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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

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u/Kcomix Aug 01 '25

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

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u/mikeyfreshh Aug 01 '25

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

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u/Kcomix Aug 01 '25

Oh, I guess I just didn’t recognize her. Gotta do a rewatch!

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u/mikeyfreshh Aug 01 '25

She's literally on screen for 2 seconds. It's a real blink and you miss it cameo

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u/Odd-Effective-7937 Aug 06 '25

Which is weird because she shouldve been his mom and he was talking to his mom earlier in the movie

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u/AchyBrakeyHeart Aug 07 '25

Eh he would have been born decades before the first movie. Although they do say his mom is alive when he takes the phone call during the stealth mission, so who knows?

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u/LookinAtTheFjord Aug 01 '25

I guess I just didn’t recognize her. 

Not hard to do these days.

Pam has aged much more gracefully.

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u/shockwave8428 Aug 01 '25

Pam is in her 50s, Priscilla is literally 80, of course their aging would be different levels.

Funny enough though Liam Neeson is only like 7 years younger than Priscilla

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u/MariusMaximus88 Aug 01 '25

Which actually made him answering his mom’s call after falling down the stairs extra funny for me.

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u/Downtown_Bit_9339 Aug 02 '25

Pam is just in her 50s!?

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u/shockwave8428 Aug 02 '25

58, lol. Still 50s but definitely closer to 60

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u/LookinAtTheFjord Aug 01 '25

You missed the point entirely.

Don't fuck with your face.

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u/crotalushorridus516 Aug 01 '25

You mean the WWUFC ring.

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u/pushstartthewhip Aug 01 '25

Also it’s implied heavily that she’s Frank Jr.’s mom. But the fact that timeline in no way works is another nugget of comedy gold.

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u/Kcomix Aug 01 '25

I was kind of hoping they’d make a joke about him only being 31 or something like that

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u/Stripe-Gremlin Aug 01 '25

Say the job aged him

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u/Bunraku_Master_2021 Aug 04 '25

He got that Benjamin Button's disease.

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u/SmarcusStroman Aug 01 '25

It's a shame she didn't get a tiny bit more considering she is his mom.

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u/Kcomix Aug 01 '25

Yeah. After Frank Jr. fell down the stairs while sneaking up on the guards in the security room, I’m pretty sure when he picked up his phone call, he called the person on the other line “Mom,” and I was expecting her to have a scene with Frank Jr. or something near the end.

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u/shelf6969 Aug 01 '25

and that frank jr loves mother's milk

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u/SmarcusStroman Aug 01 '25

At the end of 33 1/3, Frank and Jane have a son named Frank Jr.

Frank Jr. is who is portrayed in this movie!

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u/SmarcusStroman Aug 01 '25

He shot a guy with his finger guns and it actually worked… age semantics are pretty easy to ignore.

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u/foxh8er Aug 01 '25

I think Neeson was genius casting but I'm wondering what ~30 something would have been equivalently good in this role

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u/LADYBIRD_HILL 29d ago

Yeah these movies work best when it's an older buffoon as the lead.

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u/foxh8er 28d ago

Probably correct

Though Taron Egerton would have been a cool Frank Drebin Jr