Remember when The Martian won Best Comedy/Musical at the Golden Globes, or the continued classification of The Bear as a comedy despite a lot of evidence to the contrary? Well there’s no such confusion with Liam Neeson’s The Naked Gun — it’s a comedy to its core, and a pretty solid one at that.
A refresh of the Leslie Nielsen police comedies of the late 1980s and early 1990s, The Naked Gun is absolutely absurd and splendidly stupid, which is exactly what you’d expect from this franchise. Neeson takes over the role of Detective Frank Drebin (Jr.) and, along with Pamela Anderson, director Akiva Schaffer and producer Seth MacFarlane, they create a comedy that shoots off jokes first and worries about everything else later.
