When I first saw the ads for this my reaction was "WTF???" This is so far out of his wheelhouse, it can't be anything but a disaster. Pass.

^^^^^ Lousy trigger discipline there, too.

You do get that this is satire, right? Not a gun safety video? That this is a take off from a 1988 movie? Before everybody got so uptight?

Based solely on the trailers...there seems to be a lack of dry dead-pan humor. What made Leslie Neilson's character so great, was all the roles he had up until Airplane! and Naked Gun were serious roles, generally heavies or, authoritative types, he could be asking an absurd question with suggestive phrasing or farting and the audience is cracking up while he's keeping a straight face. In fact you had a significant number of serious actors like Peter Graves, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges along with Nieson doing comedy for the first time ever, and that's what drove the absurdity of the farce.

Neeson as he's gotten older has done a fair share of comedic roles now, his tough guy persona was shattered a decade ago with A Million Ways to Die and Love Actually. They'd have been better off pulling in people like Daniel Day Lewis, Anthony Hopkins, Denzel Washington, Al Pacino or, Tommy Lee Jones to do the cameo bit that helps drive such projects.

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Originally posted by DanH:
This Will Be Brilliant or Horrific With No Middle Ground

I disagree. I found it neither brilliant nor horrific. It's funny but not totally hilarious. It does have its hilarious moments. The writing for some gags are about two notches better than one might expect. I'd say I did find it funnier than Naked Gun 33 1/3.

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Originally posted by corsair:
Based solely on the trailers...there seems to be a lack of dry dead-pan humor.

No, the humor is pretty dry. In fact, compared to the zany energy that a Zucker Abrahams Zucker production typically emanates, this one has a slightly more dark and restrained tone. That's not a slam—it's just something I noticed.

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Originally posted by jljones:
You do get that this is satire, right? Not a gun safety video? That this is a take off from a 1988 movie? Before everybody got so uptight?

Yeah, I get it. I never found either the original or Leslie Nielsen funny (well, except for Airplane). But then I find most "comedies" to be pretty stupid.

It's free on Paramount. I made it about 12-15 minutes, unfunny and Neeson sucks.

I switched to Fight or Flight with Josh Hartnett, pretty good action flick. I have about 40 minutes left to watch

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Originally posted by BigSwede:
It's free on Paramount. I made it about 12-15 minutes, unfunny and Neeson sucks.

Yeah, but the truth is, I don’t think I ever watched the Leslie Neilson movie either; just don’t much care for comedies like this. I usually make a point of avoiding Liam Neeson movies anyway, but we decided to give it a try. Didn’t cost us much time.

It was below average.

I enthusiastically give The Naked Gun.....2 THUMBS DOWN. Boring and NOT funny.

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No one can ever replace this guy...no one:

Started watching it last night. Absolute piece of doggy barf. Made it a whole 5 minutes. Who thinks this is a good idea?

I had low expectations, but laughed out loud quite a few times.

I am glad I am easily entertained. I liked it, had some good laugh out loud scenes for me. It is a Naked Gun movie, it is gonna be dumb.