The Naked Gun (2025)

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The latest Episode of the LAMBcast covers the new Naked Gun Film. So Here is a timely post on the film.

It's nice sometimes when your expectations are overcome by actual accomplishments. When I saw the trailer for the new Naked Gun film I did not have a lot of Hope. I did think the casting of Liam Neeson was probably the right move, but the way they played him up as disguising himself is a 8 year old girl seemed inconsistent with the form of humor that I was expecting from a Naked Gun movie. And truth that scene is out of character for the most part, although there is one other sequence that mimics the same silliness. By the way I have nothing against silliness, I just think it works best if it is consistent.

I will most certainly return to the Naked Gun because I'm sure I missed a lot of the books in the background. I probably missed a number of jokes in the dialogue as well, because I laughed a lot and as a result lost some Focus. I can't say that it was as consistently funny as the original films were, but I can say I laughed a lot and I was surprised at how much satisfaction I took at the attempt to mimic the Zucker Abraham  Zucker touch.

Pamela Anderson appears in the film as the female protagonist, and she plays at age appropriate and it seems fitting that she and Neeson are matched on film. She can play the straight to the funny as well as he can. Kudos should also go to Danny Huston, who seems to make a career out of playing villains lately. In this film is sinisterly funny, and the final gag was one of my favorite moments in the movie. So in addition to a bit with the dog, a film also benefits from a bit with a jetpack.

You can listen to us talk about this on the Lambcast, where we try to avoid simply repeating all of the jokes, but fail to some degree. But we all do agree that the movie is funny.