The Naked Gun series.

[agent817]

So lately I have sort of marathoned on these films. Well, actually, yesterday I watched the first film and watched the second film today, and now I have to watch the third one soon. I will say that I had never seen the first one all the way through until last night, and I don't believe I had ever seen any scenes of the second film until today. I do remember having watched the third film on USA way back when, and then watched it again on HBO sometime later. So I have mainly seen the third film. Anyway, I found these movies to be hilarious, if you're into slapstick humor and sight gags. Plus, Leslie Nielsen had that whole aura about him in his role in that he was funny while playing it straight. He was delivering his lines like it was serious but it was still rather humorous.

Which one out of these three was your favorite? What did you think of these films? I feel like watching the Police Squad series now, as I heard that it actually was funny but got canned back in the day because the formula didn't work then as you had to really watch to get the humor.

[BorneAgain]

All three are enjoyable though I think the first has the best gag to minute ratio and has one my favorite cameos ever:

[saneiac]

The first is one of my all time favorite comedies. The second is enjoyable. The third is pretty bad, although it has some good moments ("I wonder what the bloody hell he wanted!").

The movies took most of the best bits from the TV series, so if you watch it, expect to see a lot of familiar jokes.

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Dec 3, 2017 23:23:59 GMT -5 saneiac said:

The first is one of my all time favorite comedies. The second is enjoyable. The third is pretty bad, although it has some good moments ("I wonder what the bloody hell he wanted!").

The movies took most of the best bits from the TV series, so if you watch it, expect to see a lot of familiar jokes.

The Naked Gun was a TV show?!

Mind blown.

[agent817]

Dec 3, 2017 23:26:05 GMT -5 @jdogindy said:

Dec 3, 2017 23:23:59 GMT -5 saneiac said:

The first is one of my all time favorite comedies. The second is enjoyable. The third is pretty bad, although it has some good moments ("I wonder what the bloody hell he wanted!").

The movies took most of the best bits from the TV series, so if you watch it, expect to see a lot of familiar jokes.

The Naked Gun was a TV show?!

Mind blown.

Look here.

[cabbageboy]

The Naked Gun was one of the funniest movies I ever saw at the theater. I laughed so hard I cried during Drebin's scene where he was mic'd in the bathroom, haha. I mean where else are you going to find an assassination attempt on the Queen of England during a random Mariners/Angels game in 1988?

The sequels are both fun as well. I might give 33 1/3 the slight edge due to enjoying Fred Ward's wacky take on that Cagney White Heat character.

[Gus Richlen Was Wrong]

The first is OK, the second is absolutely amazing, the third is one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

[Joe Neglia]

If you like the NG films, you'll likely like the original Police Squad series too. Same basic thing, just with TV show production values and the jokes aren't quite as fast-and-furious as the films.

I loved the NG trilogy, though the third one doesn't really hold up as well outside of a few bits. I do agree with the thing about Leslie playing it straight; it's what made him work so well in Airplane! as well. The more he started mugging all the time, the less funny he became. Very few of those similar spoof movies he did afterward were worth a damn (though I have a special unexplainable love for Repossessed and Scary Movie 4 for some reason).

[mizerable]

I enjoy all 3, although each is less funny than the last. Hapsburg's death in the 2nd movie was always a highlight as I always enjoy silly callbacks.

I don't get the hate for 33 1/3. It's still a better comedy than most screwball parodies. Again, not as funny as the first 2 movies, but it's not a massive departure in jokes.

[Big Poppa Pumpkin]

That bingo card gag in the first one is still my favourite cheap movie joke of all time.

[Deleted]

Liked the second one the most.

Fun fact: I watched it for the first time at 8/9 years old and during that scene between Frank and Jane, I got majorly confused "Why are they cutting to a rollercoaster, an oil drill erupting and fireworks with a basketball player doing a slam dunk superimposed over it?"

[Hit Girl]

The first two are great. The third was terrible.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Dec 3, 2017 23:32:15 GMT -5 Gus Richlen Was Wrong said:

The first is OK, the second is absolutely amazing, the third is one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

The third one felt like a parody of the first two.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

The bathroom scene at the press conference is probably the hardest I’ve ever laughed in my life. Also enjoyed the ball player getting decapitated by the Home run.

[Jiren]

The first is one of my favourite comedies of all time, 2 is very funny as well but doesn't make me laugh as much as the first and I don't mind 3

To this day this scene cracks me up

[Deleted]

I loved all 3, and I've often watched 'em all in a row so it's actually tough for me to rank them - in a way, it's just like 1 big long movie.

Dec 3, 2017 23:26:05 GMT -5 @jdogindy said:

The Naked Gun was a TV show?!

Mind blown.

You were probably one who never thought much of the "From the Files of Police Squad!" - much like me, and from the sounds of it MANY others. The show only ran 6 episodes and I think the last 2 were just burned off during a summer after it'd been cancelled after 4.

[Push R Truth]

So my 15 year old nephew was recently introduced to the Naked Gun Series after asking me what this MEME was from:




I suppose I should add: The first one was his favorite. He had to ask the fewest questions about the jokes during the first movie. Most of the humor in that one has a "timeless" quality.

[cabbageboy]

ZAZ were so awesome. In fact we probably need another poll on which of their movies is the best. Personally I'd nominate Top Secret. Just the funniest movie ever made, though it's probably a bit too Inside Baseball for some people since you really need to be a film buff to get it. It's one thing to spoof Casablanca, but that film has an extended spoof of The Conspirators for crying out loud (a Casablanca knock off also starring Paul Henreid in a similar resistance fighter role). The wildly inventive gags (Swedish bookstore in reverse, the climatic underwater saloon brawl) and the hysterical Elvis Meets the Beach Boys soundtrack, it's just the best.

I'd probably put Airplane #3 on the list after Top Secret and Naked Gun 1. For its reputation there's a lot of jokes that really don't work in that film, and any scene with that Stephen Stucker guy is terrible. I think it's because he is actively trying to be comedy relief in an absurd comedy, while everyone else is hysterically deadpan. That and the film is basically a remake of Zero Hour, with much of the same dialogue.

[Push R Truth]

Chocolate Mousse is my favorite


Top Secret rules

[Shy Guy]

I love all of them, but I lean towards the third for sentimental reasons