...often laugh-out-loud funny, tears-to-the-eyes comical, sometimes fall-down-on-the-floor hysterical.
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02/03/09
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
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Reviews Counted:35
Fresh:31
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7.3/10
Consensus: The Naked Gun is chock full of gags that are goofy, unapologetically crass, and ultimately hilarious.
Runtime: 85 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: A slapstick spoof of police thrillers and action films by the makers of AIRPLANE, THE NAKED GUN stars Leslie Nielsen as Lt. Frank Drebin. This comic cop and master car-crasher must protect Queen... [More]
Starring: Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, Ricardo Montalban, O.J. Simpson
Director: David Zucker, Robert K. Weiss
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Reviews for The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
Nielsen in particular is superb, cracking his façade for only the biggest of jokes.
01/29/09
No review available.
03/01/08
Not quite up to Airplane! or Top Secret!, but there are still laughs aplenty.
01/11/08
Top CriticThe Naked Gun is a continuous stream of verbal and visual gags that come so fast, you don't have time to realize how bad/old/corny they are.
01/11/08
The Naked Gun is crass, broad, irreverent, wacky fun -- and absolutely hilarious from beginning to end.
01/11/08
Top CriticNo review available.
12/26/06
The endlessly tasteless juvenilia should make you ashamed of laughing yourself into a stupor.
01/26/06
No review available.
11/08/05
A comedy classic.
09/24/05
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08/26/04
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06/14/04
Nielsen perfectly embodies Drebin with the kind of deadpan seriousness that’s essential to making well-written one-liners and situations seem ten times as funny.
05/09/04
One of the greatest comedies ever made. The laughs don't stop.
04/02/04
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02/13/04
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02/08/04
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01/08/04
The jokes fly fast and furious, mostly holding up decades later.
08/28/03
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