What? An Honest Trailer for The Naked Gun? How did I miss the movie at my local theater? I'm not losing it; this movie doesn't open until August first. It appears that Screen Junkies has really arrived, because the producers of The Naked Gun approached them about making an Honest Trailer ahead of time.
The Naked Gun is the fourth movie in The Naked Gun franchise, which are all sequels of the 1982 TV series Police Squad! It is the first to be made without Leslie Nielsen playing the main character Lieutenant Frank Drebin. Instead, Liam Neeson plays his son, Frank Drebin Jr. If you've never thought of Neeson as a comedic actor, well, no one thought of Leslie Nielsen as a comedic actor until he starred in Airplane! either. The Naked Gun appears to be a collection of rapid-fire dumb jokes like the earlier Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker films, ensuring that you have to watch it twice to catch them all. Does Screen Junkies like the movie? Considering how they got early access, you can foresee that they do.
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My first thought was uh-oh. If they're doing this perhaps it should be a straight to streaming type release. But smart advertising and it looks like it'll be good for a few weekends of movie leadership. As for Liam who I think previously announced he was done or taking time off from the bad-ass genre, he does have a particular set of skills. He was half-way to full-blown comedy with an admirable performance back in Love Actually so this could be a good first step in that direction.
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