Special Report: The Naked Gun (2025)

We knew it would happen and here it is! It's the return of our short-lived ZAZ show, From the Files of Police Squad (In Color), where Mike White, Mark Begley, and Chris Stachiw discuss the 2025 reboot of The Naked Gun franchise with... The Naked Gun! The film stars Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin Jr. and Paul Walter Hauser as Ed Hocken Jr., with Pamela Anderson along as the love interest, Beth Davenport—an author of true crime novels based on fictional stories that she makes up.

The film reunites the powerhouse trio behind Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022)—Dan Gregor, Doug Mand, and Akiva Schaffer—who do a great job channeling the ZAZ flavor of comedy.

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Speaker 2 (00:13):
To the oh geez, folks, it's showtime.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
People pay good money to see this movie. When they
go out to a theater.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
They want clod sodas, popcorn, and no monsters in the
projection Booth.

Speaker 4 (00:31):
Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.

Speaker 5 (00:34):
Got it off.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Once you kill am half for revenge, there's no going back.
A voice in your head saying over and over that
was awesome.

Speaker 4 (01:06):
Who are you driven?

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Detective Frank Dreven?

Speaker 4 (01:11):
Thanks?

Speaker 3 (01:13):
At least one has always been the elite of the elite. Hi,
Daddy to me, Frank Junior, love you, Hey, dad boy?

Speaker 4 (01:20):
Do I miss you? And you?

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Frank are the best of the best.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
In the bathroom.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
I need this woman immediately.

Speaker 4 (01:32):
They're the live man.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
Please Christmas, I'm going to ruin another suit.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Overhear the tenant. I think someone murdered my brother.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Please take a share, Thank you. I'll find them this
is what I do, says you served twenty years for
man's laughter.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
You mean manslaughter?

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Must have been quite a joke.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
They're going to shut down police squad if you do
not solve this case.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
Do this by the book?

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Why who's going to arrest me?

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Other cops?

Speaker 5 (02:15):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Serious?

Speaker 4 (02:17):
Is he serious?

Speaker 5 (02:21):
It seems this is driving might be more of a
problem than we saw.

Speaker 4 (02:24):
And what did you keep an eye on him? I'm
in success.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
Rest assured. I won't stop until I've found justice.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
What do you want, little one?

Speaker 3 (02:47):
You're ass nobody messes with. Please squad, We've upgraded your
car with the most advanced crime fighting tech. Drive forward,

(03:08):
very smooth o. This place is falling apart.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
Comrades of comedy. Citizens of cinema, Today we march not
upon Rome, but upon the silver screen, to bear witness
to the glorious rebirth of an empire of absurdity. For years,
the sacred legacy of Frank Dreben lay in the archives,
a relic of slapstick past. But now under the bold
banner of Naked Gun twenty twenty five, it returns faster, sharper,

(03:42):
and more delirious than ever. We reject the tyranny of seriousness.
We crush the dictatorship of dullness. In its place, we
raise the banner of pretfalls, wordplay and sight gag, so
powerful they shall echo across the ages. Let the weak
hearted critics tremble, let the humorless flea. The people demand chaos,
banana peals and exploding cufflinks, and we shall deliver them

(04:06):
with the relentless force of one thousand punchlines. Comedy Forever,
Dreven Forever, Viva Naked Gun. Yeah, I'm Mike White and
welcome to from the files Police Squad in Color, and
I am joined, of course by mister Christashue.

Speaker 4 (04:22):
Wow, Mike, that was horrifying and informative at the same time.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
That was amazing.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Actually pretty proud of myself just coming up with that.
Off the exploding cufflink as it were. Yeah, no notes,
no nothing, nothing. Also with us as mister Mark Begley UCLA,
I see it every day.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
You can't fight city Hall Mark. I know it's a
big building.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Yes, we're back, rejoining the discussion of zucker Abram zucker fills,
specifically those around the Police Squad series and coming back
with it. Co had Gun twenty twenty five aka Naked
Gun four. I think I'm the only person that calls
it naked Gun for otherwise it gets very confusing. Or
you could call it the naked Gun, which I think

(05:06):
it is actually the naked Gun.

Speaker 4 (05:08):
It is title like the Suicide Squad.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yes, like the sus guys were the other ones the
naked guns as well?

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Oh okay, yeah, I thought that was the distinction. And
then I looked and I'm like, oh no, it.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
Was no for all that it was the naked Gun
from the files of police's police Squad, the Naked Gun
two and a half, and then Naked Gun thirty three
and a.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
Third, And there was no joke name that they're going for,
even though apparently in the past there were joke names
for this, including naked Gun for Nordberg. Did it one
little joke? Just one little nod there to oh J Simpson.
That was pretty good.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
I'm glad they stuck with just the one joke.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
They had been talking about doing this film for a while,
apparently even having a made for TV version of it,
which would have been interesting where it was listening Nielsen
kind of passing the torch over to somebody else. I
don't think it would have been Liam Neeson at the time.
There were talks about also in the past having Ed Helms,

(06:13):
who we were just talking about recently. Right, that would
not have worked. No, you need somebody very serious in
a role like this.

Speaker 4 (06:20):
I think that this is one of the smartest things
about this movie is the casting of Liam Nathan because
he's been Pamela Anderson are really good together and they
might be fucking in real life. I actually think they are.
I think they marry at.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
Something definitely happened on set.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
Natasha Richardson's sister has something to say about that screams
the headlines. Who gives a shit?

Speaker 4 (06:42):
Hey, they're happy, That's all that matters.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
Natasha Richardson ate it like twenty years ago.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
I thought he had their blessing. That's what I've been reading.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
What does any tummy Lee's blessing too?

Speaker 2 (06:53):
Hey, yeah, he's gonna get dalnked with his big Wayne
long here.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
Okay, by the way, we will spoiling things, as if
you can spoil a movie like this, but that also
means talking about a lot of the punchlines and some
of the things that you are actually paying money to
go to the theater to see. Though I will admit,
when I saw this at the theater yesterday, it was
one of those like twenty five seaters and there were

(07:18):
maybe like six people in there. So I don't think
this is going to be at the theater too much longer.
I imagine this will be probably streaming by the time
this episode comes out.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
My little insular world of Twitter, everybody was going crazy
about it, so I thought it was doing Gangbusters and
dumb comedies back and all that crap. I don't know,
maybe it isn't.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
Oh no, I actually had a fair amount of people
that told me that they went and saw this movie
in theaters. I don't know. The movie seemed to do
rather well. It seemed to be seemed to have made
its money back already, so I think we're like two
weeks removed from the movie coming out.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
There's that massive drop off, even just on the second week.
It's almost rare for a movie to make as much,
if not more, the second week. It just right down
the cliff.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
And it's not a Marvel movie. I think the only
way additional people are going to go see a movie
like this is word of mouth, not like Curb Appeals.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
Not a Marvel movie though, Wolverine Reunion here with Danny
Houston and Kevin Durant the Blob and.

Speaker 4 (08:22):
Who's playing like William Striker.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
The Striker, Yes, yeah, Striker Striker Striker aka Sally Decker.
I have a few complaints about this movie. One of
those complaints is Danny Houston and Liam Neeson speaking to
each other. It sounds like it's the same person talking
to themselves.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
Okay, I wasn't the only one who's saying what line?

