The Naked Gun/The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear/Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult
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Artist: Artist Not ProvidedBrand: PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Anamorphic, Box set, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 251 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-08-07
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount
DVD Reviews of The Naked Gun/The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear/Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult
DVD Review: A great DVD package to remember Leslie Nielsen by
Summary: 5 Stars
In the beginning, there was "Police Squad", a daffy, dizzy sendup of crime drama shows by the team of Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker. Debuting in the summer of 1982, it only aired six episodes and folded. Why? "Because you have to pay attention" was the response. Television was clearly the wrong venue for this type of "Airplane"-inspired spoofery. And so, "Police Squad" got a second life on the big screen...and renamed "The Naked Gun".
As with many of the "serious" actors who appeared in "Airplane", Leslie Nielsen was reborn a true movie clown...and he clearly loved his new job! The more straight-faced he delivered a one-liner or a sight gag, the funnier he was. Here, Paramount Pictures has done the smart thing & packaged the entire "Naked Gun" trilogy into one nifty case.
Starting with the first NG (1988), bumbling, clueless Lt. Frank Drebin proceeds to investigate a plot to assassinate the Queen of England during a visit to L.A., wreak hilarious havoc on baddie Ricardo Montalban's office, romance Jane Spencer (Priscilla Presley), and somehow save the day during a baseball game. "NG: The Smell of Fear" has Drebin lonely & heartbroken over his split with Jane. Meanwhile, an eco-villain (an effectively oily Robert Goulet) plans to sabotage an eco-friendly energy proposal for his own gain. "The Final Insult" has been deemed a notch or two below the first two films; maybe it was just too much of a good thing. However, it's still leagues funnier than other lame comedies trying to do the same thing. Drebin is retired & domesticated now, enjoying marital bliss (sort of: they're seeking counseling). But when a dangerous criminal (Fred Ward in a tour-de-force of all those old gangster movie roles) schemes to break out of prison & targets a major event as a terrorist act, Drebin relishes the chance to go undercover to unravel his plans. Some of the jokes we've seen & heard in the first two; the real draw is the climactic Academy Awards ceremony, which Drebin disrupts in hysterical fashion.
The supporting cast is inspired: Presley is surprisingly good as "straightwoman" to Neilsen's buffoonery; George Kennedy serves a similar role as Neilsen's superior; and yes, even O.J. Simpson deserves some credit as victimized Norberg, before Simpson fled (unsuccessfully) from the law in a white Bronco. But ultimately, these movies belong to Nielsen. To go through all the crazy moments in these films would be like writing a novel, so I won't bother.
Thank you, Mr. Nielsen, for all the belly laughs you gave me with these movies!
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NAKED GUN: Those screw-loose Airplane! creators have done it again! Leslie Nielsen stars as Police Squad's own granite-jawed, rock-brained cop Frank Drebin, who bumbles across a mind-control scheme to assassinate Queen Elizabeth. Priscilla Presley, O.J. Simpson, a stuffed beaver, two baseball teams and an odd assortment of others join the wacko goings-on and blow the laugh-o-meter to smithereens. NAKED GUN 2 & 1/2: Leslie Nielsen returns as the intrepid (and accident-prone) Lt. Frank Drebin in Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear, "un film de David Zucker." This second feature film from the "Police Squad!" series finds Drebin as a guest at a White House dinner, receiving an award for shooting his 1,000th drug dealer, although he admits to shooting only 998 ? he ran over the last two in his car. ("Luckily, they turned out to be drug dealers"). Also at the White House dinner is energy czar Dr. Albert S. Meinheimer (Richard Griffiths), whom President George Bush (John Roarke) has chosen to start a new national energy policy. Since Meinheimer believes in promoting alternative energy resources, the evil leaders of the polluting energy industries (coal, oil, and nuclear power?or the lobby groups SMOKE, SPILL and KABOOM) are horrified at Bush's choice. Joining together with arch-villain Quentin Hapsburg (Robert Goulet), they plan to kidnap the real Meinheimer and substitute a fake Meinheimer in his place who will enact energy policy according to the dictates of the energy lobby. Drebin becomes deeply involved in the conspiracy when he runs into his ex-girl friend Jane (Priscilla Presley), who is not only Meinheimer's public relations director but also Hapsburg's current paramour. NAKED GUN 33 & 1/3: The further misadventures of bumbling Los Angeles police Lieutenant Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) are chronicled in this third installment in the popular Naked Gun comedy series. This by-the-numbers entry begins with Drebin as a happily retired house-husband called back into action when an evil terrorist organization threatens Los Angeles. As in the other Naked Gun films, this plot is merely an excuse for an unhinged, rapid-fire succession of gags, ranging from satirical lampoons of cop movies to broad slapstick, all played with a perfectly straight face. Nielsen provides his familiar combination of complete witlessness and oblivious dignity as Drebin, and the film attempts to match the earlier Naked Gun films ? and the Police Squad! television series that inspired them ? in the number of jokes. However, the film proved less successful than its predecessors, as some viewers found that the freewheeling comic style of the earlier films had solidified into its own formula, now mildly entertaining but disappointingly predictable.Bestsellers in DVD
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