The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)

People are voting emotionally.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Crazy literal humour from Leslie neilson and cast, always a fun watch with quotable lines!

"The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!" tells the story of a very motivated, yet very chaotic inspector at the police forces, who is hired to take care of the Queen's safety during her visit in the United States while having to battle a gangster boss whose aim it is to turn innocent people into cold-blooded killers.The movie is in many parts a great parody of the countless police action movies that have been around and inspired similar modern approaches such as "Austin Powers" or "Johnny English". I have to admit that, though I'm normally not a big fan of slapstick, many of the gags are presented very clever and show a very decent humor instead of just going for the easy laughs. Nontheless the plot remains nonsense of course and thus you shouldn't expect a great movie in terms of tension or story. On the other hand, those parts are clearly not in the focus of this title and so I think we can all live with this fact.All in all this is a great parody that still convinces with clever humor even decades after its production. It is, however, not a great film in itself and so I'll give it a medium rating but still advise to give it a try.

If you like comedy movies, then I would definitely recommend this movie. Leslie Nielsen stars as the main character, and he certainly outdoes himself. This was a hilarious movie, and I was laughing throughout. One scene in particular had me actually cry from laughing so hard, something that a movie had never done before. If you want to go and see a movie that will have you laughing your socks off, then definitely go see this movie. You won't be disappointed.

For a lot of people, this film happened to be the last great parody movie ever made. It seems like right after this movie, the parody genre just got worse and worse. We finally hit rock bottom with "Disaster Movie" ranked as the worst film of all time by the IMDb. Were people just thinking this movie was a tough act to follow? There have been zero spoof movies since that would be considered truly great. If nothing else, we can at least look back at this once great style. I heard "Sausage Party" was technically a spoof, but it still wasn't on the same level as these old ones. Modern spoof movies just have the characters fart and poop all the time, but these ones actually made us laugh.It is kind of weird looking back and seeing OJ in a good movie role. Of course, he does get injured in this movie a lot. This film is great from the very first jokes. I think my favorite part would be when he says, "Bingo!" and finds a Bingo card. This is another movie you have to pay attention to in order to get all the laughs in. I just love how this film escalates in its zaniness. Even if you've seen a compilation of best parts like me, there's still more to love. The madness doesn't even end with the credits. There's this gag where they list every person by labeling them with their dialogue! It actually does make sense, in a really amusing way. The pop culture references are a lot more subtle than other films and it works much better that way.This is what comedy should be. The slapstick is wonderfully timed. Everything comes together so well in this. There's always jokes that build up to each other and best of all, it has a coherent story. They do work hard to make these jokes relevant as to what is going on, not just random interchangeable gags. Even better is that I actually really do care about the main characters in this. I wanted them to get out okay! For all the laughs, there was good emotion here too. I didn't even know this was based on a TV show. I have seen some clips of it and it seems great too! I think the directors eventually split over arguments which is why their films have declined, ending with the worst, "Scary Movie V". While there are still great comedies, we'll never be restored to this level of quality in spoofs right here. May this film and its spirit live on forever! ****