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Now, Danny Houston really starting to sound a lot like
his dad, And I think that if he wanted to,
if you wanted to just push just a little bit,
he could do the John Houston voice impeccably.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
Oh, I'm sure he does. He probably does it all
the time.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
I'm sure like he's voiced his character his dad in
different things like documentaries or something. Yeah, he does a
great job. And dam Houston fucking hilarious guy and Liam
Neeson fucking hilarious guy. And I love that they use
Nissan's very cold, calculating, taken type persona so much of
this time, where it's like growling out these lines and

(09:18):
having the voiceover was very smart as well. Of course,
we know that Frank Drubbitt had a voiceover, so given
it to Liam Neeson here I thought was very smart.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
I enjoyed it. I guess in that insular world I
live in, it got a little over hyped, so I
was like, oooh, joke him second. And it wasn't as
damn packed as the Naked Gun movies where you watch
it five times because you've missed nineteen different things going on.
It's not quite like that, And I don't think there

(09:47):
were early as many or I didn't notice a lot
of that background foreground. Something serious was happening in the foreground.
There was a joke going on in the background that
didn't seem to be happening. Not that they need to
follow the blueprint of those movies or of Zaz movies
to a t which I'm sure they didn't want to do,

(10:09):
but it seemed a lot tamer as far as gags
a second to me, and I didn't know if that
was just me missing everything or if that's how the
movie was.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
You didn't miss anything. It is very much one layer
of jokes, the closest they get to multi in the
multiple layers. They really hand you what's happening on that
second layer, like I think of when they're walking through
police squad after cch Pounder.

Speaker 4 (10:37):
Yells it's a no day at police squad.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
And then they cut to a guy getting his mugshot
taken and there's like a wind machine and the photographers
is very much a fashion photographer. And then we have
Frank and Ed Paul walter Hauser. I guess it's the
summer of Paul walter Hauser between this and Fantastic Four
coming out within a few weeks, and them walking and

(11:01):
talking and I'm like, okay, yeah, that was very obvious
what that joke was. There's not a lot of stuff
going on in the background. I was definitely paying attention
to that, trying to be like, okay, is there something
funny else other than what's happening here? And yeah, the
jokes per second, jokes per minute, jokes per maybe five minutes.
There were a few times, especially at the beginning, where

(11:22):
I was laughing out loud quite a bit. I loved
little things like him putting on the rubber glove and
then reaching in with the hand without the glove into
the crashed car. Some of the site gags and everything,
but yeah, it felt like it was one layer of
jokes happening at all times, which is.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
Maybe better for a modern audience. I hate to say,
do you have to direct everything to modern audience that
can't keep up with stuff? But I felt like, okay,
I don't have im. I don't want to have to
pay attention to every little corner of the screen and
feel dumb for missing something because I tune in knowing
we're going to talk about it. It is a little

(11:59):
bit off than just watching it for enjoyments. I did
notice the beaver though, because that was very subtle to
put a pin on it.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
I felt that there was a lot more absurdist stuff,
like when Frank goes to the club that Danny Houston
owns or sorry, it's more the event that he's doing,
and there are all those posters like delivery and this
and that, and then pumpkins, like him standing in a
field with a bunch of pumpkins. It's like, okay, yeah,

(12:27):
that was funny, just absurd kind of stuff. And I
was expecting a little bit more out of the screenwriters
for this because I really liked the Chippindale movie that
they did together Dan Gregor and Doug Manned. I'm not
that familiar with the Kiva Schaeffer though, and I don't
know if.

Speaker 4 (12:45):
Part of the Lonely Island.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
Oh that's right, thank you.

Speaker 4 (12:48):
Well, he's the guy in the Lonely Island with the
facial hair. Is essentially the best way of putting in.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
I know. I saw pop Star Never Stop, Never Stopping,
and of course I've seen through it down the Ground
though I really feel that that skit kind of takes
a shit at the end when they get to the
Hollywood Phonies part. But okay, yeah, he's got some good
comedy chops.

Speaker 4 (13:08):
I'm on a boat.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
And then of course he also directed Chippendale Rescue Rangers,
Got the whole gang back here again? No Andy Samdberg though, No,
but I meant as far as that Rescue Rangers thing.

Speaker 4 (13:19):
I enjoyed this movie a fair amount. I think it's
a pretty worthy successor to what this franchise could be.
I think it's also a rather interesting entry into the
franchise given what it has to be now, given the
environment that this movie has come out into, because there's
parts of this movie that are aping action movies that

(13:42):
were not. This movie apes action movies at times which
Naked Gun didn't really do back in the day, and
this is existing in a post John Wick, post taked world.
That's the thing that I feel like is even more
on the nose, and even funnier is putting Liam Neeson
in this movie, given that he is actually an action star.

(14:05):
Leslie Nielsen was just an actor, but he was not
an action star, and he wasn't an action actor, and
they didn't expect that of him in the Naked Gun movies.
But in this it's almost like you expected Part and
Parcel with Liam Neeson being cast in the movie, and that,
for me is I think one of the smartest things
about this movie is it does understand the world that

(14:27):
it exists within now and it's not fighting it. It's
not trying to be it's not trying to exist in
another time and place. This isn't Naked Gun movie made
in twenty twenty five, for good and for bad in
a lot of ways, like the main villain being essentially
an Elon Musk type like a little bit on the nose,
like a little on the nose, but not in a
bad way. Like I almost think like there's no other

(14:49):
way to make this movie other than to address it
head on.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
That was my one complaint. I assumed since he one
of his big things as electric cars, that this isn't
Elon Musk grip, but he's not weird enough. I wanted
him to be weird. Once I sussed that out, I'm like, oh,
electric car guy, Okay, Elon Musk, he should have been
an absolute weird I maybe.

Speaker 4 (15:13):
He does like the Black Eyed peas.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
His plot, his world domination plot should have been more bizarre,
not just plot device. It's making people regress to a
prehistoric rage or whatever. It should have been really fucking weird.
Let's make this guy weird, not just that he's handing

(15:35):
his balls or whatever he's doing with that machine, Like,
make him really fucking weird.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
That's based off of some of that weirdo bro shit.
Isn't it like that men are becoming too feminized and
the way to not do that is to put like
a red light on your ballsack or some shit like
I've heard that in those like fucking Alex Jones joke.
Fair Yeah, the MANI sphered Jesus fucking Christ.

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Speaker 2 (16:22):
It just made me think of that guy that keeps
replenishing his blood or whatever to stay or he's like,
I think he has transfusions with his young son and
he's supposed to. I do not know what his name
is there anything, but they always show pictures of him.
Can you believe this man is forty seven? And I'm like,
he looks worse than I do, and I'm fifty six.
What are you talking about? It's like a fucking corpse.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
I have to admit that I was very confused during
the scene where they're showing Frank his electric car. The gift,
I guess you can just get gifts from billionaires gifting
to the police department, which is absolutely especially in twenty
twenty five. The guy who shows him what his car
looks like, who's basically the I can't remember. I want

(17:05):
to say ted, but that's not right. But anyway, honestly,
when I saw him in the trailers, I thought he
was Corey Feldman. Chase Stephen Anderson, You, sir, can be
in the Corey Feldman story because you can pull that
look off. So maybe think about doing that, because even
as I'm watching it in the theater, I'm like, holy fuck,

(17:26):
does he look like Corey Feldman?

Speaker 4 (17:28):
It is ted by the way, Oh okay good in
the first movie, Yeah, yeah he does. He does a
Feldman esque the.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
Lab tech guy. Is that who we're talking about here?

Speaker 5 (17:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (17:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
I wanted a little more from him, a little more
weirdness too, because that guy was always weird.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
Oh yeah, yeah, especially when they would come in they'd
be talking with children and stuff like.

Speaker 4 (17:46):
Why don't you run along now, Katie?

