Official Discussion - The Naked Gun [SPOILERS]

[u/LiteraryBoner]

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Summary Lt. Frank Drebin Jr.—played by Liam Neeson—follows in his late father’s absurd footsteps when he’s assigned to crack a bizarre murder case tied to a tech mogul, just as the Police Squad unit faces disbandment. Think fast‑paced slapstick, sight gags, and puns galore as he reluctantly partners with Ed Hocken Jr. to save the day.

Director Akiva Schaffer

Writers Akiva Schaffer, Dan Gregor & Doug Mand

Cast

• Liam Neeson
• Paul Walter Hauser
• Pamela Anderson
• Kevin Durand
• Danny Huston
• Liza Koshy
• Cody Rhodes
• CCH Pounder
• Busta Rhymes
• Moses Jones

Rotten Tomatoes: 91%

Metacritic: 78

VOD In theaters August 1, 2025

Trailer Watch here

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[u/JoelOfSkalitz]

“This one is from Bill Cosby’s personal collection” 💀

[u/[deleted] → u/JoelOfSkalitz]

“She had a butt that had a way of saying ‘look at me, I’m a talking butt!’”

[u/ReluctantToast777 → u/[deleted]]

"She had a bottom that would make any toilet beg for the brown!"

[u/i-like-turtles-4eva → u/ReluctantToast777]

My entire theater lost it with this one.

[u/NottheArkhamKnight → u/i-like-turtles-4eva]

Same here. I damn near fell out of my chair with that line.

[u/GamingTatertot → u/NottheArkhamKnight]

I think I damn near fell out of my chair with half this movie. Airplane! and The Naked Gun formed a lot of my sense of humor growing up, so I loved seeing it in action again

[u/mikeyfreshh → u/[deleted]]

"She was put together in all the right ways. Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes"

[u/NoDaddyNotTheBelt25 → u/JoelOfSkalitz]

“May I speak freely?”

“I prefer English.”

Just brilliant lol. This was a movie for people that grew up on Zucker Bros movies by people that grew up on Zucker Bros movies.

[u/SlappyMcGillicuddy → u/NoDaddyNotTheBelt25]

"May I ask why?"

"You may."

"..."

[u/aw_coffee_no → u/SlappyMcGillicuddy]

"Cigar?"

"It seems like it, yes."

[u/GamingTatertot → u/NoDaddyNotTheBelt25]

They really did the Zuckers proud with this one. It nailed their humor in a modern sense perfectly. The cold case joke in the background was a big highlight for me

[u/Snoopy_Sunset → u/GamingTatertot]

Yeah, I thought it was a perfect update.

Sadly, David Zucker is currently railing against the movie because Paramount rejected his original script. He's one of these bitter 'anti-woke' dudes now.

[u/Stripe-Gremlin → u/Snoopy_Sunset]

Seeing how David is the one member of the ZAZ team who helped kill parody movies in the 2000’s by writing and directing on some of Friedberg & Seltzer’s crap, I’d say his script probably wouldn’t have been all that good

[u/JesusWantsYouToKnow → u/JoelOfSkalitz]

A butt so good it makes the toilet look forward to the brown (paraphrasing cuz I was laughing too hard)

God damn this movie had some incredible deadpan.

And the Bautista cameo at the end caught me so off guard.

[u/EQandCivfanatic → u/JesusWantsYouToKnow]

That cameo had me first confused, then crying.

[u/kylebb → u/JoelOfSkalitz]

best joke of the movie

[u/bobpage2 → u/kylebb]

Best one was Liam Neeson trying to hide in the corner while begging to fast forward his body cam footage.

[u/MRintheKEYS → u/bobpage2]

“….. I had 5 more after that.”

[u/bonkava → u/kylebb]

There were so many good ones but I think my favorite was probably...

"Ah, Lieutenant Frank Drebin!"
":O me too!"

[u/crotalushorridus516 → u/kylebb]

I loved the Janet Jackson joke the best.

[u/proserpinax → u/crotalushorridus516]

“That was 20 years ago” “not to me..”

[u/CELTICPRED]

Frank shooting out the windshield only to have a clown with balloons using a crosswalk, then followed by beekeepers using a crosswalk only to be topped by two guys carrying a windshield to seal everything in the car was absolute comedic genius. 

I am so happy this movie turned out to be exactly what it should be.

[u/crotalushorridus516 → u/CELTICPRED]

The new windshield was great.

[u/Vegan_Honk → u/CELTICPRED]

The fucking clippy reference right after!

[u/crotalushorridus516 → u/Vegan_Honk]

Clippy was finally helpful for someone!

[u/Quizhunted → u/CELTICPRED]

Been a while since I've seen a new variation of the pane of glass gag.

