The Naked Gun Reviews
[A] share of good silly gags performed with B-movie solemnity...
| Nov 22, 2022
The film stumbles like a chicken with its head cut off. [Full review in Spanish]
| Jun 16, 2022
The dialogue is practically perfect in its silliness, made more impressive considering the rapid-fire and convoluted abundance of one-liners and facetious remarks.
| Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 6, 2020
As scripted by the writing team that gave the world Flying High and Top Secret, the deliciously dumb jokes just don't let up...
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 21, 2020
A strong candidate for the funniest movie ever made...
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 15, 2019
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! a gift from the crew that gave us the original Airplane! is a charmingly unstable comedy whose "everything-but-the-kitchen-sink" approach to shtick is downright surreal.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 22, 2019
Run, don't walk, to The Naked Gun. Even if you have to elbow your sweet old mother-in-law or moony grandson out of the way to get to it, by all means do. You won't be sorry. It's that funny.
| Apr 30, 2018
Hilarious irreverent slapstick comedy satire.
| Original Score: B | Oct 3, 2016
It gave me about 10 big laughs and 20 small laughs and as many smiles. That`s value for time and money spent.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 6, 2014
In the years since he first played Drebin, Nielsen has deepened the role, made it more subtle, more universal, more paramount.
| May 6, 2014
The two Zuckers and Abrahams have, surprisingly, forgotten a principle of parody that they taught everyone else. Namely, that the jokes have to fit, and that they have to refer to the target -- in this instance police movies.
| Original Score: 2/4 | May 6, 2014
The proud regard in which this farce holds bad taste makes it endearing.
Full Review | May 6, 2014
The Naked Gun is hugely funny, but it`s also liberating-precisely because it centers its aim on that cold, closed system and blows it apart. The straight lines are shattered; the empty spaces in the images are packed full until they burst.
| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 6, 2014
Like the ZAZ lads' other films, this is a movie made for a VCR Saturday night. They supply the jokes; you bring the microwave popcorn and modest expectations.
| May 6, 2014
For those who savor silliness, The Naked Gun is humor heaven.
| May 6, 2014
The Naked Gun is destined to become a cult comedy classic. If the holiday run doesn`t make a bundle, the returns on the video cassette will.
| May 6, 2014
The determinedly juvenile gags never stop flowing.
| Original Score: 5/5 | May 6, 2014
The action isn't as consistently funny or surprising this time, but there's a lot of laughter to be found between the merely crude moments.
| May 6, 2014
Who needs decency and good taste when you've got gags this funny? A classic of its type.
| May 6, 2014
All in all, a balloon-sized hoot.
| Original Score: 4/5 | May 6, 2014