Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)

An LA detective is murdered because she has microfilm with the recipe to make cocaine cookies. A "Lethal Weapon" style cop team tries to find and stop the fiends before they can dope the ... See full summary »

Director:

Gene Quintano

Writers:

Don Holley (story), Tori Tellem (story)

Stars:

Emilio Estevez, Samuel L. Jackson, Jon Lovitz

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Emilio Estevez	...	Jack Colt
Samuel L. Jackson	...	Wes Luger
Jon Lovitz	...	Tim Becker
Tim Curry	...	Mr. Jigsaw
Kathy Ireland	...	Destiny Demeanor
Frank McRae	...	Captain Doyle
William Shatner	...	General Mortars
Dhiru Shah	...	Translator
Gokul	...	Hindu
Tom Bergman	...	Mini-Mart Punk (as Tom Bruggeman)
Danny Castle	...	Mini-Mart Punk
Lance Kinsey	...	Irv
Bill Nunn	...	Police Photographer
Joyce Brothers	...	Coroner (as Dr. Joyce Brothers)
Lin Shaye	...	Witness

Storyline

An LA detective is murdered because she has microfilm with the recipe to make cocaine cookies. A "Lethal Weapon" style cop team tries to find and stop the fiends before they can dope the nation by distributing their wares via the "Wilderness Girls" cookie drive.

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Plot Keywords:

parody | detective | cookie | sergeant | microfilm | 

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Taglines:

Oh my god! They have guns!

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Genres:

Action | Comedy | Crime

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for ribald humor and drug references

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

5 February 1993 (USA)

Also Known As:

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$8,200,000 (estimated)

Gross:

$27,979,400 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

New Line Cinema, 3 Arts Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

84 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Joyce Brothers: The real life American media psychologist as a coroner.

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Goofs

At the end of the film, Luger and Colt get into a car that has a magnetic police light on the right rear of the roof. As Colt opens his door, it catches the wire from the magnetic light and you can see it turn sideways and begin to slide across the car's roof.

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Quotes

Captain Doyle: Cappuccino? Espresso?
[tries to dispense some, but the coffee machine flies sparks]
Captain Doyle: Hey Scotty, can you get this machine to work?
Scotty: I'm givin' it all she's got, Captain! If I push it any farther, the whole thing'll blow!

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Crazy Credits

Closing dedication: This Film is Dedicated to the Memory of John S. Owens

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Connections

Spoofs Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)

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Soundtracks

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY
Performed by Queen
Written by Freddie Mercury
Published by B. Feldman & Co., Ltd. trading as Trident Music
All rights controlled and administrated by Glenwood Music Corporation
Courtesy of Hollywood Records / EMI Records

User Reviews

Your pants will be dancing with figs!!!

Released in the same season as Last Action Hero (another under-rated spoof of dumb action movies) and sharing a few cast members with it too, Loaded Weapon is more light-hearted stab at those horrible 'buddy-buddy'/'loose cannon partnered with old guy days from retirement' movies that were in unholy abundance around the late 80s and early 90s. Lethal Weapon (a film that has really not dated well at all) is to blame for the sudden popularity of this sub-genre and it's at this particular series that Loaded Weapon takes most of it's well deserved stabs.

Emilio Estevez is Jack Colt, a gun-happy cop on the edge who has been walking a thin line between sanity and alcohol-fuelled psycho since his dog ran away. Samuel L. Jackson is Wes Luger, a Detective with only a few days before he retires. His former partner Billy York (Whoopie Goldberg) is killed and he demands to take the case even though his superiors think it was suicide.

And so Colt and Luger get involved in a remarkably silly plot with cocaine disguised girl scout cookies. The evil General Murturs (William Shatner thoroughly enjoying himself) and his henchman Mr. Jigsaw (Tim Curry) plan to lure Colt and Luger into a trap before they foil his next major drug deal.

There are loads of cameos and even more in-jokes than you can shake a stick at. What makes Loaded Weapon better than most other heartless spoofs is that every line of dialogue is delivered perfectly and every scene has it's own special moment (if not more than one). From the hilarious opening in the mini-mart to pretty much any scene with Jon Lovitz (spoofing that horrible Joe Pesci character) there is loads to enjoy. Every aspect and cliché of this unfortunate sub-genre is exploited and made fun of, even the musical score plays a vital part in the humor of some scenes.

Some of the most quotable lines of dialogue include:

'Half today. Half tomorrow. Half on delivery.'

'I'm Detective Luger, this is Detective Colt. These are our wallets.'

'You came!'-'That's personal!'

'Ooware eez tha meecro-feelm?'

'Don't thank me. I'm just a cop doing his job.'

'I'm your worst nightmare.'-'No waking up without my penis is my worst nightmare.'

And of course...

'CIGARETTE!!!'

Unfortunately a decent knowledge of the Lethal Weapon films is required to get most of the jokes in this film but it's so funny that it's worth suffering through them first. It's a shame that they never made a sequel but never say never eh?