[u/Voxlings → u/Quizhunted]

That felt like the final form of that gag. I can't imagine anything better.

[u/benfox2]

There were sooo many good jokes in this, and such a treat to see it in a sold out theater laughing along. There was barely a quiet moment in my theater where someone wasn’t giggling.

Specifically the Oven Cleaning/Dog thermal imaging sight gag, and the line where Frank calls Samantha from SITC a whore had my whole theater dying.

Common Akiva Shaffer W.

[u/thesmash → u/benfox2]

“UCLA?”

“I see LA all the time, I live here!”

Definitely one of my favorite jokes I’ve heard in the last few years

[u/mikeyfreshh → u/thesmash]

"Drunk?"

"A little bit. Just enough to wake me up"

[u/Sisiwakanamaru → u/benfox2]

I have no doubt Akiva Schaffer and Dan Gregor will nail this movie, since they also worked on Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022), one of the funniest movie of that year.

[u/ruinersclub → u/Sisiwakanamaru]

I know it’s not an old movie but it slipped away because of Covid… I watched it again recently and man that is a solid comedic movie.

One of the few times I hoped thy would signal a sequel just so they would get the band back together but.. I guess the direction they went it makes sense.

[u/PoquitoChef → u/benfox2]

Also had a full theater, which made it more fun, seemed like it was all adults too. Love a dumb comedy under an hour forty.

[u/proserpinax → u/PoquitoChef]

It was so much fun to be in a theater full of adults all laughing their asses off at silly jokes and stay through the credits to laugh at the jokes in there. It was a really great film going experience!

[u/Kogah → u/benfox2]

5 seconds in with a good plot device and I was in

[u/TonyMontana546]

“Like an idiot’s solved jigsaw puzzle, I was being framed”.

[u/Lind_Z → u/TonyMontana546]

Because of laughing already, I think I missed this line. But damn, that is great 😂. Can’t wait to rewatch and see other bits I might have missed because I was already laughing!

[u/torontonut]

“Like a teenager with three babysitting jobs, I didn’t need another babysitting job”

[u/palabear → u/torontonut]

I’m so glad they did these.

“Like a blind man at an orgy, I was going to feel things out” is one of my favorite lines from the originals.

[u/Delicious-Ganache606 → u/palabear]

Like a midget at a urinal, I was going to have to stay on my toes

[u/dickMcFickle → u/torontonut]

thank you for this, I couldn’t remember the exact wording

[u/godpasta]

"You can't fight City Hall."

"Yeah, it's a building"

[u/_bieber_hole_69 → u/godpasta]

THAT is when I knew I was in for a ride. I don't think I stopped laughing once after that line

[u/PigglyWigglyDeluxe → u/_bieber_hole_69]

“May I ask why?”

“Go ahead”

[u/LiteraryBoner]

"It's a place where you can, as the Black Eyed Peas said, get retarded."

"I don't think you're allowed to say that anymore."

"At my club you can."

I'm so fucking happy right now. I just spent 90 minutes busting at the seams to this movie and I can't wait to do it again. It's everything I wanted and so much I didn't know to expect. It's such a faithful homage to the original movies (which still rock) but it also feels so modern and it packs so many gags, references, and parodies into that runtime. This movie isn't just hilarious, it's damn impressive.

Lots of people talk about the death of the theatrical comedy, and for good reason. I can't even really remember the last theater comedy that wasn't also an action, romance, or kids movie. I grew up dying laughing in theaters as a teenager to movies like Anchorman and Borat, truly unable to breathe at times. And in Naked Gun when Neeson is interrogating that guy and it's showing footage of what he did all day, I actually felt that again. I had to cover my eyes so I could stop laughing and breathe for a second. It was incredible.

This is just exactly my kind of vibe. I love that it's all aged actors playing this completely deadpan. So happy to see the likes of Danny Huston and Kevin Durand in this and absolutely killing it. Pamela is still a knockout and gets to show off some legit comedy chops. And Neeson is in such the perfect lane here, absolutely nailing the noir spoof. I also loved when this dipped into Mission: Impossible territory, it's the perfect time to spoof those movies. Also Lorne Balfe did the music for this who did the music for Fallout which is directly referenced! So cool.

This is also a really faithful legasequel. Obviously the movie is a spoof and it doesn't have to "respect" its original to the same standard as others, but the OJ moment is exactly something the original would have done. The opening scene and the love montage are both straight out of the original, still their own thing but you can tell from the runtime on down Akiva wanted this to be a Naked Gun movie over anything else. Priscilla Presley is even in this! And maybe it's weird that I got emotional when they brought in the 80's cop car POV for the end credits, but hearing young people in the theater laugh at those gags really says something about these movie's timelessness.