Speaker 5 (17:48):
And next week I'll show you why women can't play
professional football.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
Yeah, the jokes felt kind of aimed. They didn't feel
really like, oh wow, you just went there. Wow.

Speaker 4 (17:59):
It goes there a couple times, but it doesn't go
there enough. There are gags that go on for way
too long, and there are gags that I wish they
would mine a little bit more. And I'm sure that
there is an version of this movie where there's alternate
takes of scenes. There may not be a whole plethora
of deleted scenes, but there definitely are alternate takes of scenes.

(18:21):
There have to be.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
Yeah, the really only part that was gag a second
was that opening in the bank where you have multiple
gun gags, and I loved the party when he picked
up the guy to us as a shield and it
was an obvious dummy that was. That was actually probably
my biggest laugh of the whole movie. Honestly, it was
more chuckles and ahahas throughout.

Speaker 4 (18:43):
I didn't It.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
Wasn't laugh a second for me, I guess is my
overall feeling on it, and not that all of the
naked gun movies are, but it feels like there is
a little bit more to go back to, and this one,
I don't know how much I'm going to be going
back to it.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
That's the thing that we were talking about where who's
in on the joke, right, It's that whole Frank Drebin
is a complete moron and walks through the world with
no one really questioning it, and everyone once in a
while you'll get somebody who questions it, even like Nancy
Marshaan was just like would rollerrize at times. But here

(19:22):
there are times where he gets away with that where
he just says stupid stuff and nobody calls him on it.
But then there are other times where they do call
him on it, like when he comes in and he
says to bust A rhymes twenty years for man's laughter.
That must have been one hell of a joke. And
then he's like, you mean manslaughter. He's like, oh yeah,
and then puts the file down. I'm like, no, don't

(19:44):
call him on it, just let it go, like and
then take that and make it worse. Do one more
on top of that.

Speaker 4 (19:51):
Yeah. I like the whole bit.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
Of the montage of the body cam stuff or the
police camp, though they had way too many angles for
that footage.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
Felt let's not cinema sens this movie. I think that
every time that there is footage, Oh man, who was
directing this thing? Who was directing all that footage?

Speaker 4 (20:10):
Gay?

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Gamera two, Gamera three?

Speaker 1 (20:12):
I guess when it comes to the oh they went
their thing, the first choke that comes to my mind
is when he goes into the bar, the Silver Tiger
or the Bengal Club or whatever that is, and there's
that bartender that he talks to.

Speaker 4 (20:25):
Played by Cody Rhodes, the wrestler of all people, does
a great job. I felt he's talented. It's just random.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
You don't remember me, do you should?

Speaker 1 (20:36):
I my brother?

Speaker 4 (20:37):
You shot him in the name of justice.

Speaker 3 (20:40):
I could literally be thousands of people shot him in
the back as he ran away, hundreds unarmed, at least fifty.

Speaker 4 (20:45):
He was white.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
So you're Tony Royland's brother.

Speaker 4 (20:49):
That was pretty good.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
That was pretty good. I'm gouda use a little bit
more of that commentary throughout the surprise.

Speaker 4 (20:56):
They don't, But at the same time, I'm glad they
didn't because I don't know. I don't know if I
needed it. In My Naked Gun.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
Movie they are playing cops. The Baganda copaganda in twenty
twenty five doesn't really fly. So they did it in gosh,
I can't remember. I think it was one of the
movies eating the People and like just randomly beating people
of color in one of the films.

Speaker 4 (21:21):
Just because that's what the cops do.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
And they did it back in the late eighties early
nineties because of the Rodney King stuff, so they could
have done it here.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
One joke I felt went way too long was the
crab people joke when.

Speaker 5 (21:35):
The founding fathers created this country. They sat in a
room like this, filled with men like us. I'm birthed
an empire the USA.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
Yes, that's right.

Speaker 5 (21:48):
But as years went by, other people want to get
into that room.

Speaker 4 (21:53):
Fish people what fish people? Gills on their necks. I
don't like mermen and mer women mermaids.

Speaker 5 (22:00):
Right, No, stop not fish people. Ungrateful people, people that
did not earn their seat at the table.

Speaker 1 (22:09):
People not built with the men in this run crab hans.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
They had crab hands instead of fingers.

Speaker 5 (22:16):
Stop, I know what I mean, So just let me
do the thing.

Speaker 4 (22:20):
This is a crab hand.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
I've met him.

Speaker 4 (22:22):
Put the phone away. That was one of my favorite
scenes in the movie.

Speaker 1 (22:26):
I think had they gone farther with it and had
everyone on that board believing in crab people or something,
I thought that would have been a little bit better.
But instead it was just those two guys going back
and forth and just like drop it, just drop it,
come on, let's go. Just felt like it lasted like
two beats too long.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
I always attribute it to Austin powers, where you go
you just keep going until it's not funny anymore, and
then it comes back around to being absurd and then
it's funny again. And that's another thing that I felt
was missing from this, but wasn't on ahad that it
was missing from this, because that does get old. I

(23:03):
didn't really feel it for this, Like I'm sitting here
listening to you on my Crab people joke, what does
he talk like? I totally forgot about it. But yeah,
would it have been more memorable to me if it
had been done ad nauseum or come back up later
in the movie or something.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
It does come back one more time. Yeah, at the
very end when weird Al and I hope that was
part of the version that you saw, because I know
sometimes credits get cut off. But at the very end,
weird Al comes back and he's playing at the Giggle
Bunker room and it's just him with a whole bunch
of empty tables and he's like, hello, anybody, crazy billionaires,

(23:42):
crab people.

Speaker 4 (23:43):
I'm glad that weird Ow was in the movie again.
Got to keep that street, keep that streak going.

Speaker 1 (23:48):
And yeah, I kind of wish that board of directors
would have been either this guy is crazy or we
are way more evil than he is, even just to
really put that whole bunch of rich white people, even
though they weren't all white people, a bunch of rich
older people all on the board at the same time.
Sometimes Kevin Duran gives like little looks where he's like,

(24:09):
I'm not really sure about this guy, but never really
comes back.

Speaker 4 (24:14):
Speaking of Austin Powers, they copp directly from Austin Powers
with the dog gag where it looks like they're having
sex with his dog.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
Yeah, that whole kitchen scene. I was like, this was done.
And whichever one of those with Heather Graham and him
in the tent.

Speaker 4 (24:30):
They do it twice in that movie.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
Too, like the fruit stuff with him and Vanessa.

Speaker 4 (24:35):
Yeah, yeah, that's right.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
Or sorry, food stuff, it's not just fruit.

Speaker 4 (24:39):
The scene with the snowman, which is effectively the naked
gun from the first movie, there's that, Like it's essentially
like a music video.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yeah, it's that montage. Something tells me I'm into something good.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
Yeah, Herman's Hermits.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
Yeah, it's like a mini movie.

Speaker 4 (24:55):
I feel like if they had given the movie the
rest of that energy, Like I enjoyed this movie immensely.
I think I probably maybe even enjoyed it more than
both of y'all. I will say though, like I think
if the movie to Mike's point and marks point as well,
I think if the movie had been more absurd, I
think it would have checked more boxes for me. And

(25:16):
I think it just it goes there. But having rewatched
all three of the original Naked Gun movies to prepare
for this episode, like they are a little bit more absurd.
It's not like, it's not like terribly So I'm not
saying that this movie is like, this is the most
straightforward comedy I've ever seen, but like, there are parts
of this movie that don't go far enough, and there

(25:37):
are parts of this movie that like hold like really
hold back, and I don't know why. I guess is
it like And that's the other thing I guess, did
this movie need to be our? Is that what it is?
In this day and age? Did this movie have to
be ours? R?

