The Naked Gun: From The Files Of Police Squad
85 minutes,
USA (1988), PG
Average user rating 
(4.9 / 56 votes)
(4.9 / 56 votes)
Leslie Nielsen stars as incompetent cop Lt Frank Drebbin in this brilliantly funny, unremittingly dumb police comedy from the makers of Airplane!
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The Naked Gun: From The Files Of Police Squad Review
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Leslie Nielsen stars as incompetent cop Lt Frank Drebbin in this brilliantly funny, unremittingly dumb police comedy from the makers of Airplane!
There's not an ounce of good taste, subtlety or sly wit here - but that's what you'd expect and even hope for from a Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker creation. Every second of screen time is filled with slapstick, visual puns, one-liners, prat-falls and gob-smackingly dumb jokes.
What plot there is has earnest and lascivious police lieutenant Frank Drebin attempting to foil an assassination attempt on Queen Elizabeth when she attends a baseball game in Los Angeles.
But you're not watching this for a plot, the jokes are the thing here - the trick is to keep watching the background where some of the best funnies take place.
Nielsen's bumbling cop is perfectly complemented by Priscilla Presley's innocent sex interest and Ricardo Montalban's strongly girdled arch-villain.
What plot there is has earnest and lascivious police lieutenant Frank Drebin attempting to foil an assassination attempt on Queen Elizabeth when she attends a baseball game in Los Angeles.
But you're not watching this for a plot, the jokes are the thing here - the trick is to keep watching the background where some of the best funnies take place.
Nielsen's bumbling cop is perfectly complemented by Priscilla Presley's innocent sex interest and Ricardo Montalban's strongly girdled arch-villain.
Verdict
Surely one of the greatest modern slapstick comedies. And, yes, we did just call you Shirley.
Surely one of the greatest modern slapstick comedies. And, yes, we did just call you Shirley.
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