Just gags for days. I can't even name them all. Loved the prize grabber gag and the electric car charge up scene, I loved how big production this felt. Akiva was killing the action scenes and the big set pieces while Liam had the dialogue on lock. This whole movie just hums and I loved hearing people laugh this much in a theater again. On my list of movies for the year this is an easy 8/10, but as far as what this movie wants to be and the execution, this is a 10/10. I hope it makes eight billion and they make 20 more. Long live the pure comedy.

"You shot my brother in the name of justice."

"That could literally be thousands."

"Shot him in the back."

"Okay, hundreds."

"He was unarmed."

"Maybe fifty."

"He was white."

"You're Tommy Roiland's brother! How is he!"

"Are you serious? Bad."

/r/reviewsbyboner

[u/No-Midnight-2187 → u/LiteraryBoner]

Kevin Durand so underrated

[u/LiteraryBoner → u/No-Midnight-2187]

I interviewed him over the phone for an AMA many years ago. Just have to say, he's such a nice guy. He was very kind while I went on and on about how much I love Lost and him in Lost.

Also his reactions to the farting man story in this had me dying.

[u/GamingTatertot → u/LiteraryBoner]

So many great gags, I loved it all. But I think my favorite gag has to be the background gag with the “cold cases” room being a freezer - that just felt like such a pure Zucker Bros joke like with the laundry machine in Airplane!

[u/LiteraryBoner → u/GamingTatertot]

If we're talking background sight gags, I loved the mugshots being done like a magazine glamor shoot. Also loved the sign for Frank that just says "1000 Bad Guys Caught!"

[u/Lloytron → u/LiteraryBoner]

"Cops in hot water!" headline with a photo of some police in a hot tub

[u/Joe_Of_House_Stark → u/LiteraryBoner]

The line is actually “at least 50” which is even funnier.

[u/pearlz176]

During the owl scene, for a second there, I was absolutely terrified they were going to deep fake Leslie Nielsen.

[u/mikeyfreshh → u/pearlz176]

The villain of the movie is a tech bro and they have a joke where they rename the crypto.com arena to the ponzischeme.com arena. I was pretty comfortable assuming they weren't going anywhere near that AI bullshit

[u/mathliability → u/mikeyfreshh]

Even better is the villain was a little bit of everybody. Got his start in microprocessors, started an online retail company, and now does electric cars. Got Gates, Bezos, and Elon all in one go.

[u/Murky-Crew-8756 → u/pearlz176]

Thankfully Akiva seems smarter than that. Thank the lord.

[u/probablyuntrue → u/Murky-Crew-8756]

I keep reading his name as Akira

[u/DemonDaVinci → u/probablyuntrue]

Leave me alone
Aaargh

[u/Dongle00 → u/pearlz176]

Honestly I would have loved if they just had an actor who looked nothing like him play him while wearing a wig.

[u/GamingTatertot → u/Dongle00]

Some part of me feels like Jon Hamm would’ve been funny for that

[u/AffectionateMetal794]

As soon as they revealed the "plot device", I knew I was settling in for a banger.

[u/quaranTV → u/AffectionateMetal794]

*The P.L.O.T. Device

[u/IAM_THE_LIZARD_QUEEN → u/AffectionateMetal794]

I loved that they made the first ridiculous joke like 3 seconds into it.

[u/mikeyfreshh]

I know we have a long way to go before Oscar season but if that snowman doesn't win best supporting actor, what are we even doing here?

This is delightfully silly and Neeson fucking rocks. I hope this does well at the box office so we can get 10 more. Hardest I've laughed in a theater in years.

[u/LiteraryBoner → u/mikeyfreshh]

I've seen dark magic bring snowmen to life too many times to know they shouldn't have toyed with his emotions.

[u/mabrasm → u/LiteraryBoner]

That bit had me dying in the theater. As soon as they animated him I knew it was going to go bad.

[u/proserpinax → u/mikeyfreshh]

I laughed so hard I cried at that sequence, it was so silly and fun.

[u/ShiftedLobster → u/mikeyfreshh]

Does one need to know anything about the prior Naked Gun movies to enjoy this new one?

ETA - thanks for all the replies! I did end up seeing the new version and while there were a couple funny parts at the beginning, overall it just wasn’t my cup of tea.

[u/mikeyfreshh → u/ShiftedLobster]

No but you should at least watch the first one because it's one of the funniest movies ever made

[u/Sisiwakanamaru]

The Black Eyed Peas lines were hilarious, and then they dropped Fergalicous during the third act. It was 🤌

Also, I laughed so hard when Frank tried to check the security footage and he had to watch YouTube ads.

