
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.... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
Leave your thoughts about The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!.
| TIME MagazineRichard CorlissLike the ZAZ lads' other films, this is a movie made for a VCR Saturday night. They supply the jokes; you bring the microwave popcorn and modest expectations. |
| Apollo GuideErik ChildressNielsen 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. |
| Cinema SightWesley LovellIt would have been nothing without Leslie Nielsen, but this was one of the funniest slapstick comedies of the 1980s. |
| People MagazinePeter TraversThe proud regard in which this farce holds bad taste makes it endearing. |
| Chicago TribuneGene SiskelIt gave me about 10 big laughs and 20 small laughs and as many smiles. That`s value for time and money spent. |
| Chicago TribuneDave KehrNot quite up to "Airplane!" or "Top Secret!," but there are still laughs aplenty. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertReviewing The Naked Gun... is like reporting on a monologue by Rodney Dangerfield - you can get the words but not the music. |
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonCrass, broad, irreverent, wacky fun - and absolutely hilarious from beginning to end. |
| Zap2it.comMichael SzymanskiAlways hysterical, no matter how much you watch it! |
| VarietyVariety StaffThe Naked Gun is crass, broad, irreverent, wacky fun -- and absolutely hilarious from beginning to end. |