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The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear

The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear

1991

David Zucker

Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, O.J. Simpson ...

5.7

16,073

Comedy The ineffable and clumsy police lieutenant Frank Drebbin is back to save the city. But this time he has to face the villains of the energy industry. A leading scientist, Dr. Mainheimer, is about to publish a report on the energy reserves that will remain in the future. His pessimistic forecasts are detrimental to the owners of the oil, coal and nuclear power plant industries. So the affected businessmen kidnap Mainheimer and replace him ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"What can usefully be said about this movie, other than the essential information that I laughed? (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Janet Maslin The New York Times	"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."
		Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"For the most part, it lacks the manic highs of the earlier film, and of Airplane!, too. Yet it’s consistently funny and inventive."
		Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"'Naked Gun 2 ½' ultimately tries much too hard for far too few laughs"
		John F. Kelly The Washington Post	"The laughs are perfectly timed and perfectly executed, making for a perfect 90 minutes of goofball fun."
		Alan Jones Radio Times	"It's not quite up to the standard set by the now classic first film, but Nielsen's inspired playing still makes this an unmissable treat."

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