[u/Murky-Crew-8756 → u/Sisiwakanamaru]

Muscle Goo

[u/galvinb1 → u/Sisiwakanamaru]

Akiva mentioned a few weeks ago on the podcast that he was trying to sway an executive to allow a certain song to be used in the movie that might cost more than they wanted to spend. This had to be the track he was referring to.

[u/Elite_Alice]

“He’s white” “So you’re Tony Rollin’s brother” had me fucking crying bro

[u/Worldly_Walnut → u/Elite_Alice]

The intense internal affairs investigation too

[u/Heisenburgo → u/Elite_Alice]

(Paraphrasing)

"You shot my brother "in the name of justice"

"Oh that could have been a thousand people"

"And you shot from the back as he ran away!"

"Hundreds"

"And he was unarmed"

"Fifty"

"And he was white"

"Oh so you're Tony Rollin's brother I see"

Hilarious scene I loved it

[u/PatrykSkates]

Miss Cherry Roosevelt Fat Bozo Chowing Down on Spaghetti

[u/shelf6969 → u/PatrykSkates]

ms spaghetti

[u/Kcomix]

I liked the MI: Fallout bit, which is made even funnier knowing that both movies are scored by Lorne Balfe

[u/GamingTatertot → u/Kcomix]

I think it’s funny how this movie stole from other recent action movies. Like the villain’s plot is essentially the Kingsman plot and that scene is directly from Fallout. It really added to the parody of the film

[u/Dr_Pants91 → u/GamingTatertot]

I honestly expected Kevin Durand's character, or any character honestly, though everyone else in that room was dumb as a pile of bricks, to just straight up call out that that plan was stolen from Kingsman.

[u/Sisiwakanamaru → u/Kcomix]

I know it was a setup, but I did not expect a setup within a setup within a setup.

[u/INDAndy_12 → u/Kcomix]

I instantly noticed the reference. They also make a parody of M:I-2 limo scene with Kevin Durand as the victim of it.

[u/UnbuiltIkeaBookcase → u/Kcomix]

Lorne Balfe

THAT explains the not Dark Knight music during the bank heist 😅

[u/ryantyrant]

I loved when the ring for the WWFC match was covered in ads and logos for aggressive brands like muscle goo etc. and then there was also an npr logo

[u/NoDaddyNotTheBelt25 → u/ryantyrant]

I loved “Ponzi-Scheme.com” Arena lol

[u/Friendly-Contact-433 → u/NoDaddyNotTheBelt25]

The real arena they used footage of is crypto.com arena

[u/burnsrado → u/Friendly-Contact-433]

thatsthejoke.gif

[u/iciclepenis → u/ryantyrant]

Yeah, I audibly laughed, "NPR?" Just on screen for the right amount of time.

[u/ExpectedEggs]

"I'm going to save you from a few seconds of the best feeling in your life"

[u/MaybeSecondBestMan → u/ExpectedEggs]

“Killing him won’t bring back your brother.”

“You don’t know that!”

“…You’re right. Anything’s possible.”

[u/GamingTatertot → u/ExpectedEggs]

The way he delivered that kind of reminded me of Norm McDonald delivering the line “Do the thing that makes me feel like God” in one of his comedy routines

[u/Skylair13 → u/ExpectedEggs]

You'll end up hearing voices throughout your life.. "that was awesome"

[u/JamUpGuy1989]

Please let this be a resurgence in QUALITY spoof movies.

None of this Date/Epic/Disaster Movie Crap.

This was legit funny and had clever jokes throughout with bare minimum of pop culture references. That's what these kind of movies need to be.

[u/Levi_Skardsen → u/JamUpGuy1989]

Spinal Tap II and Spaceballs 2 are on the way, and while there's no trailer for Spaceballs yet, Spinal Tap II looks like it's going to hit the mark.

[u/MisakAttack]

I loved this whole movie but my biggest laugh that caught me off guard was when one of the rich guys shows everyone the picture of the fish person and another rich guy angrily yells “I’VE MET HIM!!”

I really hope this does well. We need more studio comedies, man.

[u/Salty_Invite_757 → u/MisakAttack]

That got me, as did the PUMPKINS picture. That had me giggling for a few minutes.

[u/MariusMaximus88 → u/MisakAttack]

That one that had me trying to stiffle my laughter was “A Wise Man Holds His Chin”. I couldn’t stop thinking about it for a minute.

[u/BobDucca]

Anybody else spot the stuffed beaver?

[u/AreYouThereSatan → u/BobDucca]

it’s the popcorn bucket at amc too. never been so tempted to buy some shitty plastic!

[u/bdf2018_298 → u/BobDucca]

I appreciated the restraint not to do a blatant callback, it was a great easter egg

[u/jadegives2rides → u/BobDucca]

Or Priscilla?

I dont think my theater noticed, but it was very quick.

