US EditionThe Naked Gun Isn't High Art - but We Loved It for One Specific Reason
SINGAPORE, AUG 6 – Liam Neeson stars as Frank Drebin Jr. in the fourth Naked Gun film, blending slapstick and parody to revive the franchise for longtime fans and new audiences.
- Cinema audiences are now seeing The Naked Gun in Singapore, with Liam Neeson leading an ensemble cast in his first comedic role alongside Pamela Anderson.
- Long ago, Frank Drebin debuted in 1988, and Dan Gregor and Doug Mand crafted the fourth instalment following the original and two sequels.
- Featuring a running gag, Frank Drebin Jr. is continually handed coffee cups by underlings, and preposterous scenes include a schoolgirl disguise and a toy claw machine cleanup.
- Fans and newcomers alike are lauding its success; over 200 attendees praised it as a homecoming and fun experience.
- With audiences craving laughter, talk has already turned to a sequel as The Naked Gun film performs well at the box office.
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The Naked Gun isn't high art - but we loved it for one specific reason
Into a world desperate for innocent diversion and cheap laughs comes The Naked Gun, the revival of a film franchise of which we thought we’d seen the last some 30 years ago. It is an extremely silly, highly derivative, and totally inconsequential movie, but, in a bizarre way, it may help to restore one’s faith in cinema as a meaningful and relevant art form.How could a film which relies on slapstick, schoolboy humour and pensionable jokes, and w…
The Naked Gun: 'a dumb comedy of the expert kind'
It's a brave move, to revive the "Naked Gun" movies, said Danny Leigh in the Financial Times. Released between 1988 and 1994, the crime spoofs were a showcase for the genius of the late Leslie Nielsen, whose "deadpan brilliance" as the bumbling LAPD detective Frank Drebin (a man with "a heart of gold and a brain of wood") helped turn them into classics of the genre. Yet against all expectations, this belated sequel is a worthy successor – "a dum…
The Naked Gun Hits the Target
While it lacks the manic energy of the original, The Naked Gun reboot delivers laughs thanks to the ingenious casting of Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson. Liam Neeson stars as Lt. Frank Drebin Jr. in The Naked Gun, 2025. (Paramount Pictures) Recent events have made me, like many Americans in 2025, really desperate for a laugh. Naturally, I regarded the new Naked Gun as a potential laugh-bonanza and went to see it immediately. And I laughed quite…
The Naked Gun - Biweekly Newspaper for the Diocese of Richmond %
NEW YORK (OSV News) — For most of its running time, the intermittently amusing comedy “The Naked Gun” (Paramount), a sendup of the hardboiled cop genre, qualifies as a fun spoof that’s appropriate for most grown-ups. Yet its one sequence of utterly tasteless sexual sight gags will leave discerning viewers anything but entertained. Director and co-writer (with Dan Gregor and Doug Mand) Akiva Schaffer’s addition to the eponymous franchise features…
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