Naked Gun with Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson.

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I love Liam Neeson as an actor, but leave it alone Hollywood. Leslie Nielson is irreplaceable and with today's current environment, they'll make it unfunny.
 
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i think police squad is being revamped by pat proft and zucker brothers

they were not thrilled about this movie
 
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I won't lie: the OG Naked Gun movies are some of my favorite old school spoof flicks, especially the first. Absolute classic. I have no doubt this one won't measure up, but I'll watch it for the laughs and to see if they can put Humpty Dumpty (Pam A) back together again.
 
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The trailer in theatres is different than any of the ones I have seen here. It was also hilarious and sent me from highly skeptical to fully planning on seeing it.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
I won't lie: the OG Naked Gun movies are some of my favorite old school spoof flicks, especially the first. Absolute classic. I have no doubt this one won't measure up, but I'll watch it for the laughs and to see if they can put Humpty Dumpty (Pam A) back together again.
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Enrico Pallazo HAS to make an appearance. HAS too.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
I won't lie: the OG Naked Gun movies are some of my favorite old school spoof flicks, especially the first. Absolute classic. I have no doubt this one won't measure up, but I'll watch it for the laughs and to see if they can put Humpty Dumpty (Pam A) back together again.
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It's hard to remake movies like naked gun, the originals where raw and felt natural. I'm sure this movie do its best to match the original.
 
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JL24 said:
Any of you guys watched this yet?
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I saw it yesterday, and I feel mostly positive about it.

The run time is only 85 minutes, and I think if it were any longer, it would have overstayed its welcome. It is mostly a Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson movie, and both are game for all the silly sight gags (most of which work). Other actors like CCH Pounder, Paul Walter Hauser, Danny Huston, and Kevin Durand (not Durant, though he is tall) come in and out of a few scenes.

I think Liam Neeson is pretty well cast here. He doesn't remind me of Leslie Nielsen at all, but he's good at making fun of his gravely serious film career. Makes sense; Nielsen was also a serious actor before Airplane! came out. I was skeptical of the Pamela Anderson choice, but she does fine in a role that actually requires her to carry a few scenes, a bit more demanding than what Priscilla Presley had to do. I was afraid we were going to get something like Anna Nicole Smith's immediately dated stunt casting in the third Naked Gun movie, but fortunately we don't.

One of the trailers reveals an extended toilet humor joke, and while that is certainly part of the Naked Gun canon, I was dreading it in the movie. Fortunately, they keep it to a minimum. It hits just a few nostalgic notes. The Wall of Past Police Squad Cast Members happens early in the movie -- Frank Drebin Jr and Ed Hocken Jr honor their deceased fathers -- so you know that this a continuation of the Leslie Nielsen movies and not a reboot. I noticed brief appearances by two celebrities who appeared in the previous movies, and a very familiar prop appears in the nightclub scene. The theme song and the traveling siren gag are saved for the closing credits.

Parodies of other movies were always part of these films, like when Leslie Nielsen and Priscilla Presley re-enacted the pottery scene from Ghost. I guess there's a little bit of that here. CCH Pounder's boss character is just as much Judi Dench in the James Bond movies as she is Nancy Marchand in the original Naked Gun. And there's a fake-out scene whose concept is lifted almost entirely from Mission: Impossible - Fallout, though they extend it to ridiculous measures.

One criticism I would make is that Danny Huston (as the villain, which is not a spoiler) is a serious actor who plays the role fairly seriously. It might have helped if someone a bit cheesier were cast instead, like Ricardo Montalban or Robert Goulet in the first two movies, or just played the role a bit more goofy, like Fred Ward in the third movie.

 
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