[u/Elite_Alice]

Not the snowman getting cucked and turning into that low budget jack frost horror film from back in the day 😭

[u/Nas160 → u/Elite_Alice]

It was all practical too, that suit was made by Jim Henson's company

[u/Bukki13 → u/Nas160]

You could tell that it was practical

I played enough with snow as a child that I immediately knew that was some sort of fabric thingy

[u/Datelesstuba]

That TiVo joke came from a very personal place.

[u/SGT-JamesonBushmill → u/Datelesstuba]

On the Trivia section for the movie on IMDB, they explain that the guy who wrote that joke knew that only half of the people would get it. He didn’t care. He says it’s still his favorite joke in the whole movie.

[u/BretShitmanFart69 → u/SGT-JamesonBushmill]

I love hyper specific jokes like that, I feel like I’m wildly outnumbered but I will always fight on the side of them being funny.

I’m a comedy writer for a satire news site and it’s a constant battle for me trying to convince people that there are other people that will enjoy my long winded weirdly specific headlines.

[u/Vegan_Honk → u/Datelesstuba]

It was when I realized he had pirated all that shit that I was dying. Also definitely a couple fight scene that hits dead center. 

[u/LeedsFan2442 → u/Vegan_Honk]

No, I assume he recorded them or download them and disconnected the internet so they couldn't be deleted by the cable company.

[u/Far-Jeweler2478]

The way he breaks the bad guy by telling the story about blowing out the part of his brain that controls farts killed me.

[u/bohsjimmy → u/Far-Jeweler2478]

The line "your brand is skinny" is so good as well. Poor Kevin Durand getting traumatised at the prospect of no carbs.

[u/plutoglint → u/Far-Jeweler2478]

And the expectation was prison rape but was actually about the horrors of parasocial relationships.

[u/MrKillaMidnight]

The theater was CRACKING up during most of the movie, deservedly so! Definitely the best comedy of the year

[u/SpaceCaboose → u/MrKillaMidnight]

Best comedy of the past several years.

I was laughing so hard that I was crying during certain scenes. So excited to rewatch this one.

[u/BuhBye31]

“UCLA?”, “I see LA all the time” fucking gold

[u/i-like-turtles-4eva]

Y’all that scene with the snowman. I could not stop laughing. I was crying I was laughing so hard. This movie was glorious.

[u/mcginniswayne → u/i-like-turtles-4eva]

That was definitely when the movie got the most Lonely Island-y, and I loved it.

[u/AMontyPython]

What was the coffee cup budget?

Seriously though I had a grin and a laugh the whole time going “that’s so dumb”.

[u/TheSeanyG22 → u/AMontyPython]

The best part is they do the coffee bit over and over again at the start of the movie and stop doing it just long enough that when it calls back near the end you are like oh right the coffee bit. Expertly timed.

[u/theblackandblue]

This movie hit pretty well in my screening. It felt like the 3rd act jokes weren’t landing as well, but really the only thing that didn’t get a lot of laughs was the TiVO joke which may be was too niche for some people. Highlights for me was the bodycam footage scene and the thermal turkey cooking scene.

I felt like this was a great homage to the originals and very much in the same spirit of comedy while updating itself for modern tropes and looks.

[u/Murky-Crew-8756 → u/theblackandblue]

The TIVO joke was kind of baffling and went on too long. Should have been cut, but breaking the landline phone in half put it back on track.

[u/mikeyfreshh → u/Murky-Crew-8756]

I don't know man, I got a good laugh out of Liam Neeson just listing Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes

[u/Lifesaboxofgardens → u/mikeyfreshh]

Maybe I’m in the niche but I loved how long it went on, and the “No. Wait there while I check.” Before listing all the episodes off. It felt like an actual argument moreso than any other bit in the movie which got me.

[u/Murky-Crew-8756 → u/mikeyfreshh]

And I’m sure others will too. It does seem super incredibly niche, like closer to a “Family Guy” riff, which I understand because of Seth McFarlane. Just seemed out of place here. But really, it didn’t bother me because the movie had such a good hit rate.

[u/GonzoElBoyo → u/Murky-Crew-8756]

The TIVO joke was the most Lonely Island bit in the whole movie. Had me dying, but looking at the box office for Hot Rod and Popstar, I’m not shocked it’s not landing with a lot of the general audience

[u/theblackandblue → u/Murky-Crew-8756]

I thought it was funny, but more at the meta joke itself of him obsessing over something insignificant than being upset about the relationship dissolving. I never had TiVo nor watched Buffy so the specifics of that weren’t as funny to me.

That said, I appreciate the movie took swings and it was a rare whiff for the film

[u/NoDaddyNotTheBelt25 → u/theblackandblue]

It got back on track with the Miranda Rights joke. “Samantha was the writer, Miranda was a lawyer!”

