Watching The Naked Gun (2025), Akiva Schaffer’s remake of the 1988 slapstick classic, I got the impression he had been waiting his whole life to make this movie. The screenplay is a rapid‑fire catalog of jokes; ninety brisk minutes of sight gags, wordplay, and pratfalls.
Not every joke lands, but most do, and many had my packed theater roaring. Even the throwaways, like when Detective Frank Drebin responds to “You can’t fight City Hall” with a deadpan “It’s a building, Ed,” easily wrest a chuckle. It was clear from the atmosphere in the theater that audiences have been yearning for a comedy like this, one unabashedly silly and unafraid to revel in it.
Starring Liam Neeson as Police Squad’s Detective Frank Drebin Jr., the film is
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