Speaker 1 (25:51):
It's PG thirteen, Okay, So you're asking should we have
gone farther? Should? I mean, where were the mare boobs?
Come on? No boobs in this movie.

Speaker 4 (26:01):
I don't know if I want to see a bear,
I don't know if I want to see a bear's boobs.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
They have a whole line of them. It's usually about
eight or so many teats.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
None of the Naked Gun films were any higher than
a PG thirteen. I'm sure, so they're keeping it with that.

Speaker 4 (26:15):
But if that need to be something that they kept to,
is my point.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
You want dumb teen boys going to see your movie.
So are boys that appreciate dumb humor or girls teens
that appreciate dumb humor going to your movie? Maybe those
teens don't exist. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
From what I hear. The new generation is afraid of sex,
so I guess no, no bear boobs for them. Then
Bam Anderson.

Speaker 4 (26:38):
Is really good in this movie.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
She is amazing. Her scat scene is speaking of rated R,
but that is fucking amazing. I saw a clip on
Instagram the other day where they weren't cutting between her
and what Liam Neeson was up to, and it was
just her doing the scatting. It was fucking amazing. I
couldn't It was before I saw the movie, and I'm

(27:00):
just like, what the hell is this? This is great.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
That was a perfect little naked gun police squad esque
interlude there. That ridiculousness. It actually made me think of
that was it the last episode or one of the
last episodes of the show when he's up performing and
is not nearly as funny as this scene in that film.
But I was looking for anything to call back to
the show or to the movies. They don't do a.

Speaker 4 (27:24):
Ton of it.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
The self driving car worked because of the way they
would always shoot the driving scenes in Police Squad and
Naked Gun.

Speaker 4 (27:35):
So I thought that was nice.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
That was a nice touch, and since it's topical and
now it seemed to work. Okay, he hits a biker,
I'm sure that was done in one of the movies
or the show.

Speaker 4 (27:46):
He hits a person multiple to.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
No parking, though no trouble parking.

Speaker 1 (27:51):
I don't recall no hitting of garbage cans. Yeah, he
does go through that police line, but that was one
of the things where one of the policemen actually reacts,
And like, should he have reacted or should he have
just taken that as a normal thing.

Speaker 4 (28:04):
I don't like.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
And I know I talked about this on those podcasts
about the movies and stuff when people would make the
face you just got to let it go. And you
mentioned it earlier in regard to a scene in this film,
just like, just let it slide, don't acknowledge it. The
joke is for us. It should be, And I think
of Airplane when I think of that, where the joke

(28:25):
is for us and we don't get all those clients.

Speaker 4 (28:28):
I'll get a few.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
I shouldn't say that, but just let the joke go.
The character doesn't need to respond to the stupid comment.

Speaker 1 (28:35):
Yeah, you get a few of those fourth wall breaks too,
which I always appreciated, like when Ted Striker would look
at the camera and be like, what do would you do?
Kind of thing, And we get a few of those
where Reben will break that fourth wall and look straight
at us and talk to us as the audience, And
even especially at the end when the whole we do

(28:56):
the freeze frame gag a little bit differently than we've
seen it done before, but him actually seeing the camera
and coming and approaching us, I thought was a good gag,
and I was glad that they carried through on the
freeze frame thing.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
When they did a little bit of a vacation gag
the film one of the films that we talked about
recently were you know in that film they put a
pin on that this is a sequel to a beloved franchise,
and but this one's going to be very different, and I.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
Want to be the same as you, daddy, But.

Speaker 4 (29:28):
The new one, the naked gun, the new one.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
They do the same thing here.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
I like the fight that he has in Club Bengal
with all the computer guys behind the scenes, and especially
when he's taking numbers. They've got the little ticker tape
thing and he just keeps punching people out, or when
he rips the guy's hands or arms off of him
and starts smacking him with Those were pretty good and
I like just seeing you know what a bad hass

(29:52):
you hired Liam Neeson. Let's use him for this way.

Speaker 4 (29:56):
I think one of my favorite jokes in the movie
is almost it's a callback to another joke from National
Lampoon's Loaded Weapons. So in that movie, there's a scene
where they go looking for the Emilio Estevez character and
they think they find his trailer on the beach, and
so the bad guys light it up and then it

(30:17):
turns out it's just I believe it's supposed to be
John McClain, but it is Bruce Willis, and he's just like, ah, wrong, yeah, wrong, trailer. Sorry,
it's great, and like you have Bruce Willis in the
movie for all of like thirty seconds. You make the
most of it and it really works. I think for me,
one of my favorite gags in this entire movie is
at the end when all of a sudden, you just

(30:38):
stop hearing Liam Neeson's voice and it's just Dave Bautista.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
I saw him in the credits, and I'm like, when
it is Dave Bautista gonna show up? Is he one
of the Hinchmen? What's going on here? And then oh, okay, having.

Speaker 4 (30:49):
Him show up as just Frank Dreben because Liam Neeson
is apparently in the bathroom. Liam Neeson the actor is
in the bathroom, is I think for me one of
the funniest gags in the entire movie.

Speaker 1 (31:01):
I like that a lot. I also like c. H.
Pounder with her sleeping husband, like where she's like, get
me dribbon, and then like he's in the bedroom and
just like he has this very important he sent tomorrow
and he's going to get passed over by this person
again even though he trained him. And I'm like, that's
really good. I like this whole thing. And then that

(31:22):
they show up with the sleep mask on still and
then the great news at the very end, like it's
one of those oh we found gold and oil and
your stocks went up kind of thing. It's oh when
you got the promotion.

Speaker 4 (31:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
Those are the things I like the most, are like
the continuous jokes where we just go back to that
well time and again. It's just like, give us a
whole bunch of those types of things, like the whole
thing with the coffee. I love the coffee bit.

Speaker 5 (31:51):
Though.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
With that, I kept thinking of fucking Beetlejuice and the
Willem Dafoe character, that whole thing of that weird subplot
in Beetle Juice Juice, Beetlejuice of like the cop movie
inside of there.

Speaker 4 (32:04):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
I'm like, oh yeah, I just saw that recently.

Speaker 5 (32:08):
Wolf Jackson after Life Prime Units.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
Let me do a world step actor, not just any actor.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
I've done it all for six movies.

Speaker 4 (32:20):
And a reboot.

Speaker 3 (32:22):
I became Frank hardballer during my own stunts was non negotiable.

Speaker 4 (32:27):
You know why authenticity correct.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
A vice cop doesn't get to a purp store and
then call for.

Speaker 3 (32:33):
Some ham bone stuntman to break it down, neither did I.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
You gotta keep it meal. I completely forgot about that movie.

Speaker 4 (32:42):
Speaking of legacy sequels, I think this was much more
successful than Beetlejuice.

Speaker 1 (32:47):
Beetlejuice and this is probably up there with like an
axule F for.

Speaker 4 (32:51):
Me, I would agree.

Speaker 2 (32:52):
Yeah, it didn't have twenty lot threads to get to
weave through.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
Yeah. If anything, they kept it pretty straightforward with this
whole mystery of the dead brother and the sister trying
to help, and even throwing in the things like her
true crime novels based on stories that she makes up.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
Yeah, that was a good little just fiction.

Speaker 4 (33:14):
What about Liam Neeson and his tvo.