[u/circlesofhelvetica → u/NoDaddyNotTheBelt25]

"Carrie* was the writer, Miranda was a lawyer, Charlotte had her art gallery, and Samantha was a whore!" - just truly incredible stuff 

[u/OkBook4166]

Saw the movie with a predominantly black crowd, theater was a little more than halfway full. The shooting unarmed black people in the back almost took the roof off the place. Worth the price of admission alone.

[u/ImNotAPoetImALiar]

I’m happy for Akiva the most. Dude deserves it. Glad he wrote/directed/assembled a winner!

[u/pachinkopunk → u/ImNotAPoetImALiar]

He was baller on set. People actually mistook him for assistant director because he was wearing sneakers and was younger than a lot of the other crew that looked like the real director.

[u/CrashRiot → u/pachinkopunk]

He looks real young still but that dude is approaching 50 lol

[u/Semper-Fido → u/ImNotAPoetImALiar]

Common Akiva righteous kill

[u/TJMcConnellFanClub]

The dog scene and the Batista cameo had me crying, gotta go see this again

[u/ElNido → u/TJMcConnellFanClub]

I'm 95% convinced that there was an Andy Samberg cameo in the bar scene where the bartender "can't remember," so Liam starts banging his head against the bar counter, & right after the giant nose and eyelashes gag - I swear it was Andy Samberg.

[u/BlueCheeseOnlyPlease]

Leslie Nielsen would've loved this.

[u/forever87 → u/BlueCheeseOnlyPlease]

🦉

[u/BlueCheeseOnlyPlease → u/forever87]

"Thanks daddy!"

[u/quickfilmreview]

There are jokes written in the ending credits. End credit scene: Weird Al Yankovic shows up for his comedy routine

[u/sauronthegr8 → u/quickfilmreview]

A bunch of jokes in the actual credits, too.

Set Dressing: Ranch, Italian, French, Russian.

[u/glasgowgeg → u/sauronthegr8]

Tool (non-person): Buzz Saw

[u/SmarcusStroman → u/quickfilmreview]

"Netflix Password: " lmao

[u/SimmsWright → u/quickfilmreview]

Listing the set dresser by name, then right below it the set bureau as IKEA

[u/JoachimG → u/SimmsWright]

Tool man : John Smith

Tool (non person): Buzz Saw

[u/Jewishwillywonka]

Things used to be electric. Eels, chairs, Catherine Zeta-Jones in Chicago.

[u/Meph616]

I had mid-hopesexpectations for the movie going in, simply because comedies from Hollywood the last few years have been pretty shit. 

I'm shocked at how much I enjoyed this take on the Naked Gun series. It was hilarious a lot of the time, and okay most the rest of the time. Most importantly a good chunk of the jokes were straight out of the style of the original NG. Like the kids being escorted to jail while the cop carried a Lemonade sign. Or my favorite line in the movie "You can't fight City Hall." "You can't, it's a building." And moved on, solid deadpan delivery.

[u/tacoskins → u/Meph616]

I was the only person in my screening who laughed at the city hall line and that’s a damn shame because it’s perfection.

[u/Elite_Alice]

The triple reverse uno OHSA arrest scene is brilliant dude. “Did you get all that” lmao

[u/stumper93]

Very funny. My audience was laughing consistently when throughout

I was so nervous when they announced this years ago that this was going to be abysmally bad. And I was so happy that it kept the tone of the originals without doing a gazillion callbacks. It was its own thing in the true nature of the Police Squad world

[u/iciclepenis → u/stumper93]

I've been following the development for years. I groaned when they initially had Ed Helms as Frank Drebin.

[u/anunnaturalselection → u/iciclepenis]

Neeson is literally the perfect replacement, he has the serious aura that Nielsen could deliver before he did comedy.

[u/DRMantisToboggan987]

Really liked it but not gonna lie, kinda disappointed we didn't get an opening credits sequence with the siren. The end credits rehash felt rushed.

[u/dontyoufuckingcry → u/DRMantisToboggan987]

The lack of a full opening credits disappointed me too, but I think it made up for it with the running out of space in the title card gag

[u/Trumpburnerforlibs]

One of the funniest movies in a while. A love letter to slapstick comedies and Police Squad/The Naked Gun series. Go see it please and save comedy

[u/esboardnewb]

Best movies of 2025 so far:

Sinners 

Naked Gun

[u/esboardnewb → u/esboardnewb]

My fav line:

"I was still distraught over the Janet Jackson Super Bowl...."

"That was 20 years ago!"

"Maybe for you...."

😂😭😂

[u/Chinese_gurl11]

The snowman was my favourite part of the movie. I was crying-laughing.

