"Hilarity Marred by Two Extreme Scenes"
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THE NAKED GUN has a few slow bits, but the comedy comes fast and furious. The humor relies on absurd situations and behavior played straight by the actors. For example, someone keeps handing Frank cups of coffee. In one scene, a disembodied hand gives him a cup through an open car window while Frank’s driving. The new NAKED GUN has several explicit visual jokes in one scene, light foul language, comical violence, and an occult ritual making a snowman come alive. However, the movie has a strong moral premise where justice prevails. Also, the comic hero talks his girlfriend out of revenge.
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THE NAKED GUN, a legacy sequel to the 1988 comedy movie starring Leslie Nielsen, stars Liam Neeson as the son of Detective Frank Drebin, who runs up against an evil billionaire who wants to turn humanity into a bunch of raving, murderous animals so he and his billionaire friends can rule the world that’s left. THE NAKED GUN certainly has some slow parts, but the comedy comes fast and furious, and the movie’s premise shows justice ultimately overcoming chaotic greed, though the movie is marred by several explicit visual jokes in one scene, some light foul language, and a scene where the comic hero and his girlfriend perform an occult ritual to make the snowman they built come alive.
The movie opens with a bank robbery. As the police surround the bank, they’re upset when a little girl comes skipping down the street and enters the bank. Insite, the bank robbers stop their mayhem, and one asks the little girl, “What do you want, little one?” Suddenly, the little girl transforms into Liam Neeson as Det. Frank Drebin, Jr., who proceeds to pummel the bank robbers into submission.
What Frank Junior doesn’t realize is that one of the robbers, a tall bond-haired thug, has pried open a safe deposit box in the vault and withdrawn a video tape size box labeled Primordial Law of Toughness (P.L.O.T.) Device. In the alley behind the bank, the man hands the device to a gray haired man in a fancy car.
Back at Police Squad headquarters, Frank’s boss, Chief Davis, doesn’t like how he handled the bank robbery. The criminals are always suing the police department for Frank’s gung ho tactics. When she threatens to suspend Frank for playing fast and loose with the rules, he can’t believe what he’s hearing. “Who’s going to arrest me? Other cops?” Everybody nods, yeah that’s right.
The next morning, Frank and his partner, Ed, handle the case of a man who drove his car off a cliff. Frank thinks it’s a case of suicide. However, the victim’s beautiful dead sister believes her brother was murdered.
The murderer appears to be an arrogant billionaire trying to get his hands on the brother’s high-tech weapon. He wants to use the weapon to turn all of humanity into raving animals so he and his billionaire friends can rule the world that’s left. Before Frank can stop this dastardly plan, he naively walks into the billionaire’s trap and is framed for a reporter’s murder.
The comedy starts fast and furious in THE NAKED GUN. The movie springs from the minds of the guys behind Disney’s animated live action hybrid comedy CHIP ‘N DALE: RESCUE RANGERS, Akiva Schaffer, Dan Gregor and Doug Mand. Instead of producing a rehash of the original NAKED GUN movies of the 1980s and 90s, which spoof detective television programs of the 1960s and 70s, the trio creates a spoof of 1980s and 1990s cop movies like the LETHAL WEAPON, BEVERLY HILLS COP and BAD BOYS franchises. Like the previous NAKED GUN comedies, however, the new one relies on absurd situations and silly behavior played straight by the actors. For example, someone is always handing Frank Junior Starbucks-style cups of coffee, including a disembodied hand that hands Frank a cup through the car window while Frank’s driving. “Thanks,” Frank says with a straight face.
The new NAKED GUN has a strong but mixed pagan worldview. For examples, it has some explicit visual jokes in one scene, an implied bedroom scene and some light foul language. Also, there’s a comical scene where the comic hero and his girlfriend perform an occult ritual to make a snowman they built come alive. The snowman gets jealous and tries to kill them until the girlfriend, played by Pamela Anderson of BAYWATCH, chops off its head. However, the movie has a strong moral premise where justice overcomes the villain’s chaotic greed. Also, at one point, the comic hero talks his girlfriend out of killing the man who murdered her brother. Revenge never works out, he says, even if you feel awesome afterwards.
THE NAKED GUN has lots of strong and light comic violence. However, it’s the explicit visual jokes and the occult scene that most merit an excessive and unacceptable rating from MOVIEGUIDE®.
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