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Watched yesterday the new Naked Gun with Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin’s son. The first ten minutes? I chuckled. A couple of decent gags gave me some hope. Then it slowly turned into a hostage situation and my free time was the ransom.
Nostalgia is milked so hard the cow’s ready to sue. The humor after the opening feels like it’s been stuck in storage since the 80s and forgot to renew its passport. This isn’t a remake...it’s a museum exhibit, complete with the “Do Not Touch” sign, except here it reads: “Do Not Laugh Too Hard, You Might Remember the Original.”
Neeson tries his best with deadpan delivery (it looks like he’s serious about doing comedy). But the movie mostly drifts along on the fumes of “Remember the old jokes? We remember them too!” If you loved the original, you might grin here and there....but mostly it serves as a reminder that comedy ages quickly and not always gracefully.
In the end it feels like a bold experiment: take a comedy, surgically remove most of the comedy, then release it as a major studio film. If that’s supposed to be the punchline, the setup....lasting only 85 minutes....still didn’t land.
My verdict: Cherish your fond memories of the original. If you’ve got free time on your hands, do literally anything else. Watch paint dry, organize your sock drawer, or better yet, actually rewatch the original Naked Gun. At least then, you’ll be laughing for the right reasons.