Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Leslie Nielsen | ... | Frank Drebin | |
Priscilla Presley | ... | Jane Spencer | |
Ricardo Montalban | ... | Vincent Ludwig | |
George Kennedy | ... | Ed Hocken | |
O.J. Simpson | ... | Nordberg | |
Susan Beaubian | ... | Mrs. Nordberg | |
Nancy Marchand | ... | Mayor | |
Raye Birk | ... | Pahpshmir | |
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Jeannette Charles | ... | Queen Elizabeth II |
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Ed Williams | ... | Ted Olsen |
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Tiny Ron | ... | Al |
'Weird Al' Yankovic | ... | 'Weird Al' | |
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Leslie Maier | ... | 'Weird Leslie' |
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Winifred Freedman | ... | Stephie |
Joe Grifasi | ... | Foreman |
A rerun of many of the gags from the television series Police Squad! (1982). An Airplane! (1980)-type spoof, this time with the an incompetent Lieutenant Frank Drebin, who always "gets his man". Visual gags come thick and fast, and it's impossible to catch them all with one viewing. The plot: Queen Elizabeth II of England is coming to town, and Vincent Ludwig has plans to assassinate her using a brainwashed baseball player. Written by Rob Hartill
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