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10/04/03
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
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Reviews Counted:35
Fresh:31
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7.3/10
Consensus: The Naked Gun is chock full of gags that are goofy, unapologetically crass, and ultimately hilarious.
Runtime: 85 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: A slapstick spoof of police thrillers and action films by the makers of AIRPLANE, THE NAKED GUN stars Leslie Nielsen as Lt. Frank Drebin. This comic cop and master car-crasher must protect Queen... [More]
Starring: Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, Ricardo Montalban, O.J. Simpson
Director: David Zucker, Robert K. Weiss
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Reviews for The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
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.
05/09/04
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08/08/02
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11/14/02
Not quite up to Airplane! or Top Secret!, but there are still laughs aplenty.
01/11/08
Top CriticThe 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.
01/01/00
Top CriticIt's excruciatingly rotten in every sense: not funny, not comical, not entertaining, not even fun to look at.
01/01/00
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10/07/02
Nielsen in particular is superb, cracking his façade for only the biggest of jokes.
01/29/09
...often laugh-out-loud funny, tears-to-the-eyes comical, sometimes fall-down-on-the-floor hysterical.
02/03/09
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11/08/05
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07/05/03
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08/26/04
The jokes fly fast and furious, mostly holding up decades later.
08/28/03
A comedy classic.
09/24/05
Absolutely hysterical!
02/09/03
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03/01/08
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02/13/04
A film like this is all about the comedy. The story is just an excuse to try and make you laugh the loudest they can. And it works!
09/10/02
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