Review of The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

As a team, ZAZ directed one classic movie Airplane! As solo, each directed at least one great film and David Zucker directed this. This was the first spoof film I saw and it changed my views on them completely. I used to hate spoofs / parodies like poison - maybe it was because of Scary Movie series and the other recent ones - but The Naked Gun showed me just how great and on-the-spot they just were. Although this film is nowhere near any of Mel Brooks' movies, I consider it to be one of the best spoof movies ever made and one that is genuinely funny and highly entertaining to the end. But of course, this is not Mel Brooks so it inevitably had quite tedious moments (the pen-tank scene and the statue scene with the dick) but who can forget the baseball scene? Now that's classic!

This is easily Leslie Nielsen's best role ever and subsequently, the best film he ever starred in, as the lead role. His character, Frank Drebin is one of the funniest I've ever seen and his deadpan delivery and great timing once again did the trick. Almost most of the supporting were fine but it was George Kennedy that won me over. I don't know why but his character was funny and his performance was good!

So, despite quite-tedious moments and tried-and-tested scenes, The Naked Gun is nevertheless one of the best. Too bad David Zucker is making those silly Scary Movie series now.