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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
1988
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3.9
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4.4
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 ..
Rogerebert
3.5
The deadpan humor gave this viewer many delightfully funny moments, as the gags were expertly delivered by the adept cast and many of them were outrag ..
Sover
4.4
Merely recounting the plot of any ZAZ comedy utterly fails to convey the lunacy and, believe it or not, charm of the production.
Tv Guide
4.0
It was a half hour comedy, a spoof of cop shows, totally deadpan and without a laugh track.
Combust Ible Celluloid
5.0
Review Our Score by John Ferguson The team behind Airplane! first turned their wicked talents onto the police force with the short lived cult TV serie ..
Radio Times
3.5
But filmmaker Keith Gordon is a new and original voice in American movies, with a spare and elliptical style that carries the story past its corny and ..
Cs Monitor
4.4
A lot of the beats are a bit too familiar from previous entries in the series, which isnt surprising given that this is the fifth film to play off the ..
Q Network
4.0
Your only chance to see the Queen with her legs wrapped around Leslie Nielsens back, Gorby without his birthmark and The Ayatollahs secret Mohican hai ..
Empire
3.0
Its rife with all of the above in fact, its a nonstop series of jokes that will have your inner 14 year old boy rolling on the floor laughing.
Common Sense Media
4.4
You could have the best director in the world, a great story and a wonderful cast, but if it aint funny, its pointless.
Montreal Film Journal
1.0
In the years since he first played Drebin, Nielsen has deepened the role, made it more subtle, more universal, more paramount.
La Times
4.4
Sometimes a script can take too many twists and turns, and Tequila Sunrise reaches that point.Writer Robert Towne (Chinatown) directs his own convolut ..
Articles Chicago Tribune
4.4
The speed and quantity of gags arent new any Tex Avery cartoon of the 40s could beat them.
Articles Chicago Tribune
4.4
Through a series of pratfalls, well timed comic dialogue and clever sight gags, The Naked Gun dances through the narrative to create an entertaining a ..
Cinema Sight
2.5
If your expectations are low enough, you might find a way to enjoy occasional moments in the movie.
Articles Orlando Sentinel
3.5
The Naked Gun is destined to become a cult comedy classic. If the holiday run doesnt make a bundle, the returns on the video cassette will.
Articles Sun Sentinel
5.0
The boys outdid themselves here with an incredible blizzard of gags of every kind cheap gags, stupid gags, smart gags, sight gags, verbal gags, innoce ..
Buffalo News
3.5
Its certainly not high brow entertainment, but its a blast to watch.
Blu Ray Ign
2.5
The lead characters wear deadpan expressions through their cliche roles, and the laughs derive largely from non sequiturs in their dialogue and from l ..
Jonathan Rosenbaum
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