David Zucker's closing film in his wacky-races-inspired Naked Gun Trilogy based on his TV show lacks the freshness of the first movie and the elegance of the second, but it still offers the same laughs, gigs and gags.
The movie's attitude is seen in the title. This is "the final insult" as in the final joke of a movie in this trilogy. He doesn't see his movies as art, I bet he doesn't even feel like the series deserve to step in the glamourous, pretentious and potentially artsy world of the cinema. But The Naked Gun did that anyway and it propels its insult to Hollywood's HQ--The Academy Awards. The movie sees Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) coming out of retirement to help Police Squad infiltrate a gang of terrorists planning to detonate a bomb at the aforementioned Awards.
The parody of the Oscars is subtle, safe but really efficient and tries not to miss any opportunity from describing each best actress nominee as "a women's struggles against" something to hyping up a Mother Teresa musical. It's all effective and all in good fun.
Whatever the Zuckers thought "The Naked Gun" should or should not achieve in cinema--if they even had any expectations--I will tell you the series is overall a success. Why? Again, because I laughed. A lot.
The movie's attitude is seen in the title. This is "the final insult" as in the final joke of a movie in this trilogy. He doesn't see his movies as art, I bet he doesn't even feel like the series deserve to step in the glamourous, pretentious and potentially artsy world of the cinema. But The Naked Gun did that anyway and it propels its insult to Hollywood's HQ--The Academy Awards. The movie sees Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) coming out of retirement to help Police Squad infiltrate a gang of terrorists planning to detonate a bomb at the aforementioned Awards.
The parody of the Oscars is subtle, safe but really efficient and tries not to miss any opportunity from describing each best actress nominee as "a women's struggles against" something to hyping up a Mother Teresa musical. It's all effective and all in good fun.
Whatever the Zuckers thought "The Naked Gun" should or should not achieve in cinema--if they even had any expectations--I will tell you the series is overall a success. Why? Again, because I laughed. A lot.