Speaker 3 (33:16):
That's my TiVo that I liked you yesterday so that
you could watch season one A Buffy so that you
could start getting my references. I know that, Frank and
I specifically told you not to plug it into the internet.
Oh oh, that's an Ethernet chord going for my tvo
directly into your router where the internet comes from.

Speaker 2 (33:36):
I was just trying to plug it into the electricity.

Speaker 3 (33:37):
Now they might be expired. That means gone, no musical special,
no Xander, no Spike, no Cordelia Tays, no Daniel Osborne,
no Willow meets her double ganger. Episode nothing.

Speaker 5 (33:52):
Sorry, I didn't know they were.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
What was the other thing that he yeah, yeah, the
Miranda right.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
Oh yeah, the city.

Speaker 4 (33:59):
Yeah, I love that.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
No, Carrie Wrights. It took me a second for me
to get what he was doing.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
Yeah, I'm like, what is he talking about? My wife
and daughter have been going through that series and that
is probably the only reason I recognize the names. Finally
at the end and Samantha's.

Speaker 1 (34:17):
A orr yeah, because as soon as he said Carrie
writes and like what and then he had to get
to like the Cynthia Nixon character before I was like,
oh now I got it.

Speaker 4 (34:25):
I really I also really like Kevin Durand in This
Isn't my normal car, This Isn't the way I normally
fall asleep. There are some really funny moments in this movie,
like I would put this movie above I Honestly, I
think I might put this movie above the Third Naked Gun,
and I think it's as good as the Second Naked Gun,
even though I do think the Second Naked Gun in

(34:48):
a lot of ways is almost as good as the
first one, because the second one has some of my
favorite gags, like I've been swimming in raw sewage all day.
I love it. I love it. I love it that
like like that's for me. Like the second movie has
a lot of like follow through gags that the first
movie doesn't have. The second movie has those, like the
gag with the zoo and the animals and the lion

(35:11):
getting Robert Goulay at the end of the movie, and
that's like halfway through the movie. They introduced that like
reoccurring bit. Like, I think this movie is as good
as the Second Naked Gun. I think this movie. I
think it's a good starting place too, for the future
of a franchise, which is weird to say, because I
can't imagine they're gonna just do one of these movies
at this point.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
I hope that they do more. And yeah, I hope,
if anything, they do try to pick up on that
let's do multiple layers of comedy thing. We saw. It
wasn't just Ken Finkleman. It was some of the writers
from The Simpsons as well. We've seen that you can
do it. It doesn't have to be just as the
a Z thing. If you do it wrong, it looks
horrible and it's just a miserable experience. But at least

(35:55):
I will say they didn't do it wrong. They did
not do comedy wrong by this, like things like epic movie.
I was thinking of gags like him coming in and
stepping in the blood and seeing the knife that says
pick me up and.

Speaker 4 (36:10):
Sad is one of my favorite. Also gags in the
whole I did it right.

Speaker 1 (36:16):
And then when he picks up the corpse and it
hits the ceiling fan and he's just there with the
headless corpse when the cops come in and does flips
out the window. I thought that was great. I was like, yeah,
this is the naked gun that I know.

Speaker 4 (36:30):
There's a little textas switch in this movie, which I appreciate.
I honestly think that this movie really shines when they
just let Liam Neeson talk and be fucking weird, like
when he's talking to Kevin durand in that scene where
they're trying to get the confession out of me, he's like,
you're gonna be a pretty boy in prison, Like what
the fuck are you talking about? Like, and it just
keeps going, and it just keeps going, And I don't

(36:51):
think there's not enough of that in the movie. Like
I think in a lot of ways the movie also
plays it safe in a way that. I don't think
if there's a second I don't think the second one
will play it as safe as his first one. But
I think this first one had to play it safe
because again, like they're I think we already alluded to it.
They are trying to get as many people in the
door as possible, like normal people, people that wouldn't be

(37:13):
going out of their way to watch movies or going
to see this kind of movie in theaters. I'm like,
I do miss going to see this kind of movie
in theaters because there's something that we said for like
this movie in a theater, shared experience, everybody laughing and
having a good time, Like this is the lost experience
in this day and age.

Speaker 1 (37:31):
I'm trying to think the last comedy I saw in
the theater, and it takes a lot. They definitely do
a very solid job with this. There are moments to
me of absolute brilliance, like when he's trapped in the
electric car and he busts out the windshield and he
runs into the clown with the balloons, and then the

(37:53):
guys carrying the bees, and then the guys carrying a
windshield that just pops right back into place. I love it.
I think I agree with you Mark that the villain
should have been a little bit more, that it should
have been a little bit crazier when it comes to that,
more eccentric, like you know, yes, eccentric definitely.

Speaker 4 (38:12):
I saw his face.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
I don't know that I knew any Houston was in
this before I watched it, And when I saw him,
I thought, Oh, he's going to be that guy. He's
been playing this guy for a while. I mean, he
basically plays this in a much smaller role in Game
Night and Big Wealthy, and he's probably weirder in that
actually having fight club in his mansion, but it's almost typecasting.

(38:37):
And then the reference to Musk, I thought, oh, he's
going to be weird, and they never got super weird
with him, and for me personally would have appreciated him
his ideas just being absolutely wacko, or show him stealing
everybody's ideas.

Speaker 1 (38:56):
There you go, yeah, yeah, here's a brand new thing
that I came up with, and just have it be
something that everyone already has. Here's a pet rock, or
here's a Rubik's cube or something like that. Maybe just
an inventor of really stupid gadget type of things.

Speaker 2 (39:12):
Yeah, or all the board people going. That was Bob's idea.
The plot device was Billy's idea talking about I.

Speaker 1 (39:21):
Love some of those stupid things too, like when he's
got the injury, which I don't really recall him getting
an injury, but when he gets an injury and goes
over to Pam Anderson's house and she pours the vodka
on it and then she proceeds to make an entire
bloody mary on his arm. Yeah, and then like has
the piece of celery and I'm just like, I want
to see her wrap the celery in the ace bandage

(39:42):
kind of thing and have him carrying that for the
rest of the movie. Yeah, there are some very funny
bets in here, and yeah, I feel that it is
good first entry and hopefully a new franchise. Though Liam
Neesen is ten years older than.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
He ain't getting any younger, Leslie Nielsen was, Yeah, he
doesn't look it.

Speaker 4 (40:01):
Though he doesn't look it.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
No, he looks great.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
Yeah, I said, don't pull cinema sins out earlier, but
I am going to do one because wouldn't Frank Dreben
Junior be like in his thirties If we're going canonically
with the last film when they have him years old
in that movie.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
Mark. If you looked at the IMDb trivia, the Source
of all knowledge, it says that it must have been others. Yes,
another Frank Dreben junior, of.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
Course, yes, from a previous fling.

Speaker 4 (40:29):
Did he have to be Frank Dreben junior, That's a question.
I'm curious. I'm asking y'all because I think he had
to be Frank Drebben in some capacity, either rebooted or
his son. But do you guys agree, like, did he
have to be for this to work? Or could he?
Could this have been a reboot?

Speaker 1 (40:45):
I think it could have been a reboot just as easily.
I think the whole thing of him being Frank Drebbin's
son and Paul Walter Hauser being Ed's son, I think
that makes sense.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
Yeah, it doesn't come into play though, except for a
couple of jokes for the obvious one of them all
kneeling in front of their dad's or mother's pictures in
that one scene where the only one O. J. Simpson
gag is But I was thinking the same thing when
I was watching it, because I had that stuck in
my head that the kid would actually only be thirty

(41:17):
or forty years old, that he could be a relative
different kind of relative, a nephew or a long lost
son or something. But they don't put too big a
point on him being They don't get into the exploits
of Frank Dreben in the movie you're doing what your
dad did and blah blah, your dad was a fucking idiot.

