Brightlyme
i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.
Stephan Hammond
It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
Janae Milner
Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
Ortiz
Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
leplatypus
I saw this movie in my last year of high school and i did it because the first movie was excellent: this one is as good and like Pee-Wee, i remember to have laugh all along the screening (especially, the dogs, the skin mark,...): what is good with this franchise is that the case are more or less serious, the detectives are more or less bright: thus, all the background is believable but at the end, the scenes come up totally crazy and funny! Late Leslie was a bit like our french FUFU, sadly underrated for his talent and never recognized as a true actor while comedy needs a real discipline and self-control! His buddy and miss Presley are a good team too and if you seek for American comedies that are really funny, check this franchise without any doubts!
mark.waltz
That's what I said in 1988 when the first "Naked Gun" movie was released, an enjoyable popcorn film that had audiences laughing so hard in the movies that often the audience missed a joke or two. Watching all three movies in sequence, I can't help but notice that the first one is by far the best, that the slight plot is simply a "Hellzapoppin'" collection of gags, both visually and verbally, and some work while others land like a thud. The second one is decent, no more than good, and while many gags are hysterically funny, you just wonder how far can they take this thing before it begins to get redundant. Leslie Nielsen is back as Lt. Drebbin of "Police Squad", celebrating his 1000th killing of a drug dealer (although the last two were accidents; He ran them over with his car, but fortunately, they turned out to be drug dealers), and now he is in Washington D.C. for an energy convention where a terrorist threat has erupted and world money men are determined to get their hands on the scientist whose energy plans are solidly helpful to the environment but also have elements that could cause mass destruction as well.Nielsen is surrounded once again by beautiful Priscilla Presley whose relationship and declaration of love ended the first film but has somehow soured over the past few years in between the first two movies, as well as partners O.J. Simpson and George Kennedy, both basically getting the same kind of gags that were hysterical in the first film, but manage only moderate chuckles here. Taking over for Nancy Marchand's L.A. mayor here is stage veteran Jacqueline Brookes as Washington's D.A., equally as imperious and definitely not a Drebbin fan. Taking over for Queen Elizabeth as far as being in the wrong place at the wrong time is first lady Barbara Bush who gets knocked around by Drebbin, while Brookes' D.A. gets the pinch of her life from Nielsen's lobster. Stage veteran Richard Griffiths (best known to Harry Potter fans as his nasty uncle) plays a dual role, and gets a wheelchair ride that will delight "E.T." fans.Three villains of note here include legendary stage actor/singer Robert Goulet who takes over for Ricardo Montalban, and two veterans of "Dynasty": Lloyd Bochner and Peter Mark Richman, ironically both cast as C.C. Capwell on "Santa Barbara" (only Richman would air; Bochner had to leave the part before the first episode was filmed due to a heart attack), and Bochner gets to spoof an early T.V. appearance in one of the film's best gags. The movie opens once again with a very slap- happy final shot in its credits that might seem dated now, but back when this came out, was very timely and spoofed many times in films and on T.V. John Roarke and Margery Ross are dead-on as George and Barbara Bush, and the gags are so funny that you just know that the then first family must have been highly amused by it. 'Weird Al' Yankovic, after his cameo in the first one as himself, was back as another character, and in keeping with "tradition", would be back in the third installment as well!I wouldn't call this one a classic by any means, but during this era of movie going, movie audiences weren't craving noisy sound effects or "end of the world" spectacles that dominate the summer cinemas of today. A good box of popcorn, a large soda and a ton of laughs at a comedy like this were all that my college age crowd wanted when going to the theater, and in retrospect, this is all very nostalgic, reminding me of what was probably overdone but yet fun as "p.c. politics" began to try to control the minds of a country that has seemed to have forgotten how to laugh. I can't help but admit that for as repetitive and over-done that these spoofs were in the late 1980's/early-mid 1990's that they certainly were a lot of fun, and for that, I can't help but recommend these films simply for that.
gridoon2018
When a comedy frequently makes you laugh so much that you cry, it kind of transcends the typical critical analysis, and that's the case for me and "Naked Gun 2 & 1/2". All I can say is that this crazy, wild spoof has a higher hits-over-misses ratio than most of the other films in this genre that I've seen so far. The gags are well-thought-out - notice, for example, the one where George Bush (yes, George Bush) is talking about oil energy and budget cuts while the action we are seeing parallels his words. But besides all that, the film actually has a plot (!), and a remarkably topical and progressive political edge! They truly don't make them like this anymore. *** out of 4.
Wuchak
The three "Naked Gun" movies from 1988, 1991 and 1994 are all extremely goofy comedies starring Lesley Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy and OJ Simpson. They're consistently amusing and, pretty much, interchangeable. The first two were hugely successful at the box office; the third one didn't do bad, but nowhere near as good as the first two. Whether or not you prefer one to another depends on the story and guest stars.As far as the two sequels go, I slightly prefer part 3, but all three come in handy when you want to turn off your brain and enjoy something silly. Priscilla was one of the most beautiful women to walk the planet in her prime and looks great these films.The film runs 85 minutes and was shot in the Los Angeles area and Washington DC.GRADE: B