MPAA Rating: PG13
Director: David Zucker
Genres: Comedy
Rating:

We know we're in a 1988 film when we're invited to laugh at O.J. Simpson in an opening slapstick sequence. We can also pinpoint the year of production when hard-nosed cop Frank Drebin (Leslie_Nielsen), during a scuffle with the world's leading dictators, wipes the wine-colored birthmark off the head of Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. Those wacky ZAZ boys -- David_Zucker, Jim_Abrahams, and Jerry_Zucker -- serve up a feature-length spin-off of their cult favorite TV show Police_Squad!. Seeking vengeance when his partner (Simpson) is shot full of holes by drug dealers, dead-pan and dead-brained Lt. Frank Drebin searches for the Mister Big behind it all. Drebin suspects above-reproach shipping magnate Vincent Ludwig (Ricardo_Montalban), but he can't prove a thing. Bumped from the force by the mayor (Nancy_Marchand), Drebin, with the unexpected assistance of Ludwig's ex-girlfriend (Priscilla_Presley), manages to nab the bad guy at a baseball game, where Reggie Jackson has been programmed to assassinate Queen Elizabeth. MGM mogul Irving_Thalberg once reportedly told the Marx_Brothers, "You can't build jokes on top of jokes." The producers of Naked Gun prove otherwise; indeed, one could develop writer's cramp just listing the gags in the film's first 20 minutes. Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad was followed by two lesser but still hilarious sequels, Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991) and Naked_Gun_33_1/3:_The_Final_Insult (1994). Hal Erickson, Rovi

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