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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

  • 1988
  • PG-13
  • 1h 25m
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
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Leslie Nielsen, George Kennedy, Ricardo Montalban, Priscilla Presley, O.J. Simpson, Jeannette Charles, Reggie Jackson, and Nancy Marchand in The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
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Incompetent police Detective Frank Drebin must foil an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.Incompetent police Detective Frank Drebin must foil an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.Incompetent police Detective Frank Drebin must foil an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.

  • Director
    • David Zucker
  • Writers
    • Jerry Zucker
    • Jim Abrahams
    • David Zucker
  • Stars
    • Leslie Nielsen
    • Priscilla Presley
    • O.J. Simpson
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.6/10
    196K
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    POPULARITY
    984
    182
    • Director
      • David Zucker
    • Writers
      • Jerry Zucker
      • Jim Abrahams
      • David Zucker
    • Stars
      • Leslie Nielsen
      • Priscilla Presley
      • O.J. Simpson
    • 283User reviews
    • 102Critic reviews
    • 76Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 2 nominations total

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    Leslie Nielsen
    Leslie Nielsen
    • Lt. Frank Drebin
    Priscilla Presley
    Priscilla Presley
    • Jane Spencer
    O.J. Simpson
    O.J. Simpson
    • Det. Nordberg
    Ricardo Montalban
    Ricardo Montalban
    • Vincent Ludwig
    George Kennedy
    George Kennedy
    • Capt. Ed Hocken
    Susan Beaubian
    Susan Beaubian
    • Mrs. Wilma Nordberg
    Nancy Marchand
    Nancy Marchand
    • Mayor Lillian Barkley
    Raye Birk
    Raye Birk
    • Pahpshmir
    Jeannette Charles
    Jeannette Charles
    • Queen Elizabeth II
    Ed Williams
    • Ted Olsen
    Tiny Ron
    • Al
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    'Weird Al' Yankovic
    • 'Weird Al'
    Leslie Maier
    • 'Weird Leslie'
    Winifred Freedman
    • Stephanie
    Joe Grifasi
    Joe Grifasi
    • Foreman
    Tony Brafa
    • Enrico Pallazzo
    Lorali Hart
    • Woman On Ledge
    Nicholas Worth
    Nicholas Worth
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    • Director
      • David Zucker
    • Writers
      • Jerry Zucker
      • Jim Abrahams
      • David Zucker
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    Reviewers say 'The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!' is a hilarious film with memorable lines and absurd situations that keep audiences entertained. Leslie Nielsen's deadpan delivery and the supporting cast's performances enhance the humor. However, some viewers find the rapid-fire jokes overwhelming, and a few gags fall flat. Despite this, the film's slapstick humor, visual gags, and iconic scenes, such as Frank Drebin's interactions with Queen Elizabeth, contribute to its enduring comedic appeal.
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    bob the moo

    Even when you're not laughing you'll still be chuckling (as long as you're in the mood)

    Fresh from tackling terrorism in Beruit, with his own unique hands on style, Lt Frank Drebin is immediately called onto the job to investigate the near fatal shooting of a fellow officer. Det Nordberg was gunned down investigating a case in the docks and Drebin's investigation begins with the company that Nordberg was undercover with – that of pillar of the community Vincent Ludwig. As Frank falls for Ludwig's PA, the beautiful Jane Spencer, he uncovers proof of a dastardly plot by Ludwig – but who will believe him?

    If there is a man, woman or child on this earth who can say, hand on heart, that they just don't find Airplane, Naked Gun, Police Squad and the like funny then I would very much like to meet the sad sack just to discover what it takes to elicit a smile from them. Needless to say, this sort of film is very much my type of thing but not to the point where I cannot spot a good one from a bad one. In fact one of the big downsides of this film is that it did create many copies that just couldn't do it as well – so we have had spoofs of all sorts of genres recently, but too many have more hits than misses.

    It is to this films credit that it has a very high hit/miss ratio and I enjoy it so much because the laughs keep coming. The material is very silly but it is the constant straight face that it delivers it with that is perfect and makes it work. Other films of the ilk have been overly silly without keeping this straight face. However, our characters here seem oblivious – apart from the odd one who gives the other a funny look etc, and this makes the goings on even funnier. The plot is silly but that doesn't matter as you will be laughing too much to really care. Having seen it so often I have stopped roaring the way I did the first time but I still chuckled all the way.

    The writing and direction is spot on – delivering sharp lines that make me laugh due to their sheer unexpectedness or the way they are so very out of place as well as sight gags that are imaginative and clever. However lets not forget a delivery by a very talented cast who make the material work. Praise goes to Nielsen in the lead; he may have worn his role thin over the years with typecasting and, shall we say 'less than perfect' material but give him the tools and he'll do you a job. He can be straight, he can dither or he can just be a clown and he does them all here – his delivery is great whether it's action or reaction shots. Likewise I felt the rest of the cast did well even if most of them are given reaction shots to Drebin. Presley is straight and funny for it while Kennedy seems to fit into the material with ease. OJ doesn't have as much chance to be funny and seems a little stiff in the scenes he is in, but he is still good – just pales a little when next to the others. I love Montalban and he uses his ooze really well in this film – and his reaction shots are very good. The support is all good but it is Nielsen doing his (now) time-honoured turn as spoof-master than steals the show.

