The Naked Gun (2025)

One of THE most frustrating trends in the mainstream film industry over the last several decades has been the onset of comedy efforts that seem SO focused on being crude and/or gross-out in all ways possible. That, at least for me, makes them no longer funny. This isn't to say things remain one hundred percent CLEAN, mind you, which I wouldn't expect from Hollywood anyone, but at least give me something that's just silly, zany, wacky, and ok, still a tad off-color...and kilter!

It is with great elation that I can definitively state this has been accomplished in spades through the new, refreshed version of "The Naked Gun" that exploded into cinemas with slapstick, physical, and yes, utterly off-color and off-kilter comedic bombast that is precisely what we needed again for the genre. Updating yet also staying true to its 1988 predecessor's style and wit, this exercise in Zucker Brothers humor warrants attention while giving you the escape you require to simply sit back and relish LAUGHING from start to finish.

Timing in at a BRISK (and totally apropos) eighty-minutes long, the film that sees the hysterical misadventures of veteran cop Frank Drebin, Jr. (the son of the original's Frank who was played by the incomparable Leslie Nielsen and here played by an equally riotous Liam Neeson!) who finds himself yet again embroiled in any and all situations that give him room to cause as much chaos as possible, ALL for our belly laugh-inducing pleasure. From the VERY first sequence to the end, I truly can say the majority of the time was SPENT just roaring!