# Favourite 'Naked Gun' style movies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 3, 2016, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-naked-gun-style-movies/764970 "2016-09-03T23:28:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-naked-gun-style-movies/764970/21 "2016-09-04T03:20:59Z")
**Airplane** , of course. I mean, it had Leslie Nielsen in it. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-naked-gun-style-movies/764970/22 "2016-09-04T04:39:48Z")
> [@Patch](#): > > [Three Amigos.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HdlYVKBUVE) Mil Milion Gracias! That movie isn’t my favorite, but I love it a lot. This is a really wonderful scene; I love the “facial acting” – the mugging! – these guys are pulling off here. In the genre, I guess Top Secret is my fave. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-naked-gun-style-movies/764970/23 "2016-09-04T05:09:38Z")
If you liked any of these films, you’ll love the new “Police Squad”-like series, _Angie Tribeca_, on TBS. The first season was pretty consistently hilarious, the second not so much. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-naked-gun-style-movies/764970/24 "2016-09-04T05:26:58Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > If you liked any of these films, you’ll love the new “Police Squad”-like series, _Angie Tribeca_, on TBS. The first season was pretty consistently hilarious, the second not so much. I tried, but there’s just something about it that isn’t clicking with me the way the Zucker films or the original Police Squad series did. I’m not entirely sure what it is, but I watched two episodes and haven’t gotten back to it. Maybe it gets better? Kentucky Fried Movie and Amazon Women on the Moon were going to be my two suggestions. And, of course, Hot Shots. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-naked-gun-style-movies/764970/25 "2016-09-04T06:54:49Z")
There’s really only ever been two people that can pull these types of movies off, or two families, more accurately: 1. The Zuckers + Jim Abrahams 2. The Wayans And there’s a huge gulf between the two, and an even bigger gulf below them. I can’t think of a single well received absurdist comedy that wasn’t made by one of those two families. The Zuckers and Jim Abrahams IMO are up there with Cameron, Spielberg and Nolan. Not so much because their output has been as brilliant, but because the type of movie they make has been tried again and again and only they’ve pulled it off. BEtter than pulled it off, actually, Airplane has a 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 7.8 on IMDB. Naked Gun is almost as highly rated. Until someone else can do that, they have to be in the conversation when talking about the greatest of all time. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-naked-gun-style-movies/764970/26 "2016-09-04T07:43:13Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > The Zuckers and Jim Abrahams IMO are up there with Cameron, Spielberg and Nolan. Not so much because their output has been as brilliant, but because the type of movie they make has been tried again and again and only they’ve pulled it off. BEtter than pulled it off, actually, Airplane has a 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 7.8 on IMDB. Naked Gun is almost as highly rated. Until someone else can do that, they have to be in the conversation when talking about the greatest of all time. I read somewhere that when Robert Stack got the script for _Airplane_ he thought it was the worst thing he’d ever read. And after I thought about it for a while, I decided he was probably right. Try to imagine you haven’t seen the movie, and then read this: STRIKER: Surely you can’t be serious. RUMACK: I am serious… and don’t call me Shirley. As words on a page, they just lie there like a dead dog. That’s how great Abrahams and the Zuckers were; they knew that if they could be that silly, but play it absolutely serious, that it would be hysterical. And then they managed to get the perfect actors for it, and got great deadpan performances from them. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-naked-gun-style-movies/764970/27 "2016-09-04T11:09:50Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > **Airplane** , of course. I mean, it had Leslie Nielsen in it. Yes. I’m surprised this thread isn’t called the “Favorite Airplane-type movie.” ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-naked-gun-style-movies/764970/28 "2016-09-04T11:39:09Z")