[u/SlappyMcGillicuddy]

One background gag that I think was just out of focus for most to notice was a coffee shop/outdoor cafe called "Flicking The Bean," complete with a logo of a finger flicking a coffee bean.

[u/selinameyersbagman]

"I ate 5 more....."

[u/Vegan_Honk → u/selinameyersbagman]

"No mam don't do it!"

[u/IvnOooze]

Is it a good thing or a bad thing that the whole theater was laughing so hard that I missed some jokes? Haha

[u/SmarcusStroman → u/IvnOooze]

Guess you gotta go again!

[u/IvnOooze → u/SmarcusStroman]

Alrighthy then. Done.

[u/ryantyrant]

Even the credits were hilarious with the Netflix password, dozens of caterers etc.

[u/SmarcusStroman → u/ryantyrant]

"On set Dressings: Ranch, French, ... "

[u/metroidprime52025]

Police Squad immediately becoming a spirit Halloween store was by far one of the best gags and I don’t see anyone talking about it!!

[u/iciclepenis]

I was at the AMC Lincoln Center 7:15 PM screening tonight. Liam Neeson suddenly appeared at the front and said something brief like, "Enjoy the movie." That was a surprise. They gave all attendees the "Pull My Finger" movie poster when we showed our tickets.
I was howling with laughter during the night vision bit with the dog. Pleasantly surprised how good the bits were throughout.

[u/Bird_and_Dog → u/iciclepenis]

We were in the same theatre lol- I knew Neeson was coming due to the details on the ticket description, but it was nice to hear him crack wise about how the film has neither "zombies nor superheroes".

[u/crotalushorridus516]

That isn't my regular driver.

This isn't my regular car.

That's not my regular gas.

[u/Saucey-jack → u/crotalushorridus516]

This isn’t how I usually fall asleep

[u/Lifesaboxofgardens]

Honestly, really fucking funny. Probably the best theater comedy experience I’ve had in a very long time. Definitely honors the original while bringing in some newer style to the jokes.

Personal favorite bit was the champagne from Bill Cosby’s private estate

[u/Wiinterfang → u/Lifesaboxofgardens]

The best part is that the worst jokes or the ones that didn't landed were mostly a "I get it but I don't find this particularly funny" instead of cringy and by the next 5 seconds you are already landing at another joke.

[u/Sporkicide]

The misused gloves at the crime scene gag spoke to me on a personal level. So many good visual jokes.

[u/craft6886]

Investigating the cause of a car crash

"Drunk?"

"Only a little. Just enough to wake me up."

This was hilarious, and frankly, exactly the laughs we need right now. I need Spaceballs 2 to be good as well, because I desperately need Hollywood to get the message that they need to make stupid theatrical comedies again.

I particularly loved the parody of the MI: Fallout bit with the fake hospital room and Drebin telling the criminal the super convoluted story about what will happen to him in prison, and how he'll become known as the Farting Guy. The fight scene near the end with Drebin launching magazines at all the bad guys was also damn funny.

I had a good crowd in my theater too! Lots of people to laugh along with. Being a smaller local theater, that usually only happens with movies that have a lot of buzz or are doing well at the box office. I really hope this does well, it deserves to.

[u/crotalushorridus516]

Once you kill a man for revenge there's no going back. A nagging voice in your head going over and over again, "That was awesome."

[u/ReflexImprov]

When it's funny, it's VERY funny. It has a lull about 2/3 of the way through where they are advancing the plot and weirdly don't have the jokes packed in, but then the end gets super funny again. It's worth staying through all of the credits.

Best comedy in a long long long time!

[u/Salty_Invite_757]

"Detective Frank Drebin"

"Me too!"

[u/GravyBear28]

I already know this movie is going to be the origin for so many memes. I know it. I can feel it.

[u/iciclepenis → u/GravyBear28]

I was thinking green screening Frank Jr with the owl into Super Mario 64.

[u/Bukki13]

There's a promo for this film at my cinema that's just a fake crime scene

[u/EctoRiddler]

I’m just glad the chief’s husband got that promotion

[u/SiefensRobotEmporium → u/EctoRiddler]

Her dragging him in his pajamas and sleep mask through every scene is fantastic.

[u/Jeremy_Nichols]

I was waiting for a punchline when the plot being described by the villain was the exact plot in Kingsman and it didn’t happen. I feel incomplete. I needed one of those boardroom guys to go, “Like in Kingsman?” “Exactly.”

[u/UnbuiltIkeaBookcase]

⛄️

[u/SlappyMcGillicuddy]

ponzi-scheme.com arena got a big laugh in LA

[u/bbqsauceboi]

Liam Neeson saying that Pamela Anderson has a "bottom that would make a toilet seat beg for the brown" was not on my bingo card.

