While my sense of comedy isn’t in line with the masses, I do enjoy a wide range of jokes, pranks and scripted bits.
So, naturally, when I got a chance to see the newest The Naked Gun flick, I was all in to see how ridiculous the storyline and gags could be.
Honestly, about halfway through the film I found myself laughing more at the absurd dialogue instead of the actual scenes playing out on screen.
Plus, I think the main actors had great chemistry!
The Naked Gun is an American action comedy film directed by Akiva Schaffer and written by Schaffer, Dan Gregor and Doug Mand.
As the fourth film in
The Naked Gun franchise, it stars Liam Neeson in the main role, with Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, Kevin Durand, CCH Pounder, and Danny Huston starring in supporting roles.
The flick clocks in at 85 minutes long and is rated PG-13 for crude/sexual material, violence/bloody images and brief partial nudity.
LAPD Police Squad Lieutenant Frank Drebin Jr. (Neeson) single-handedly dispatches a gang of bank robbers while disguised as a schoolgirl.
Unbeknownst to him, this was a distraction to steal a gadget called the P.L.O.T. Device from a safe deposit box.
Police Chief Davis (Pounder) reassigns Drebin when his over-the-top law enforcement becomes a legal liability.
Meanwhile, Drebin and his partner, Ed Hocken Jr. (Hauser) pay tribute to their memorialized hero fathers.
Drebin prays to his father to send him a sign, such as an owl.
Drebin investigates software engineer Simon Davenport’s fatal car crash, deeming it suicide.
Beth Davenport (Anderson), Simon’s sister and his only relative, argues otherwise.
Drebin discourages Beth, a crime novelist, from emulating her amateur detective protagonist.
Drebin finds Richard Cane (Huston), Simon’s wealthy employer at Edentech, at the company’s tech expo later that day.
After they mutually appreciate the Black Eyed Peas, Cane donates a self-driving electric car to Police Squad - which wreaks havoc with Drebin behind the wheel - and recommends his personal nightclub.
Drebin happens to notice that Simon had a matchbook from that very club when Cane lights up a cigar with an identical matchbook.
Cane privately demonstrates to his board how he will use the stolen P.L.O.T. to revert humans to barbarians, culling the population for his fellow billionaires, safely insulated in a bunker, to rule.
Using bodycam footage to question an uncooperative robber, Drebin replays a shameful diarrhea ordeal caused by compulsively eating chili dogs.
He learns about the deposit box, which was Simon’s and has connected the two cases.
At Cane’s club, Beth distracts Cane with improvised, atrocious scat singing while Drebin fights many goons to access security footage, discovering that Simon met discreetly with a journalist.
From bed, Davis summons Drebin and suspends him for insubordination.
Beth stays with the demoralized Drebin, and he considers finally moving on from memories of his late wife.
Cane’s operative Sig Gustafson (Durand) spies on them with thermal vision, seeing their dinner preparation as acts of bestiality.
Drebin and Beth spend a romantic weekend at an alpine-esque lodge including questionable antics with a magically animated snowman that turns murderous.
The antics Drebin gets up to are borderline dumb, but just when I get annoyed with how lame the jokes are some piece of dialogue flows by that grabs my attention and makes me laugh.
Honestly, I don’t think you’re missing much with this one and can safely advise waiting for it to stream to enjoy from the comfort of your own couch.
