The Naked Gun Review: a Film Firing Laughs on All Cylinders

The Naked Gun review: a film firing laughs on all cylinders

The Naked Gun is like a machine gun unloading barrels of laughs every second thanks to impeccable writing and comedic performances.

Movie Review: 'The Naked Gun'

The classic franchise returns with new fingers on its trigger

'The Naked Gun' Review: The funniest 85 minutes of 2025

Since there are few things worse than reading a film critic describe jokes from a hilarious movie in ways that strip them of their entertainment value, I’ll keep this review nice, brief, and summary-free: Akiva Schaffer’s The Naked Gun is one of the best revivals of a comedy franchise in recent memory. It’s a tribute to the sturdiness of the Zucker-Abrams-Zucker joke-a-second model and the enduring appeal of the ludicrous deadpan delivered by fo…

The Naked Gun reboot lands surprising Rotten Tomatoes rating

"Fall-out-of-your-seat-and-roll-on-the-floor hilarious."

‘The Naked Gun’ review: Like father, like son

Luke Brewer (File) Thirty-one years after Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) last graced the silver screen in “The Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult” (1994), it’s time for a comedic legend to return.  The reboot of the franchise reusing the 1988 original’s name follows Frank Drebin Jr. (Liam Neeson) working to stop the wealthy Richard Cane’s (Danny Huston) evil plot with the help of Ed Hocken Jr. (Paul Walter Hauser) and newcomer Beth Davenport (Pamela…

The Naked Gun Review: Akiva Schaffer’s Reboot Spoofs a New Era of Cinematic Crime Pulp

In its original iteration, the Zucker brothers’ Naked Gun wasn’t just carried by Leslie Nielsen’s performance––nearly every aspect of the first two David Zucker-directed films was a reflection of it. As buffoonish detective lieutenant Frank Drebin, Nielsen’s scenery-chewing baritone encapsulated the square-jawed, hypermasculine self-seriousness of a generation of patriotic popular entertainment unleashed on America during