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The Naked Gun - From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)

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Average Rating: 7.2/10
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The Naked Gun is chock full of gags that are goofy, unapologetically crass, and ultimately hilarious.

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Seeking vengeance when his partner (Simpson) is shot full of holes by drug dealers, Lt. Frank Drebin searches for the Mister Big behind it all. Drebin suspects above-reproach shipping magnate Vincent Ludwig, but he can't prove a thing. Bumped from the force by the mayor, Drebin, with the unexpected assistance of Ludwig's ex-girlfriend, manages to nab the bad guy at a baseball game, where Reggie Jackson has been programmed to assassinate Queen Elizabeth.

PG-13, 1 hr. 25 min.

Comedy

Directed By: David Zucker

Written By: Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams

In Theaters: Dec 2, 1988 Wide

On DVD: Aug 15, 2000

Paramount Pictures

The Naked Gun - From the Files of Police Squad! Trailer & Photos

Cast

Leslie Nielsen
Lt. Frank Drebin
George Kennedy
Capt. Ed Hocken
Priscilla Presley
Jane Spencer
Ricardo Montalban
Vincent Ludwig
O.J. Simpson
Nordberg
Nancy Marchand
Mayor
Melvin Allen
Baseball Announcer
Susan Beaubian
Mrs. Nordberg
Raye Birk
Pahpshmir
Susan Breslau
"Hey look out!"
Joyce Brothers
Baseball Announcer
Jeannette Charles
Elizabeth II
Dick Enberg
Baseball Announcer
Chuck Fick
Angels Catcher
Charles Gherardi
Khomeini
Curt Gowdy
Baseball Announcer
Joe Grifasi
Foreman
Mark Holton
"It's Enrico Pallazzo!"
Prince Hughes
Idi Amin
Reggie Jackson
Angel Right Fielder
Ronald G. Joseph
Thug #27
David Katz
Arafat
Christopher Keene
"Please disperse. Pleas...
Leslie Maier
'Weird Leslie'
Tim McCarver
Baseball Announcer
Ken Minyard
Ken &
Edwina Moore
"Mr. Pallazzo our head ...
Dennis Packer
Baseball P.A. Announcer
Jim Palmer
Baseball Announcer
Hank Robinson
First Base Umpire
Tiny Ron
Al
Brinke Stevens
Girl in showers (uncred...
Lawrence Tierney
Angel Manager
Dick Vitale
Baseball Announcer
Nicholas Worth
Thug #1
Jeff Wright
"Mr. Pallazzo? Would yo...
Weird Al Yankovic
'Weird Al'
Burton Zucker
Photographer
Charlotte Zucker
Dominique
John Houseman
Driving Instructor
Ed Williams
Ted Olsen
Tom Dugan
Drug Dealer #2
Fredric Arnold
"Hey! What's the meanin...
Brett Bartlett
Seattle Centerfielder
Winifred Freedman
Stephie
Doris Hess
Nurse #2
Jim Smith
"Sorry fellas"
Don Woodard
"There he is!"
Rick Seaman
'Ya dumb broad!'
Sydney Urshan
Baseball Fan with O.J.
Robert Arthur
Bob

Critic Reviews for The Naked Gun - From the Files of Police Squad!

All Critics (38) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (37) | Rotten (4) | DVD (18)

Not quite up to Airplane! or Top Secret!, but there are still laughs aplenty.

January 11, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

The Naked Gun is crass, broad, irreverent, wacky fun -- and absolutely hilarious from beginning to end.

January 11, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety

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Variety Staff

Variety

Top Critic

High spirits may be all that a film like this really needs.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times

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Janet Maslin

New York Times

Top Critic

The film is as transparent as a third-grader with a water gun, and yet I would rather review a new film by Ingmar Bergman, for there, at least, would be themes to discuss and visual strategies to analyze.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Top Critic

The Naked Gun is still very funny more than 20 years later. Leslie Nielsen is awesome, and the gags are more hit than miss.

January 29, 2012 Full Review Source: IGN DVD

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R. L. Shaffer

IGN DVD

It would have been nothing without Leslie Nielsen, but this was one of the funniest slapstick comedies of the 1980s.

August 15, 2011 Full Review Source: Oscar Guy

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Wesley Lovell

Oscar Guy

Bawdy, dumb-humor classic spoofs '80s cop dramas.

December 18, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Heather Boerner

Common Sense Media

...sometimes mildly amusing, often laugh-out-loud funny, tears-to-the-eyes comical, fall-down-on-the-floor hysterical. (Blu-ray edition)

February 3, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

...still a hilarious movie, and anyone with a funny bone in his body will probably find it amusing.

February 3, 2009 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

Nielsen in particular is superb, cracking his fa�ade for only the biggest of jokes.

January 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

The Naked Gun is a continuous stream of verbal and visual gags that come so fast, you don't have time to realize how bad/old/corny they are.

January 11, 2008 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide

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TV Guide's Movie Guide

The endlessly tasteless juvenilia should make you ashamed of laughing yourself into a stupor.

January 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out

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Geoff Andrew

Time Out

A comedy classic.

September 24, 2005 Comment (1)

Bill Clark

FromTheBalcony Source: FromTheBalcony

Nielsen perfectly embodies Drebin with the kind of deadpan seriousness that's essential to making well-written one-liners and situations seem ten times as funny.

May 9, 2004 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide

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Erik Childress

Apollo Guide

One of the greatest comedies ever made. The laughs don't stop.

April 2, 2004 Comment

Willie Waffle

WaffleMovies.com

Hi-larious. Shame about the sequels.

March 26, 2004 Comment

Luke Y. Thompson

New Times

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Audience Reviews for The Naked Gun - From the Files of Police Squad!

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The Naked Gun is the daddy of parody movies. Along with Leslie's previous film "Airplane!". Its usually the amount of slapstick that breaks comedy films. This film however is the rare film that is made by it.

September 20, 2011

Michael Miller

Super Reviewer

While the Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker team had already showed what their humor is capable of in "Airplane!" and "Top Secret" they finally got the recognition they deserved with this mother of all cop comedies. Of course Leslie Nielsen turned out to be the perfect leading man with his stoic impressions even in the midst of

June 14, 2006

Jens S.

Super Reviewer

The Naked Gun - From the Files of Police Squad! Quotes

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1. Jane Spencer: Could I interest you in a nightcap, Lieutenant?
2. Lt. Frank Drebin: No thank you, I don't wear them.
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