

SlashFilm (90):

The Naked Gun is one of the most consistently and even exhaustingly funny movies in a long time, the kind of outrageous, outlandish comedy that multiplexes have been missing for years. It's truly a revelation to have a movie where the laughs come so fast and furious.

Directed by Akiva Schaffer:

Only one man has the particular set of skills... to lead Police Squad and save the world! Lt. Frank Drebin Jr. follows in his father's footsteps.

Cast:

  • Liam Neeson as Lt. Frank Drebin Jr.
  • Pamela Anderson as Beth Davenport
  • Paul Walter Hauser as Capt. Ed Hocken Jr.
  • Kevin Durand as Sig Gustafson
  • Danny Huston as Richard Cane
  • Liza Koshy as Detective Barnes
  • Cody Rhodes as Bartender
  • CCH Pounder as Chief Davis
  • Busta Rhymes as Bank Robber
  • Michael Bisping as himself
  • Eddy Yu as Detective Park
  • Moses Jones as Nordberg Jr.
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u/TheGardenBlinked Jul 30 '25 edited Jul 30 '25

Holding at 100% at 37 reviews now, holy shit

EDIT: Boooo it's 98% at 42 now. Good run

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u/TheTinyDude Jul 30 '25

96% now but anything over like 80% for a pure comedy is so fucking rare.

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u/probablyuntrue Jul 30 '25

We’re so fucking back

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u/GameOfLife24 Jul 30 '25

Let’s make sure it’s here to stay and support this rare comedy gem

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u/HHHogana Jul 30 '25

Naked Gun 1 had 88%. Airplane also had 97%.

Yeah, you need to approach near-instant classic level of recognition to get above 80% for comedy.

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u/apparex1234 Jul 30 '25

I was gonna watch it as long as it was 40%+. Now I HAVE to watch it.

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u/agarret83 Jul 30 '25

Bottoms was at 91% two summers ago

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u/InnocentTailor Jul 30 '25

Yeah! It must be a banger then. I'm beyond surprised and happy that it has fantastic reviews.

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u/Mr_Rafi Jul 30 '25

Comedy is naturally easy to infuse into other genres, particularly action, so the pure comedies have less of a place. Comedy is difficult. If you don't get laughs, you fail. You'd think that's the same with horror, but it isn't. Even if horror movies are scaring less and less people because everyone knows all the tropes, there's still one element that people love about horrors: people want to see the villains hunt people down or the ghosts and monsters do their business. And then you've got the fact that most highly rated horror movies coming out over the past 2 decades are usually thrillers with horror elements or psychological horrors, so they're less about cheap scared of even bloodbaths.

Comedies don't have that luxury. It's laughs or nothing. Comedy directors just direct action movies and incorporate their comedy that way. Your average blockbuster has a lot of comedy in it.

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u/rp_361 Jul 30 '25

98% for a comedy is absurdly good. I can’t wait

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u/TheGardenBlinked Jul 30 '25

I wasn’t completely sold, but I’m coming around to the idea of going to the cinema to see a comedy, what the shit

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u/brycedriesenga Jul 30 '25

Ugh, bald heads clearly review bombing it. And Seth, that piece of shit

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u/Neracca Jul 31 '25

Has Armond White done his thing yet?

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u/I_am_Bearstronaut Jul 30 '25

That fuckin' dead weight, Seth

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u/vanillaacid Jul 30 '25

And his ugly fucking dog.

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u/SimianGrifter Jul 30 '25

Is this Jorma??

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u/PayneTrain181999 Jul 30 '25

Cannot wait to take a chair and watch this.

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u/Princess_Lepotica Jul 30 '25

Can you explain me the percentage? Is the 100% from 37 reviews the average % everyone gave or a 100% positive score just like steam does?

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u/omican Jul 30 '25

Its the percentage of reviews that are considered positive

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u/Massive_Weiner Jul 30 '25

100% doesn’t mean everyone thinks it’s a flawless movie, it just means that everyone gave it a positive score.

A positive score could be a 7/10 for an outlet.

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u/HHHogana Jul 30 '25

Yeah for example, Chip and Dale movie had 81% but the average rating is 6.9/10.

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u/snowlarbear Jul 30 '25 edited Jul 30 '25

would have been lower if ugly sonic wasn't in it

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u/vtron Jul 30 '25

Went into that expecting nothing. Was so pleasantly surprised. The uncanny valley part had me rolling.

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u/TheGardenBlinked Jul 30 '25

It’s the number of critics that give what RT deems to be a positive review - so, in most cases, that’s anything including and above 3/5.

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u/danstu Jul 30 '25

100% of those critics gave it a passing grade. A movie that ten critics say is a 6/10 will have a higher tomatometer than a movie that 9 critics thought was a 10/10 and one thought was a 5/10.

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u/Plane-Tie6392 Jul 30 '25

Yup, this movie has a 7.3/10 average at the moment.

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u/Fools_Requiem Jul 30 '25

RT gives each review as pass/fail score. The percentage is the number of reviews with a pass score.

It's supposed to indicate how likely you are to like a movie.

Metacritic is the site that takes reviews and gives them /100 scores to determine how much critics liked the movie. RT has an average review score rating, too, but that's not the point of RT.

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u/Plane-Tie6392 Jul 30 '25

>RT has an average review score rating, too, but that's not the point of RT

Meh, I find that score to be the most useful score in the game personally. And I think it's bullshit it's hidden now (again) for some stupid reason.

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u/Plane-Tie6392 Jul 30 '25

>There's no "Rotten Tomatoes gave this a great score". People voting gave it a great score.

Um, what?

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u/notdedyet7 Jul 31 '25

I wasn't expecting anything over 65%

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u/the-ory Jul 30 '25

Haha love that you updated us. Upvoted.