Rating: PG13
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 08/15/2000
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1/DDS
Run Time: 82 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Paramount
The further misadventures of bumbling Los Angeles police Lieutenant Frank Drebin (
Leslie Nielsen) are chronicled in this third installment in the popular
Naked Gun comedy series. This by-the-numbers entry begins with Drebin as a happily retired house-husband called back into action when an evil terrorist organization threatens Los Angeles. As in the other
Naked Gun films, this plot is merely an excuse for an unhinged, rapid-fire succession of gags, ranging from satirical lampoons of cop movies to broad slapstick, all played with a perfectly straight face. Nielsen provides his familiar combination of complete witlessness and oblivious dignity as Drebin, and the film attempts to match the earlier
Naked Gun films -- and the
Police Squad! television series that inspired them -- in the number of jokes. However, the film proved less successful than its predecessors, as some viewers found that the freewheeling comic style of the earlier films had solidified into its own formula, now mildly entertaining but disappointingly predictable.
~ Judd Blaise, All Movie Guide
;)
