If you’ve felt like Hollywood theatrical comedies have been going the way of the dinosaur, you may not be alone. In which case, the reboot of The Naked Gun (from Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping’s Akiva Schaffer) will feel like an answer to your most desperate prayers in the form of several dozen pie gags to the face — metaphorically speaking. The actual gags in Schaffer’s Liam Neeson vehicle are, simultaneously, a whole lot dumber and a whole lot smarter than that, and they’re fired off with such machine-gun pacing that you might miss a couple while laughing, or simply blinking. It’s the funniest goddamn thing in years.
