#9 – The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear

IMDB Rating: 6.8
Released – 1991
Director – David Zucker
Length – 1hr 25m
Top Cast – Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley & George Kennedy

I couldn’t resist and the best I could manage was to delay seeing it last night and instead save it for a Sunday morning instead.

I think I laughed more during the first film but this still had the same silly humour of the first and some great scenes.   There wasn’t too many repeated gags, if any in fact, so it wasn’t as bad as most sequels can be in just rehashing the same material but with a slightly different cast.

I can comfortably see this being a series I’ll continue to watch repeatedly.

I know you…
The only one was the actor, Richard Griffiths, who played Dr Meinheimer, and the imposter, but after trawling through his IMDB it appears I must only know him from his death being in the news in 2013.

Highlight
The death scene yet again.   I sort of saw it coming after seeing a news report about the escaped animals a few minutes before but it still made me crack up.

7/10 

#7 – The Naked Gun: From The Files of Police Squad!

IMDB Rating: 7.6 (Top 5000)
Released – 1988
Director – David Zucker
Length – 1hr 25m
Top Cast – Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, O.J Simpson

There’s a lyric from a Savage Garden song that sums up how I felt about this film before I started.  ‘I knew I loved you before I met you….’ as I’d recently watched Airplane! for the first time at the end of the year so I had a good feeling that this would be perfect for me as well.  It was.

I need to find more films like this, especially if there is still a director somewhere making them, as it had me laughing the whole way through.  Upon finishing the film I ventured straight onto Youtube to watch another sequence yet again and it’s only my need to do some shopping that’s preventing me from watching even more.

The only downside to this, and it didn’t stop me enjoying it at the time, was that I once again had a case of Family  Guy getting there first for me with the opening scene of Frank attacking the terrorists and then riding around in his police car with the focus on the police siren.    I still cracked up but it was just frustrating for me again to think that because I’ve been so crap in the past about watching films that I’ve seen parodies before the actual original film itself.

This will definitely be a comedy I’ll be coming back to many times and I’m already looking forward to watching the next two films although I might have to talk myself into saving them for the next two Saturday mornings instead.  Laughter is a great way to start any day.

I know you…
I’ve probably seen him in something else as well but I know Ludwig purely from the poster and some images from Fantasy Island.  Ricardo Montalban.

Highlight
Frank investigating Ludwig’s office for prolonged laughs but the death scene at the end of the film had me in tears.

8/10