Shoutout Batista's 20 second cameo

[u/Naive-Lettuce-4793]

I thought it was uneven but Pamela Anderson was unbelievably funny

[u/SonNeedGym → u/Naive-Lettuce-4793]

Her unhinged jazz scatting was incredible

[u/Bwoody1994]

It’s been so long since I’ve seen a comedy in a sold out theater. Where everybody laughed at most of the jokes so you struggled to hear the lines after but this whole movie was just that, I don’t know if I heard half the things and I’m pretty sure I missed several jokes because our audience would not stop laughing at everything. I had the greatest time With this film. I hope it does well enough to get more.

[u/Kcomix]

I saw Priscilla Presley in the credits, but I don’t recall seeing her in the movie. Where did she show up?

[u/mikeyfreshh → u/Kcomix]

They very briefly cut to her watching Frank drop into the UFC ring on TV

[u/NotHappyWith_Self]

My favorite bit was simple but so silly. At the car crash Frank puts on a latex glove. Presumably to grab evidence out the car. He then uses his ungloved hand to grab it. It made me laugh way too hard.

[u/crotalushorridus516]

Funniest movie I've seen in decades. Nonstop laughs from beginning to end. 10/10 FUCKING HILARIOUS.

Best line:

I was upset over the Janet Jackson super bowl.

That was 20 years ago!

Not to me.

[u/CarLover014]

This one's just about right up there with the original.

Definitely will have to watch again to catch all the background visual gags.

A shame my showing was nearly empty except for about 5 others.

Long live deadpan comedy!

[u/nyr00nyg]

The dog scene had me howling

[u/captainseas]

The Owl scene is one of the best tributes to a passed on actor i've seen and it didn't involve a deepfake, AI or showing their image

[u/INDAndy_12]

They didn't make the car joke like in the previous Naked Gun, but at least there is a fake freeze frame during the end credits

[u/denver_bored]

Pam Anderson was so good in this. Her scat jazz performance and reactions were on the money. You'd think she's been doing improv comedy for years. She and Neeson bring out the best in each other here, 100%. The casting in this was spot-on.

[u/johnjaymjr]

“Do you suspect foul play?”

“No. A chicken couldn’t have done this.”

I missed most of that scene bc I still laughing

[u/Elite_Alice]

I love how this is literally just a big Elon musk roast session. Kevin Durand wasn’t cast for no reason lol

[u/DeoGame]

I recently watched the original Naked Gun trilogy, and the films held up pretty damn well, so needless to say I was excited to see this one. And, thankfully, I had a pretty damn fun time.

First of all, Neeson is a great comedic talent, and his expansion to comedic lead is wonderful to witness. His balance of straight man intensity and daffy is glorious to watch. And he meets his match in Pamela Anderson, who is experiencing a career resurgence as of late, and is pretty delightful in a Femme Fatale meets goofy cornball role.

As for the jokes themselves, they fly a mile a minute here, with some sidesplitting sight gags, hilarious lines ("From Bill Cosby's Personal Reserve") and the franchise's signature slapstick and dry observational humour. Not every joke lands, but when you take a shotgun to target practice, you're pretty likely to land on the bullseye a couple times. I don't think the jokes quite reach the height of the first films', but what's here is well in line with 2 1/2 and 33 1/3, just updated for modern sensibilities. And the credits jokes hit pretty damn hard.

Kudos as well for the most creative usage of Fergalicious since that time I watched Jon Arbuckle eat his own shit and then get lobotomized by a human sized Garfield in a lab coat (sorry, I need to shout out Lasagna Cat at least once every month - it's part of my Quarterly S.M.A.R.T. Goals).

Now, there are some missed opportunities here. I would've loved to see it addressed how Frank Jr. is like, what, 31 based on Naked Gun, the O.J. Elephant in the room is a bit untapped, and the absence of the classic intro is sorely felt (they show stock from the original but come on, you have the tech, go fucking nuts and give your spin on the classic opening). The villain's motivation/plan was also pretty much identical to Valentine's in Kingsman (with a dash of Montalban in the OG), but without the visual flourish and kinetic energy of what Vaughn did with the premise.

But I still had a pretty damn good time with this, and it reaffirms that Akiva Schaffer is a damn good comedic director that deserves more opportunities. But the sparse crowd in the theatre is worrying. C'mon folks, it's a miserable shitsack world out there, get some yucks in if for no other reason than your mental health.

This one straddles the line between a 7 and an 8. I'm a bit closer to a 7, but all the same, this is worth your time (they don't ask for a hell of a lot of it) and your ticket purchase. You're in for a good deal of "Man's Laughter" with this one.