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The Naked Gun

Play trailer 2:24 Poster for The Naked Gun PG-13 Released Dec 2, 1988 1h 25m Comedy Play Trailer Watchlist
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Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen), a rather clueless police detective, tries to foil a plot to turn innocent people into assassins through mind control. After his partner, Norberg (O.J. Simpson), is shot, Frank sets out to find the culprit, leading him to business tycoon Vincent Ludwig (Ricardo Montalban). However, Frank has no evidence until he meets Jane Spencer (Priscilla Presley), Ludwig's assistant. She knows nothing about Ludwig's devious plans, but falls for Frank and agrees to help him.
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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! is loaded chock full of gags that are goofy, unapologetically crass, and ultimately hilarious.

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David Denby New York Magazine/Vulture Random spoofers, easily distracted, ZAZ are too devoted to silliness to mount even a sustained parody of movies. Jul 24, 2025 Full Review Nigel Andrews Financial Times The joy of The Naked Gun is its lunatic sobriety. Jul 24, 2025 Full Review Owen Gleiberman Boston Phoenix Its creators, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker, have taken their brand of hit-and-run conceptual humor to a new, refined pitch. Jul 24, 2025 Full Review Andre Dellamorte Collider Director David Zucker (directing solo for the first time) knows what he’s doing and delivers joke after joke after joke after joke. It’s an onslaught of comedy, and though some jokes are misses, the batting average is high. Jul 25, 2025 Full Review Joe Leydon Houston Post (Texas) From beginning to end, The Naked Gun is a great big goofy grin... If this movie made your sides ache any worse, the Surgeon General might have to slap a warning label on it. Rated: 3/4 Jul 25, 2025 Full Review Dan DiNicola The Daily Gazette (Schenectady, NY) From the opening prologue, "The Naked Gun" is a steady riot of chuckles, guffaws and old-fashioned belly-laughs. Jul 25, 2025 Full Review Read all reviews

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Ava S The Naked Gun remains a classic for its sheer, dumb fun, with Lt. Frank Drebin's heroic buffoonery guaranteeing enjoyment for audiences of any background. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 07/20/25 Full Review Kyle C If you’ve seen Airplane!, you know what to expect: more of the same, mostly in a good way. Some gags land perfectly, others are just dumb, but Leslie Nielsen is consistently hilarious no matter what he’s doing. It drags a bit—even at under 90 minutes—but if you're into ‘80s sketch-style comedy, The Naked Gun is well worth your time. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 07/19/25 Full Review Melvin D. A truly classic movie. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/19/25 Full Review Alejandro E From the increasingly distant 80's, when parody humour was king. The 88-minute running time contains quite effective humorous references to the crime genre, and deserves to be enjoyed with a big bag of popcorn. Now, what should we expect from the new version, with Liam Neeson? Rated 4 out of 5 stars 07/13/25 Full Review Lincoln B A quirky and truly funny 80’s movie that reminds me of other spoofs like Holy Grail and Airplane. I laughed a lot at this but had a few problems with it. One of the romances has a huge age gap and i’m honestly not sure if it’s intentional. Also, unlike other spoofs this isn’t really for kids despite it’s obvious slapstick and light humor. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 06/26/25 Full Review Craig H Some really hilarious moments that had be laughing quite abit and I love spoofy literal humour so a fair bit of it worked for me. Leslie Nielsen is so good with his deadpan style too. My problem with relentlessly funny films is I get exhausted from all the humour and as the film goes on I found it less funny and this happened here but it didnt take away my appreciation of the silliness of it all. Definitely one of the funniest movies ive seen even despite it only being funny about 25% of the time but thats all it needed to be Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 06/16/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen), a rather clueless police detective, tries to foil a plot to turn innocent people into assassins through mind control. After his partner, Norberg (O.J. Simpson), is shot, Frank sets out to find the culprit, leading him to business tycoon Vincent Ludwig (Ricardo Montalban). However, Frank has no evidence until he meets Jane Spencer (Priscilla Presley), Ludwig's assistant. She knows nothing about Ludwig's devious plans, but falls for Frank and agrees to help him.
Director
David Zucker
Producer
Robert K. Weiss
Screenwriter
Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Pat Proft
Distributor
Paramount Pictures
Production Co
Paramount Pictures
Rating
PG-13
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Dec 2, 1988, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 1, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA)
$77.9M
Runtime
1h 25m
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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