(41:38):
I think there might be too much outrage if he
wasn't Frank Dreben Junior.

Speaker 3 (41:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (41:44):
I don't know, Chris, that's a good question.

Speaker 1 (41:45):
I'm glad he didn't die, is hair. I'm glad he
didn't have the silver thing. Is that would I'd been
way too distracting and just not look good on Liam Leason.

Speaker 4 (41:56):
I don't think he's already a silver fox of at
it he does. I do love that the movie traffics
in a little bit of meta real world with Liam
Mason's fat wiener, which is a real thing in real life.
Liam Mason is well known for being well hung, and
I love that the movie traffics in that for no
reason other than because there are a group of people

(42:17):
that know that Liam Neeson has a big wiener that's
literally it. I don't know why else they'd be making
that joke for like what seems like quite an extended
period of time. They have that guy describing his penis
as a loaf of bread with a toupey on I think,
or with an afro is what he says.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
With an afro wig. I'm one of the people that
was not aware of this rumor, so I had no
idea and a big schlong no idea.

Speaker 1 (42:42):
Going to say another one of my favorite gags in
the movie is playing on It's Mission Impossible too. I
think right where they've got Dmitri or whatever his name
is in the hospital bed and they're showing them like,
here's what happened while you were out, And then they
do the same thing with Kevin Durant where it's the
we set this fake news report up and this is

(43:04):
a few days afterwards. And then yeah, I completely agree
with that whole speech that it gives about how Duran
gets out and becomes this Instagram person and he's the
guy who does this, but then there's another guy and
he ends up being so depressed, Like I love that
whole rant that he goes on. But then the multiple
did you get that boys kind of thing over and

(43:25):
over again with all the walls falling down. I thought
that was really good.

Speaker 4 (43:29):
Priscilla Presley shows up in the UFCC. Oh, she's a
cutaway when they're showing Liam Neeson's blurred penis. Oh wow,
she's cut one of the She's the cutaway that they
show of her watching the television and watching O's Okay.

Speaker 1 (43:45):
I noticed that they did the cutaway. I didn't recognize her.
I didn't get like the whole UFC thing very well,
Like if there are things in there that I'm supposed
to know about these fighters or whatever.

Speaker 4 (44:00):
There's some UFC like personalities are in the like are
on commentary, like Michael Bisping is one of the people
that's doing commentary, and he's a real fighter. I'm actually,
you know what, because I don't think either one of
y'all have watched it, but I have so I can
mention it. I'm glad that this wasn't a cameo fest,
because Happy Gilmore Too was like a massive cameo fest

(44:22):
to the point where it's like distracting. And I didn't
dislike that movie. I actually enjoyed it more than I
thought I was going to But the thing I disliked
about it was how much of it was just like
cameo after cameo, to the point where it's like, there's
it almost feels like the movie has nothing else going
for it at times other than just like, look at
all these people that Adam Sandler is friends with, And

(44:44):
I'm glad that this movie doesn't traffic in like cameo
after cameo, because that's not what this franchise was about.
We got the weird Al cameo in the first movie,
and then in the second movie, and then in the
third movie, but that was a reoccurring gag because of
the first movie, they had weird Al and they had
all these other people, like the longer the Naked Gun
movies went on. I think by the third one it

(45:05):
feels that way because they're at the Oscars, but it
feels like it's a little bit of a narrative cheat
because they're at the Oscars. But yeah, I was just
glad that there's like only a handful of cameos in
this movie, like Cody Rhodes or Priscilla Presley or Dave Batista.
But it's not just like every two seconds it's someone
famous that just I really love Naked Gun and I

(45:25):
wanted to be part.

Speaker 2 (45:26):
Of it, like nobody cares, Like Cody Rhodes passed me
by because I have no idea who that guy.

Speaker 4 (45:32):
Is, which is honestly fine, Like that's kind of the
way a cameo should work.

Speaker 2 (45:37):
Just the bartender who got his face smashed in, I
thought at first he was Casper dien Asprebendine. I knew
I was saying it wrong, and I wanted more from
that commentator. Who was when we see him, he's like,
my wife got all dressed up tonight. She knew I
was going out. Why was she get so dressed up?
I was really helped.

Speaker 1 (45:56):
Oh okay, now I see Priscilla Presley, all right. I
thought that was actually Catherine O'Hara when I saw it yesterday,
because it's got two seconds that she's on screen.

Speaker 2 (46:09):
Yeah, it's that's why I couldn't even remember. I'm like,
I know she's in there for a flash, but I
don't know the context.

Speaker 4 (46:15):
I also do find it amusing that the movie forces
Liam Neeson at one point to be non lethal, because
I'm not sure he ever kills anybody in this movie.
They hint at him killing people because they do that
whole like you locked up an entire McDonald's because they
wouldn't serve you freedom Friest, but he didn't kill those people.
In Naked Gun, Frank Dreben kills a couple people not intentionally,

(46:39):
like the guy who falls into the hot Dog vat,
like he swings at him and he misses. Carda Moldumond
kind of kills himself. But there is that scene in
Naked Gun where they're like, when I see five weirdos
trusted togas in a park stabbinger, guy, I shoot the past.
That was Shakespeare in the Park. They were great actors,
Like when they have MI like that, like it hints

(47:01):
at the fact that this guy is like really inept,
and we never get the sense in this movie that's
ever the case with Liam Neeson, which I think is
a welcome change, because again they have to traffic in
the fact that this guy in every other movie he's
in is actually an action stone and he's not just
pretending to be one, which I think again for me,
is one of the smartest bits of casting in the

(47:22):
movie is just casting a guy who does actually do this,
not casting against type. Because nobody would believe Leslie Nielsen
could actually do action oriented scenes.

Speaker 1 (47:32):
Yeah. I love the whole bit at the end with
all of the clips that are coming everywhere and the
one kid who loses his tooth and the tooth goes
into Frank's gun and then he shoots the tooth back
into his mouth. That's where I'm like, this is really
fucking clever, and there are some really good bits to this,
even though I felt like the ending went on for
a little too long, but it's just filled with a

(47:55):
whole bunch of great bits. Fucking owl coming back, that's perfect.
Love it. And to see that visual, to see the
visual of him holding onto an owl being carried through
the streets with the moon behind him, I was like,
this reminds me of Kung Fury, which is, to me
one of the best movies ever made period.

Speaker 4 (48:13):
End of sentence, And I agree, like, I think this
movie really shines when it leans further into the absurd.
I think it just was afraid of alienating the mainstream audience.

Speaker 1 (48:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (48:23):
I feel that way too, And I don't.

Speaker 4 (48:24):
Think the movie alienated the mainstream audience. Like I had
friends texting me asking me about this movie. If like
if I was going to see it, and then once
I saw it what I thought of it, and I
was like, this is fucking weird, Like I it's been
a while since that happened, and normally if it does happen,
it's not with something like this, which is just like again,
like ostensibly a comedy, but I don't know, Like there's

(48:47):
a level of polish to this movie that does make it.
We've talked a lot about the comedy of the movie,
but movies rather well shot. There's a lot of interesting lighting,
Like there's a lot of blue and red, like it
looks like it could be a John Wick movie.

Speaker 2 (49:02):
Yeah, I think that's what they were striving for.

