I have to come clean. I had never watched The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad until not all that long ago. Guilty as charged for the crime of being a “Johnny Come Lately,” I finally sat down and watched what has long been considered one of the best spoof movies of all time before the release of the upcoming reboot starring Liam Neeson, before it lands on the 2025 movie schedule. Not only did the Leslie Nielsen movie about a hapless detective trying to clear his friend’s name make me laugh, it also made me kick myself for waiting so damn long.
Seriously, The Naked Gun features one outrageous bit after another, making this a series of hilarious gags, action sequences, and jokes about bodily functions that had me laughing so hard I thought I was going to wake up my family. While I would love to talk about them all, I only have time for six of the funniest bits the movie had to offer.
