# New "Naked Gun" movie starting Liam Neeson **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [April 4, 2025, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612 "2025-04-04T13:16:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/61 "2025-04-05T22:29:33Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > But he was also in **The Lego Movie**. Briefly and again mostly playing on his serious side. Having said that, I don’t know how many of you saw The Parenting this year on HBO-Max, but it was a comedy starting Brian Cox and: 1. He plays a very caring, gentle Dad who just wants to do his best for his son and fiance. 2. He also is really funny in it throughout and I don’t see Cox as a hilarious guy. It can work sometimes! ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/62 "2025-04-06T00:52:15Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Saw the jokes coming. Foreshadowing! [![](https://i0.wp.com/halobrien.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_1134.jpeg?resize=768%2C279&ssl=1) ](https://i0.wp.com/halobrien.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/IMG_1134.jpeg?resize=768%2C279&ssl=1) ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/63 "2025-04-06T16:23:48Z")
I’m cautiously optimistic, the names involved are people who at least grew up on these and will probably have the proper “reverence” rather than a simple nostalgia cash grab. It might be bad, but it will be because they failed, not because they didn’t try at all. ---
**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:** [April 6, 2025, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/64 "2025-04-06T16:28:37Z")
Just from the trailer, it looks to me like the violence is going to be too realistic and extreme for my wife to enjoy it, which means probably too much for many other people and kids. We just watched the original last night, and all the “violence” was cartoonish and silly, not sticking a spike in someone’s face. ---
**Author:** ![Cumberdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Cumberdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumberdale)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/65 "2025-04-06T19:53:15Z")
I’m it as big a fan of the Naked Gun movies as I am of the Police Squad series. I didn’t care for turning Drebin into a clumsy Clouseau type character. Still, a lot of it is very funny. As for the football player photo, I’d of like to have seen a photo of Norberg from the TV series, though I’m sure not many would get the reference today. ---
**Author:** ![ewomack](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ewomack/32/19149_2.png) [@ewomack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ewomack)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/66 "2025-04-06T20:22:40Z")
The world definitely needs more good comedies right now, but I’ll have to see more to be convinced whether the world needs a “Naked Gun” reboot at this time. Where are the original ideas? Do we no longer have a culture that can think outside of nostalgia? Are reboots the only option? I’m beginning to feel that Nietzsche was absolutely correct about eternal recurrence. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/67 "2025-04-06T21:49:54Z")
> [@ewomack](#): > > Where are the original ideas? There are in fact plenty of original movies being made every year, they just don’t get a cinematic release anymore, they get relegated to streaming, lost in the algorithm. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/68 "2025-04-06T23:56:07Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > they get relegated to streaming Not always. A lot of the films I watched last year that i consider pretty good were not only released to streaming. A lot of them I watched at local theaters that didn’t concentrate on just blockbuster films. My favorite movies last year were _Winner_, _Coup de Chance_, _Beetlejuice Beetlejuice_, _Inside Out 2_, _It Ends with Us_, _Thelma_, _Janet Planet_, _Widow Clicquot, Dìdi_, _Problemista_, _The Wild Robot_, _Wicked Little Letters_, _Saturday Night_, _We Live in Time_, _Blitz_, _Anora_, _Wicked – Part 1_, _A Real Pain_, _A Complete Unknown_, _Nosferatu_, _Sing Sing_, _The Room Next Door_, _Nickel Boys_, _I’m Still Here_, and _Ezra_. I know that they weren’t just released to streaming because I never stream movies. Some of those films were shown in theaters that also showed blockbusters, but many of them were not. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/69 "2025-04-07T07:33:47Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > I’m cautiously optimistic, the names involved are people who at least grew up on these and will probably have the proper “reverence” rather than a simple nostalgia cash grab. It might be bad, but it will be because they failed, not because they didn’t try at all. It already seems light years better than the parody/spoof movies that have come out post-_Naked Gun_/_Hot Shots_, like _Date Movie_ or _Disaster Movie_ ---
**Author:** ![Moonrise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moonrise/32/14764_2.png) [@Moonrise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonrise)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/70 "2025-04-07T07:50:09Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > We just watched the original last night, and all the “violence” was cartoonish and silly, not sticking a spike in someone’s face. That’s my feeling too. I don’t have problems with violence in films per se, but it is out of tune with the feel of the original. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/71 "2025-04-07T11:28:18Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > It already seems light years better than the parody/spoof movies that have come out post-_Naked Gun_/_Hot Shots_, like _Date Movie_ or _Disaster Movie_ Well _that’s_ a low bar to clear. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/72 "2025-04-07T14:26:03Z")
One thing that the original Frank Drebin had was that he looked like The Establishment. He was the square, white-bread authority figure straight out of Dragnet. The Zuckers were lampooning that culture as much as just being zany. “I speak Jive” would NOT have been as funny if it had been delivered by a random old lady instead of a matriarch of 50’s culture Barbara Billingsly. I don’t think that Neeson or the creators of the film can capture that humor in their parody simply because that era is too far gone. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/73 "2025-04-07T18:05:55Z")
> [@ewomack](#): > > Where are the original ideas? Do we no longer have a culture that can think outside of nostalgia? Are reboots the only option? I’m beginning to feel that Nietzsche was absolutely correct about eternal recurrence. On one hand, I hear you-- the constant remakes and reboots were already tiresome 20 years ago. I remember rolling my eyes on hearing there was going to be a 'Dukes of Hazzard" movie in 2005. Do we really need a fresh, slightly edgier, 21st century PG-13 rated take on the Duke Boys and their (mis)adventures, I wondered at the time? Answer: no, we did not. On the other hand, eh, even Shakespeare recycled old plot and story elements for his plays. Everything old is new again. I’ll take a well-made reboot over a mediocre totally original script. ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/74 "2025-04-07T18:08:16Z")
Isn’t it a sequel rather than a reboot? ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/75 "2025-04-07T18:13:08Z")
Well, it has the same title as the first movie, so it feels like a reboot. But he does mention being related to Frank Drebin…so technically a sequel. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/76 "2025-04-07T18:14:29Z")
Ah, so a sequoot then. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/77 "2025-04-07T18:16:38Z")
Or a requel. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/78 "2025-04-07T18:25:09Z")
You have to figure at some point they were considering the title “Son of a Naked Gun.” ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/79 "2025-04-07T18:27:38Z")
👍👍👍 ---
**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:** [April 7, 2025, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612/80 "2025-04-07T19:08:41Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > I don’t think that Neeson or the creators of the film can capture that humor in their parody simply because that era is too far gone. I agree. I expect this to be largely fan service for the original, with too much realistic violence in an attempt to appeal to younger audiences. I’m not hopeful. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-naked-gun-movie-starting-liam-neeson/1016612.md?page=5)