    Overall I love this genre and consider this film (indeed the series) to be up there with Police Squad and Airplane. It is not as hilarious as Airplane but it has way more hits than misses and is relentlessly funny. As a film it isn't perfect but anyone watching this who complains about plot holes, lack of character development or lack of narrative really have missed the point.
    8SmileysWorld

    Great blend of slapstick and one-liners

    I suppose when it comes down to it,I am very easily entertained when it comes to comedy.It just doesn't take much to make me laugh.The makers of The Naked Gun did their job well.The film is so overloaded with sight gags,that if you blink,you just might miss one,or maybe even two of them.The slightest distractions will make you miss something.Some of the humor is vulgar and downright tasteless,but nonetheless funny.The final sequences involving the baseball game were the best.With the possible exception of O.J.Simpson,who was never good when he tried to act,this was a grand all around comedic effort,and comedy,as many have said,is hard to produce.I actually can recall the short lived television series that this film is based on.Only six episodes were produced,and it was a shame more were not made.I was glad to see it come roaring back on the big screen.Perhaps it belonged there all along.
    lel8one

    Great

    Really good film, I liked this one!

    I recently bought the boxed set, (all 3 films) and really enjoyed watching them again. I have to admit though, I did not quite laugh as much as I did when I first watched them.

    I remembering watching them the first time and thinking "What the hell am I watching? This is MAD! hahaha lol. All the bits like Frank hitting stuff with his car every time he parks and the bit with Nordberg at the start - classic!

    Really good light-hearted fun...

    7 out of 10
    10jaysilentbob37

    Leslie Neilsen is a comedic genius.

    This is another movie from the creators of the ever hysterical Airplane. If you've seen Airplane, than you can expect the same kind of humor from this. This is one of those movies in which you can go crazy by trying to count the gags in the first ten minutes. Airplane did disaster films, this one does police dramas.

    Frank Drebin (Leslie Neilsen) is a respected cop with gravel for a brain. He is part of a police force called Police Squad, who the security of Queen Elizabeth has just been handed to for her visit to Los Angeles. Frank bumbles through several hilarious scenarios in trying to foil an assassination attempt on her, and catch the attempted murderer of his best friend Nordberg (OJ Simpson). Meanwhile, he starts going out with the beautiful Jane Spencer (Priscilla Presley).

    This movie goes from one hilarious situation to another, from commandeering a car that's being used for a drivers test, to trying to save a valuable pen from a fish tank. Leslie Neilsen's comedic timing is brilliant. His facial expressions during the slapstick sequences are priceless, as are his dead-seriousness of delivering one liners. Some of his quotes are so hilarious, that I have trouble figuring out how he could have possibly kept a straight face during filming. This is another classic in the same style as Airplane, which means hilarity. This gets a 9/10.

    It is rated PG-13 for Crude and Sexual Humor, and for Some Language. Sex: 7/10 Violence: 4/10 Swearing: 4/10 Drugs: 5/10
    10Mister-6

    In praise of Leslie Nielsen....

    The movie itself is funny. "The Naked Gun" is without a doubt the best skewering of all cop movie cliches available in this day and age. It works on every conceivable level and a few that haven't been conceived yet.

    But what puts it over the top is Leslie Nielsen.

    It's amazing: he was great in "Airplane!", another classic from the ZAZ team (Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker), and in the lamentably short TV series "Police Squad!". But here, he spreads his wings and flies to new heights of insanity and delerium. With jaw set square and tongue firmly in cheek, Neilsen makes the role of Lt. Frank Drebin all his own and the movie-going public's collective life is all the more enriched because of it.

    He's aided and abetted by greats like Kennedy, Presley and Montalban (who knew?) and the movie even finds good moments for John Houseman and Reggie Jackson.

    As I said, the movie takes off and finds great things to do with police cars with a mind all their own and goes on from there to take on such cliches as car chases, illegal searches, the cleaning out of the desk, the trip to the police lab, shoot-outs, the lax housework of a single police detective, etc., etc., etc.....

    And what other cop movie in the history of the world has a music video in the middle, courtesy of Herman's Hermits?

    Just one.

    Ten stars and a Dugout Dog for "The Naked Gun", the film that answers once and for all - can Leslie Nielsen do comedy?

    I think you know the answer.

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    • Trivia
      After Leslie Nielsen's death in 2010, ESPN published an obituary for "Enrico Pallazzo," writing, "A true Renaissance man, Enrico Pallazzo umpired the game after performing the national anthem... Pallazzo was the first - and only - umpire to eject another umpire from a major league game. He also is believed to be the first - and only - umpire to use an upright vacuum cleaner to tidy up home plate."
    • Goofs
      In the video/theatrical release, in the final battle with Vincent Ludwig, Frank Drebin's chest protector has deflated without reason. (note: the network television broadcast adds a scene in which Ludwig shoots the chest protector, causing it to deflate.)
    • Quotes

      Frank: It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day.

      Jane: Goodyear?

      Frank: No, the worst.

    • Crazy credits
      Many of the bit players are credited next to the one line of dialogue they had in the film. For example: "It's Enrico Pallazzo!" ... Mark Holton
    • Alternate versions
      On a recent Comedy Central airing in 2006, the entire opening scene with Frank Drebin and the hostile foreign leaders was cut, instead going straight to the opening credits. This is probably due to sensitivity regarding the conflict overseas.
    • Connections
      Edited into Apaga y vámonos: Episode #1.7 (2013)
    • Soundtracks
      I Love L.A.
      (1983)

      Written and Performed by Randy Newman

      Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records Inc.

      By Arrangement with Warner Special Products

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    • Release date
      • December 2, 1988 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • ¿Y dónde está el policía?
    • Filming locations
      • Dodger Stadium - 1000 Vin Scully Avenue, Chavez Ravine, Elysian Park, Los Angeles, California, USA(Int. Baseball Scenes)
    • Production company
      • Paramount Pictures
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    • Budget
      • $12,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $78,756,177
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $9,331,746
      • Dec 4, 1988
    • Gross worldwide
      • $78,756,177
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 25 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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