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The Age of Commercialism

Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

A Masterpiece!

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

The Naked Gun is a great series of slapstick comedy that will make you yearn for simpler times. Leslie Nielson at the end of his career started doing slapstick humor after the tremendous success of Airplane. Naked Gun started as a television show- Police Squad which ran for 6 episodes. The visual and verbal gags are downright hilarious and clever and just looking at Neilson one can start burst laughing. The supporting cast is really good from (ahem) OJ Simpson to Priscilla Presley and all have been etched in our collective memories. If you want a good laugh you cannot go wrong with Naked Gun.

a blast throughout, though the movie makers made similar movies before and after the naked gun movies with the same type of jokes, and the leading actor seemed to get quite the identical roles in comedy flicks afterwards, it never worked out as well as this naked gun movie franchise, one hilarious silly bit after another, and i guess that kind of comedy won't age, only the playing field scene seemed a bit dragged out, the sequels are just as fun if not funnier really.

A perfect example of humor taken to the utmost extent, Leslie Nielsen does what no other actor could have with a role whose only job is, quite literally, to make Priscilla Presley, and OJ Simpson, The Naked Gun is a comedy success that will continue to keep audiences rolling for years. As Lt. Frank Drebin, Nielson falls into the case of a lifetime when his friend Nordberg (OJ Simpson), is severely injured in a police raid gone bad and information surfaces that there may be an assassination attempt against the visiting queen of England. From that point on, this movie contains classic elements of perseverance, adventure, and true love, but uses them all to produce a satire on police life and life in general. There will be many who don't particularly for this movies brand of humor, but The Naked Gun isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

Relatively young viewers won't be in on the opening scene gag when a host of terrorist world leaders get spoofed - Idi Amin, Yasser Arafat, Muammar Khaddafi, Mikhail Gorbachev and Ayatollah Khameini. There's even a Vladimir Putin look alike who turns out to be a guy named Pahpshmir later on in the story; that was kind of prescient as Putin himself didn't come on the world scene until around 1999/2000. So was that a lucky prophetic guess or what? I just have to shake my head.I like these kinds of films where the sight and sound gags come a mile a minute, they have a way of keeping the viewer on his toes. It's all nonsense of course, like the sign in a warehouse stating 'Attention - All employees must wash hands before using restroom'. You really have to seek that one out, aware that the film makers didn't always draw direct attention to them but did some of their work with a subtlety to be admired.And then there are the gags that come at you like a hammer blow, like Lieutenant Drebin's (Leslie Neilsen) ill fated attempt to infiltrate Vincent Ludwig's (Ricardo Montalban) office, filled with fine art and exotic collections. Then at one point out of nowhere, we get treated to Herman Hermit's hit 'Somethin' Tells Me I'm Into Somethin' Good'. The kicker of course when it comes to hindsight, is the appearance of O.J. Simpson. You would think that with this exposure to police detective tactics, he might have put them to good use one day in seeking out the real killer.