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:
It can work sometimes!
Foreshadowing!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Well that’s a low bar to clear.
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.
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.
Isn’t it a sequel rather than a reboot?
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.
Ah, so a sequoot then.
Or a requel.
You have to figure at some point they were considering the title “Son of a Naked Gun.”
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.