Word: nakedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
THE inevitable question about The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! has to be: Is it as funny as Airplane! (which also came from the writing/production team of David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Robert Weiss)? The answer is a qualified yes. At best, The Naked Gun...
Like Airplane!, Naked Gun turns everything into a gag. Drebin can't park his car or pick up a pen without something calamitous happening. Many of the gags, in fact, are obvious, but that's part of the film's charm; the movie operates on bringing out the silliness of...
Naked Gun's script thrives on the same groaner puns and absurd hyperbole that distinguished Airplane! When the movie's villain, played with oily elegance by Ricardo Montalban, offers Nielsen a cigar he says, "Cuban?" "No," replies Nielsen, "I'm Dutch-Irish." Montalban's dignified demeanor is a perfect foil...
THE movie spoofs everything possible. The hospital is called "Our Lady of the Worthless Miracles." Condoms are called "Titans" (not Trojans) and are slightly larger than usual. And while some film comedies are content to have someone note that the food in their refrigerator is so old it could walk...