Speaker 4 (49:04):
Yeah, and they nailed it. And I appreciate it because,
like again, in a post john Wick universe, where John
Wick is one of the most popular, if not the
most popular action movie out there, you could make a
movie that's a John Wick send up of its own right,
And I Naked Gun didn't have to do it. But
if Naked Gun's gonna exist in twenty twenty five, it's
almost impossible to not address it.

Speaker 2 (49:28):
I appreciated that it wasn't flat TV lighting.

Speaker 1 (49:32):
No, there's some great looking stuff. The bank robbery looks
like fucking from the dark.

Speaker 2 (49:36):
Knight returns playing with shadows even in his office when
she first shows up. It's a little nourish, and.

Speaker 1 (49:43):
The silhouette gag for the door or taking the chair
at the end, the whole fight around the fountain, when
we've got Dave Bautista that looks like a million bucks.
It really did do a great job shooting this. This
does look like a real movie. It doesn't look so
completely flat. Just keep going back to those fucking Friedberger
and Seltzer things. You guys mentioned Epic Movie and yeah,

(50:05):
those movies looked like they were made for five dollars.

Speaker 4 (50:10):
Well, they were written for five dollars too. That's the thing.
Those movies don't have any production value to them in
any substantive way. I think about Epic Movie or Disaster
Movie or the later scary movies, I'm like, who was
seeing these movies the same people that are being expected
to see these movies.

Speaker 1 (50:28):
I was the one seeing those movies, most of those
in the theater, which is I'm really a shite.

Speaker 4 (50:34):
I saw Smoking Aces and Epic Movie in a double feature. Wow,
yeah at the theater. Yeah, bull talk about a fate
worse than death.

Speaker 1 (50:42):
I think I saw every scary movie except for two,
which I'm so glad because that one was the worst
one for me in the theater.

Speaker 4 (50:50):
Scary Movie three is a good one. And I think
that this movie, this movie, like it looks more like
a Scary Movie three than it does a Naked Gun three.
Like this, this movie knows what came before it and
chooses to embrace it but also reject it. And that's
what's important when you make a movie like this is
you have to be willing to do your own thing,

(51:11):
but also people are gonna expect certain things from you
if you're making a naked gun movie.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
Against my better judgment, we should probably watch Spyhart sometime
and talk about it, just because that's a tie to
me between the zaz stuff and the Friedberg Seltzer stuff,
because that's I can't remember if it's Friedberg senior or
Seltzer senior. And that's also got weird l doing the
title song, and it's Scott Leslie Nielsen as your main character,

(51:37):
and it's like, what is this saying? It feels like
it was a say passing of the torch, because basically
they took the torch and just pissed on it and
put the fire out. For all of those Friedberg and
Seltzer movies, but it felt like, oh, yeah, here, I'll
set up my sons for or my son and his
asshole friend for success. One of these days, I'd love
to talk with those guys and just be like, what

(51:58):
is your fucking problem?

Speaker 4 (51:59):
What is your major malfunction? What about wrongfully accused?

Speaker 1 (52:03):
Oh boy, I've never seen that one either more.

Speaker 4 (52:06):
Two thousand and one A space whatever the travesty is
that one?

Speaker 2 (52:10):
That?

Speaker 1 (52:10):
Did I see that one? No? I saw the creature
wasn't nice. That's I get that one. Mixed up the
credits for this We already mentioned the freeze frame gag
at the end, but I was paying attention to the credits.
There are gag credits in here, but it takes a
lot to get to them. They're not peppered throughout as
they used to be in some of these Zaz movies.

(52:32):
I didn't notice funny jokes until they got to the
set dressers and they talked about this dressing, that dressing.
Then they said salad dressing, and they had French vinigrette,
thousand Island and something else. And I was like, okay,
all right, there are a few things in here. They
had at one point Netflix's password, and they had a
password in there, but it was just very small, very subtle,

(52:56):
and if anything, I thought they should have done it
a little bit more, especially I'm expecting it, but I'm
also hoping like that people get to see weird al
at the end.

Speaker 2 (53:06):
I had to leave suddenly, so I missed everything after
the very first credit, and I was curious if there
was an end credit scene.

Speaker 1 (53:15):
Yeah, there's just so there's the gag with the freeze frame.
They do something else before the weird al other than
the credits. I don't remember, do you remember, Chris?

Speaker 4 (53:26):
I think, so.

Speaker 1 (53:27):
Okay, So it's just occasional funny credits and then we
do the weird al bit at the very end. So yeah,
it was me and one other dude stuck around in
the theater to see that.

Speaker 4 (53:38):
And you know what's really funny to speak to the
Pam Anderson of it all. Pam Anderson was in Superhero
which is insane because to even speak to a crazier
trend here, naked gun has not been in our lives
since the nineties, since the third one, so many movies,
so many comedy trends have come and gone, Like like

(53:58):
Superhero movie, which is it a movie that came out
in two thousand and eight. That's a parody of superhero
movies in two thousand and eight before superhero movies ostensibly
even came out in a lot of ways for a
lot of people, it's interesting that naked gun is still
allowed to be what it is in this day and age,
post all these other things. I think it actually goes

(54:19):
to show that naked gun I think as a formula
still works rather well if you give it the respect
that it deserves and not just try to force topical gags.
Is I think the issue with those those like later
Friedberg Seltzer movies' is like, oh, here's Miles Fisher, Tom Cruise, Yeah,

(54:40):
like this Tom yeah.

Speaker 1 (54:42):
Member from two weeks ago?

Speaker 4 (54:44):
Yeah yeah, Tom Cruise jumping on the couch, Like like
do we need to see this in a movie?

Speaker 1 (54:50):
Like I imagine somebody watching those movies today would be like,
what the hell is this referring to?

Speaker 4 (54:56):
We might be that way if we watch them, Like
if we we were to sit down and watch those
movies in reverse from the most recent one to the
original one with something like scary movie, like I guarantee
you there will be references to shit, we're just like why,
Like one of those movies, I don't remember which one,
I think it's Epic Movie has a reference to Johnny
Depp playing Willy Wonka.

Speaker 1 (55:18):
Yeah, oh yeah, that's Crispin Glover in that role.

Speaker 4 (55:21):
Who the fuck would remember that in this day and age, like, oh,
Johnny Depp played Willy Wonka, Like yeah, yeah, he did.
Okay to what end well?

Speaker 2 (55:29):
And they referenced a lot of commercials that were popular
at the time and think stuff that you forget after
a little while, not it doesn't even take years to
forget about.

Speaker 1 (55:39):
The closest you get with that is like an airplane
when the woman's saying, oh, he never asked for a
second cup of my coffee. But that's not bad. That's
not a terrible thing that they had that.

Speaker 2 (55:53):
I think we had to explain that bit to Chris
because he's younger and we grew up seeing those commercials
like nightly they were pretty ubiquitous on TV.

Speaker 4 (56:02):
But yes, out.

Speaker 2 (56:03):
Totally out of date now or even five or six
years later. But even when the first airplane came out,
they weren't expecting repeat viewings thirty years later on a
thing called VHS or laser disc or DVD or anything
like that. Not thinking of timeliness so much. You are
people not going to get this anymore? But cares When

(56:25):
are they going to watch this again?

Speaker 1 (56:28):
Well, come back to the theater.

Speaker 4 (56:29):
Speaking of airplane, we should take this opportunity to mention Mike,
you're on the airplane too, blu Ray.

Speaker 1 (56:33):
Yeah, yeah, very excited for that. I love that whole
thing where I was so pissed off when I was
talking to you guys, just like I have one of
those fucking assholes on there doing that commentary, And then
I reached out to Keno and I was like, I
should be on this.

