
Lieutenant Frank Drebbin returns to save the day once again. This time he's out to foil the "big boys" in the energy business. A top scientist (Dr. Mainheimer) is about to publish his report on energy supply for the future. Things don't look good for the traditional suppliers; oil, coal, and nuclear. To save their industries, the suppliers kidnap Mainheimer and replace him with a decoy with a more favorable report. Jane, the doctor's secretary, is Drebin's old flame. Their pa... (Full plot summary below)
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Lieutenant Frank Drebbin returns to save the day once again. This time he's out to foil the "big boys" in the energy business. A top scientist (Dr. Mainheimer) is about to publish his report on energy supply for the future. Things don't look good for the traditional suppliers; oil, coal, and nuclear. To save their industries, the suppliers kidnap Mainheimer and replace him with a decoy with a more favorable report. Jane, the doctor's secretary, is Drebin's old flame. Their passionate love affair is thus rekindled.
Leave your thoughts about The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear.
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe plot exists to be disregarded, the characters are deliberately constructed of cardboard, the sight gags are idiotic, and the dialogue is dumb. Really dumb. So dumb you laugh twice, once because of how stupid it is, and the second time because you fell for it. |
| VarietyVariety StaffEven if the laugh machine isn't operating at top efficiency, it still cranks out a few choice bits of irreverent lunacy. |
| Creative LoafingMatt BrunsonIt may not deliver as many sustained laughs as its predecessor, but the hit-to-miss ratio of its comic content is still high. |
| Chicago TribuneGene SiskelZucker, who collaborated with his brother Jerry and Jim Abrahams on such comedies as "Airplane!" and "Ruthless People," is working solo here. And aside from a flat patch midway through, he delivers as faithfully as Domino's pizza. In the limbo of comedy, few can go lower than Zucker without visibly straining. And the movie has a message: "Love is like the ozone layer; you never miss it until it's gone." |
| The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe enthusiastic Zucker, Zucker & Abrahams style of movie parody is too rarely seen to prompt much head-shaking about gags that don't work. The entire film is justified by those gags that do succeed, beginning with a pre-credit sequence that is possibly one of the most blithely hilarious six or seven minutes of film stock ever exposed to light. |
| Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)Bob BloomAn even sequel that misses the freshness of the original or the TV series. |
| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfA nifty, crisp package, but not quite up to the standards of the original picture. A dildo drill can't solve every problem. |
| Washington PostJohn F. KellyA bit of advice: Get to "The Naked Gun 2½" on time and plan to stay till they turn the lights back on. The opening and closing credits alone are almost worth the price of admission. |
| Miami HeraldChristine DolenThe Naked Gun 2 1/2 is at least two-and-a-half times less funny than its hilarious 1988 progenitor. But even if the laugh machine isn't operating at top efficiency, it still cranks out a few choice bits of irreverent lunacy. |
| Fantastica DailyChuck O'LearyProvides sporadic laughs, but not as consistently funny as the first one. |