The Naked Gun

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The Naked Gun

PG-13

Released Dec 2, 1988

1h 25m

Comedy

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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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Critics Consensus

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

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Nigel Andrews

Financial Times

The joy of The Naked Gun is its lunatic sobriety.

Jul 24, 2025

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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

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Andre Dellamorte

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Melvin D.

A truly classic movie.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/19/25

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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

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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

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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

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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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