The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

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.

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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.

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Sebastian Zavala Kahn

Me gusta el cine

It may not be the best of the three (for me), but even after thirty-seven years (!), the first “Naked Gun” is still a memorable and frequently funny comedy, which only begins to fall apart during its third act. [Full review in Spanish].

Rated: 4/5

Jul 30, 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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Cecil D

Great job on the remake

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/03/25

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Waki W

This film was worth watching! It was fun movie and especially the car chase that was good! It was fun. Some parts were cliche.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

09/02/25

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Bucas L.

Honestly I didn’t love the movie and didn’t find it to funny myself because I enjoy different types of humor not the goofy kind this is. But I gave it 3 stars anyways because I think it would be a great movie for an audience with a type of humor accustom to a movie like this.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

08/26/25

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Dani G

Leslie Nielsen made an art of acting in this type of movies. Silly as hell, but in that time it was the funniest thing. Now, at least you can have some laughs. Better than many comedies of this era

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

08/25/25

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Sam W

Silly and daft but highly entertaining with plenty of gags, one liners and slapstick humour. The story and characters were functional but the villain and plot weren’t particularly inspired and some of the jokes are dragged out for too long towards the end, but it was still funny throughout.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

08/25/25

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Mason M

A friend made me finally watch this for the first time in preparation for seeing the new remake, and I enjoyed this film quite the bit. I get why The Naked Gun is such a classic, it's hilarious and a very enjoyable watch. It's an entertaining satire that manages to make fun of detective film tropes while still subverting expectations and making me care about the plot. It's well written, pretty well directed, Leslie Nielsen does a great job. It's funny, it doesn't try to do much more than that, and it certainly gets the job done.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

08/20/25

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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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