Speaker 4 (56:46):
I've talked damn that fucking yeah exactly. Why would you
get another fucking asshole if you could get this.

Speaker 1 (56:52):
This asshole right here baby? Yeah. Yeah. To go back
to Pam Anderson, Yeah, I think she's fantastic in this.
I really like that they don't make her up and
just really try to make her. She's an age appropriate
love interest to me. She might actually be too young
for Liam Neeson, but I found her to be hilarious.

(57:13):
Apparently she was up for the role that Anna Nicole
Smith played in the last one, and now I'm like, well, yeah,
show me that. I would like to have seen that version.
And Nicole Smith I thought was fantastic in there because
she could play dumb like nobody's business. But I really
think that Pam Anderson a huge barbed wire fan over here.
I think it says she's great and super happy to

(57:35):
see her doing full fledged comedy.

Speaker 4 (57:37):
The most surprising thing about this movie for me is
how good she is, not because I didn't think she
would be good, but because I haven't seen her in
enough things really to have an opinion about her. But
if she can do this kind of comedy and can
live in this space, it doesn't take herself super serious,
which would seem to me she doesn't. I love how
good Pam Anderson is in this movie because I wasn't

(57:58):
concerned about how good Leo Nson was going to be.
Priscilla Presley is as good as Liam Neeson is in
those movies, like she is as funny as he is.
There are a lot of moments in those movies that
work because of the chemistry of the two of them.
And I would say the same here, like Pam Anderson
is as good as Liam Neeson is.

Speaker 1 (58:16):
Now. That makes me wonder how much she was in
the whole Borat thing. And I'm just like, she had
to have been completely on board.

Speaker 4 (58:23):
For that, I would assume, so I think so.

Speaker 1 (58:26):
I think yeah, because I think she's got a good
sense of humor about herself too.

Speaker 4 (58:30):
She's been in the public sphere for so long at
this point.

Speaker 1 (58:33):
Oh yeah, I'm trying to think it back to when
Baywatch first came on, and then she was even a
tool time girl for uh he was on Home Improvement.

Speaker 4 (58:41):
Yeah, that was her original gig.

Speaker 1 (58:44):
And that was a long time ago, I know, because
I'm that old.

Speaker 4 (58:48):
Good on her as well for saying I'm not gonna
do makeup anymore. Like good on her. That's a big
deal in this industry, and like good on her, good
for her, like fuck them.

Speaker 1 (58:58):
And there's a whole thing about breast implants too, where
she's like, yeah, I really shouldn't have gotten these. I'm like, Okay,
it's your fucking body. Do what you want to do.

Speaker 4 (59:06):
I'm hopeful for the future of naked gun. I actually
want there to be more naked gun movies. I want
to be able to buy a popcorn bucket for this
movie that's not eighty dollars because I wasn't able to
get it in the fucking theaters because I didn't get
the big bran beaver. I want the big brown beaver.
I want Wenona's big brown beaver.

Speaker 1 (59:25):
Even that has nothing to do with sex. That's just
about a beaver.

Speaker 4 (59:29):
Well less claypool. Slap at the base and we're good.
Nothing beautiful beaver.

Speaker 2 (59:33):
What can you say?

Speaker 1 (59:35):
Overall? I would highly recommend this to people to check out.
Don't expect exactly the same as the Naked Gun series,
but expect something else that's pretty darn funny. All right,
let's go ahead and wrap up, Mark Begley. Where can
people find more of your fun stuff and only the
fun stuff, none of the boring.

Speaker 2 (59:53):
Stuff, only the fun stuff.

Speaker 1 (59:55):
Oh god?

Speaker 2 (59:56):
Now you can find my two shows wake Up Heavy
and Cambridge and Sean Ober at weirdingwaymedia dot com. How
about you, Chris Stashu.

Speaker 4 (01:00:05):
You find all the stuff that I work on at
weirdingwaymedia dot com, which is named for Doune David Lynch
is doing more specifically, rest in peace, David Lynch, So
weird thing that happened since the last time. We a
lot of things that happened since the last.

Speaker 1 (01:00:18):
Time we recorded this show.

Speaker 4 (01:00:19):
Yeah, that's where you can find everything that I work on,
including the original run of this show, which we talked about,
the entire original Police Squad TV show. We talked about
Airplane as well, did we not like we did?

Speaker 2 (01:00:31):
We did a lot of stuffn films that, Yeah, that
prompted us to do I always forget the title of
the one with Vl Kilmer top Secret.

Speaker 1 (01:00:40):
Top Secret, did that as a crossover with the projection
both Yeah, and then I'd highly recommend that people check
out our Airplane two episode as well, which was a
lot of fun.

Speaker 4 (01:00:49):
And technically, if you're looking for something that has the
three of us that continues the three of us talking
about comedies or quote unquote comedies, the Chase, the Chasing
Chevy Chase podcast where we talk about Chevy Chase movies
once a month and we're almost at the end of
that show at this point now, which is crazy in
and of itself. So that's where you can find me
and all the things that I work on with these two.

Speaker 1 (01:01:11):
So what about you, Mike, Yeah, same thing Weirdowa medias
dot com, where you can find everything we do. The
last one of these Police Squad and Color episodes came
out March fifteenth, twenty twenty three.

Speaker 4 (01:01:22):
So I hate that. I hate that. It feels like.

Speaker 1 (01:01:25):
A lot longer, doesn't it. That's only yes, specifically for.

Speaker 2 (01:01:29):
Me two and years though, Yeah, that I was thinking, Okay, man, No.

Speaker 4 (01:01:35):
I know we didn't record anything in twenty four for
this because we had talked about it, like offline, We're like, oh,
we'll do something with Naked Gun finally comes out. But
that was like us just kicking the can in twenty four.

Speaker 2 (01:01:46):
But we knew back then that it was coming, and
it was with Liam Neeson that was one of the
main rumors.

Speaker 4 (01:01:51):
Towards the end of the show. Yeah, I listened to
a couple of the episodes that we did towards the
end of the show. We talked. We start talking about
the fact that like it had been confirmed, they confirmed
it while we were literally doing the show. It's kind
of like with what's going on with Rankin on Bond,
which you can find at mine and Mike's Patreon. They've
like started announcing things for the next James Bond while

(01:02:12):
we're doing the show like they were announcing naked gun stuff,
because we started recording that show in like twenty one,
and it's been even longer since we started that show.
We started that show in like twenty one.

Speaker 1 (01:02:23):
Twenty two. You're talking about Raking on Bond or Police.

Speaker 4 (01:02:26):
Squad, Police Squad.

Speaker 2 (01:02:27):
We got through it fast, though, because we recorded weekly
on that and we recorded three episodes of the show
each time.

Speaker 4 (01:02:35):
But it came out it ended. Our show ended in
twenty three, is what you said, Mike.

Speaker 1 (01:02:38):
Yeah, and it started December seventeen, twenty twenty two. It
we only did nine episodes of it. It feels like
we did so much for it. I think it was
because we were reading the scripts, we were listening to
the commentaries all that stuff. So it was trying to
do a lot of research in a short amount of time.

Speaker 4 (01:02:54):
So what you're saying is a show needs a reboot.

Speaker 1 (01:02:56):
Yeah, sure, why not. That was a lot of fun
to do and I'm glad that we're coming back and
doing this. I can't say final episode because hopefully we'll
come back when the sequel comes out.

Speaker 2 (01:03:05):
There might be sequels, yeah, hopefully. Fingers Crossed all based
on Money Boys, so it does well, they'll make more.

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