I was a big fan of the silly humor of the original Police Squad<\/em> and its follow-on movies.\u00a0 This latest in the exploits of the LAPD’s special squad now follows Frank Drebin’s son, played by Liam Neeson.\u00a0 He has the same straight-man vibe that Leslie Nielsen did that made the first run so successful.\u00a0 The movie pays homage to original cast members (and in one case DOESN’T pay homage on purpose). Pamela Anderson was a lot better as the female lead than I expected.<\/p>\n It has been years since I have heard my wife laugh so much at anything, so I think the movie is successful.\u00a0 There were a couple of running gags that lost their effectiveness, but I admire that they kept up with it. We could do with more farce in our lives and the exercise of examining the background for the humor instead of what’s right in the foreground.<\/p>\n About the only jokes that fell flat for me were the ones intimating a sex scene when looked at via infrared goggles.\u00a0 For me, that just went to a place that I don’t remember the original stooping to for laughs.\u00a0 I suppose that might be the influence of Seth McFarlane, or it just might be what’s permissible now versus the late 1980s.<\/p>\n It was great to watch a movie with less than a ninety-minute runtime, and that included watching the credits for some additional smirks and laughs.\u00a0 I blinked to miss the movie’s run in theaters but was glad to see it on Paramount+.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was a big fan of the silly humor of the original Police Squad and its follow-on movies.\u00a0 This latest in the exploits of the LAPD’s special squad now follows Frank Drebin’s son, played by Liam Neeson.\u00a0 He has the same straight-man vibe that Leslie Nielsen did that made the first run so successful.\u00a0 The … Continue reading “The Naked Gun<\/i> (2025)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[43,33],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-short-take","tag-comedy","tag-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johntilden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}