‘The Naked Gun’ review: Liam Neeson is a comedy genius in this brilliantly stupid reboot

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On paper, a Naked Gun reboot seemed a bad idea. For one, the three-film franchise spawned from the silly TV series Police Squad relied heavily on the straight-faced buffoonery of Leslie Nielsen, who died 15 years ago. For another, this film series reveled in spoof and parody, a brand of humor that has fallen largely out of fashion since the 2000s-era boom of films like Scary Movie, Not Another Teen Movie, Epic Movie, and so on.

Beyond that, The Naked Gun's premise is potentially problematic: a shoot-first-ask-questions-never cop who doesn't play by the rules and is idiotic, violent, and catastrophic in his pursuit of a criminal. In 1988, when the first film premiered, Nielsen's Frank Drebin played as a much-needed parody to all the action films that regarded such ...

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