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The Naked Gun

1988

David Zucker

Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, Ricardo Montalban ...

6.2

25,012

Comedy A slapstick spoof of police thrillers and action films by the makers of "Airplane." Lieutenant Frank Drebin, comic cop and master car-crasher, must protect Queen Elizabeth II, when world terrorists target her for assassination during her visit to the United States. Despite this high-level assignment, Frank still has time to fall in love with a younger woman along the way.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"You laugh, and then you laugh at yourself for laughing (...) 'The Naked Gun' is an utterly goofy movie and a lot of fun (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Michael Wilmington Los Angeles Times	"Some movies make you laugh. Some movies don’t. 'The Naked Gun' definitely falls in the first category.	POS
United Kingdom	William Thomas Empire	"A brilliantly irreverent comedy overflowing with quite extraordinary levels of absurdity (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"David Zucker, who directed 'The Naked Gun,' has given it a cheerful, messy style that never quite matches the ebullience of the writing. But high spirits may be all that a film like this really needs"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"It's Nielsen's show: with an unaccountable flair for the needlessly dramatic, he holds the entire shambling absurdity together by treating everything as if it were a matter of life or death"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"Not quite up to Airplane! or Top Secret!, but there are still laughs aplenty."	POS
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"The Naked Gun is crass, broad, irreverent, wacky fun -- and absolutely hilarious from beginning to end."	POS

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