The Wayans have strangled their version of it to death, but they did do one of the original good ones: “I’m gonna get you sucka” I think I lost bladder control when a joke involving a leg happened. It’s a pity they went so bad afterwards. Their Scary Movie stuff was actually saved by the involvement of a Zucker (director and writer) and Jim Abrahams (writer). ---
**Author:** ![SigMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SigMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SigMan)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-naked-gun-style-movies/764970/29 "2016-09-04T12:21:02Z")
Johnny Dangerously. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-naked-gun-style-movies/764970/30 "2016-09-04T13:42:28Z")
[**The Groove Tube**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Groove_Tube). > [@WordMan](#): > > Yes. I’m surprised this thread isn’t called the “Favorite Airplane-type movie.” QFT. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-naked-gun-style-movies/764970/31 "2016-09-04T14:00:47Z")
Blazing Saddles for a western. Anything with Mel Brooks involved. If you’re just talking parodies, there’s Galaxy Quest. ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-naked-gun-style-movies/764970/32 "2016-09-04T14:07:24Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > Yes. I’m surprised this thread isn’t called the “Favorite Airplane-type movie.” “apart from the classic Airplane and Naked Gun movies what other examples in the genre would you recommend?” 🙂 I actually saw The Naked Gun before Airplane so its what leaps to mind for me first. Thanks for the recommendations everyone, I didn’t realise the Wayans brothers had made other similar movies in particular, so I’ll have to check those out. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-naked-gun-style-movies/764970/33 "2016-09-04T15:07:24Z")
I’m Gonna Git You Sucka is probably my favourite of the non-Naked Gun, non-Airplane tier. Antonio Fargas running away in his crazy shoes, Chris Rock buying one rib, Isaac Hayes, Jim Brown, John Vernon, etc. Black Dynamite is awesome, too. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-naked-gun-style-movies/764970/34 "2016-09-04T15:25:58Z")
I love Top Secret and Rat Race, but I’ll second the vote of Johnny Dangerously as my favorite outside of Airplane and Naked Gun themselves. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-naked-gun-style-movies/764970/35 "2016-09-04T15:43:06Z")
I kinda figured they could never do another straight 007 movie after Austin Powers. “Begin the unnecessarily slow-moving dipping mechanism, and close the tank!” “Wait, aren’t you even going to watch them? They could get away!” “No, no, no; I’m going to leave them alone and not actually witness them dying.” “…” “I’m just gonna assume it all went to plan. What?” “I have a gun, in my room; give me five seconds, BOOM, I’ll blow their brains out.” “Scott, ya just don’t – _get it,_ do ya? Ya don’t.” ---
**Author:** ![4d3fect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/4d3fect/32/9728_2.png) [@4d3fect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/4d3fect)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-naked-gun-style-movies/764970/36 "2016-09-04T17:21:06Z")
> [@SigMan](#): > > Johnny Dangerously. 😛 Fargin iceholes ---
**Author:** ![4d3fect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/4d3fect/32/9728_2.png) [@4d3fect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/4d3fect)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-naked-gun-style-movies/764970/37 "2016-09-04T17:22:26Z")
I think Galaxy Quest is up there in the genre spoof type comedies. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-naked-gun-style-movies/764970/38 "2016-09-04T17:53:01Z")
_Not Another Teen Movie_ was good. You could tell the people who made it actually knew the genre they were parodying. ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-naked-gun-style-movies/764970/39 "2016-09-04T17:54:36Z")
No love for Undercover Brother? Does Kung Fu Hustle fit into this genre? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2016, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-naked-gun-style-movies/764970/40 "2016-09-04T18:01:53Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > In the genre, I guess Top Secret is my fave. [It’s a favorite of Weird Al Yankovic](https://thedissolve.com/features/compulsory-viewing/173-weird-al-yankovics-vote-for-funniest-movie-ever-to/), too. Speaking of whom, **UHF** isn’t exactly a spoof movie _per se_, but it has a lot of the same kind of humor & appeal as the movies listed in this thread. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-naked-gun-style-movies/764970.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-naked-gun-style-movies/764970.md?page=3)