Naked Gun Reboot

[Rod Hagen]

SO much better than I would have expected.   Quite a funny movie, and there aren't many comedies anymore.

 

 

[MikeThomas]

23 hours ago, Rod Hagen said:

SO much better than I would have expected.   Quite a funny movie, and there aren't many comedies anymore.

 

 

Young people are so easily triggered these days it’s hard to do comedy. 
 

Thanks for the thumbs up.  I’m looking forward to watching this.

 

[+ ApexNomad]

I saw this today, and boy, does it make you yearn for, and appreciate, the comedic genius of Leslie Nielsen. Aside from a handful of jokes and sight gags, I wasn’t impressed. Found it boring. Liam Neeson was pretty awful in this. He was painfully flat. Martin Short, Bryan Cranston, Hugh Laurie, Steve Martin… any of these guys could have brought life to the absurdity of the material.

I don’t see the point of using old footage from the original movie in the end credits when they went with a completely different theme and music for the opening. If you wanted to capture the tone, introduce that up front.

There’s also a blink-and-you-miss-it cameo from Priscilla Presley, who, sadly, looks almost unrecognizable.

In the end, it feels like they borrowed the name but forgot the spirit, missing the sharp timing, deadpan delivery, and fearless absurdity that made the originals classics.

[jeezifonly]

What was once easily recognized as satire now blends seamlessly with the bizarre reality of behavioral tolerance today. I’ve loved these broad outrageous genre-spoof comedies since seeing Airplane! in the theater. Once they allow the Studio Legal Dept. to determine what’s funny, the fizz is gone.