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Speaker 4: Do I miss you? And you?
Speaker 2: Frank are the best of the best.
Speaker 3: In the bathroom.
Speaker 1: I need this woman immediately.
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Speaker 2: Overhear the tenant. I think someone murdered my brother.
Speaker 3: Please take a share, Thank you. I'll find them this
Speaker 3: is what I do, says you served twenty years for
Speaker 3: man's laughter.
Speaker 1: You mean manslaughter?
Speaker 3: Must have been quite a joke.
Speaker 1: They're going to shut down police squad if you do
Speaker 1: not solve this case.
Speaker 4: Do this by the book?
Speaker 3: Why who's going to arrest me?
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Speaker 1: Comrades of comedy. Citizens of cinema, Today we march not
Speaker 1: upon Rome, but upon the silver screen, to bear witness
Speaker 1: to the glorious rebirth of an empire of absurdity. For years,
Speaker 1: the sacred legacy of Frank Dreben lay in the archives,
Speaker 1: a relic of slapstick past. But now under the bold
Speaker 1: banner of Naked Gun twenty twenty five, it returns faster, sharper,
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Speaker 1: Dreven Forever, Viva Naked Gun. Yeah, I'm Mike White and
Speaker 1: welcome to from the files Police Squad in Color, and
Speaker 1: I am joined, of course by mister Christashue.
Speaker 4: Wow, Mike, that was horrifying and informative at the same time.
Speaker 2: That was amazing.
Speaker 1: Actually pretty proud of myself just coming up with that.
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Speaker 1: I see it every day.
Speaker 4: You can't fight city Hall Mark. I know it's a
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Speaker 1: Yes, we're back, rejoining the discussion of zucker Abram zucker fills,
Speaker 1: specifically those around the Police Squad series and coming back
Speaker 1: with it. Co had Gun twenty twenty five aka Naked
Speaker 1: Gun four. I think I'm the only person that calls
Speaker 1: it naked Gun for otherwise it gets very confusing. Or
Speaker 1: you could call it the naked Gun, which I think
Speaker 1: it is actually the naked Gun.
Speaker 4: It is title like the Suicide Squad.
Speaker 1: Yes, like the sus guys were the other ones the
Speaker 1: naked guns as well?
Speaker 2: Oh okay, yeah, I thought that was the distinction. And
Speaker 2: then I looked and I'm like, oh no, it.
Speaker 4: Was no for all that it was the naked Gun
Speaker 4: from the files of police's police Squad, the Naked Gun
Speaker 4: two and a half, and then Naked Gun thirty three
Speaker 4: and a.
Speaker 1: Third, And there was no joke name that they're going for,
Speaker 1: even though apparently in the past there were joke names
Speaker 1: for this, including naked Gun for Nordberg. Did it one
Speaker 1: little joke? Just one little nod there to oh J Simpson.
Speaker 1: That was pretty good.
Speaker 2: I'm glad they stuck with just the one joke.
Speaker 1: They had been talking about doing this film for a while,
Speaker 1: apparently even having a made for TV version of it,
Speaker 1: which would have been interesting where it was listening Nielsen
Speaker 1: kind of passing the torch over to somebody else. I
Speaker 1: don't think it would have been Liam Neeson at the time.
Speaker 1: There were talks about also in the past having Ed Helms,
Speaker 1: who we were just talking about recently. Right, that would
Speaker 1: not have worked. No, you need somebody very serious in
Speaker 1: a role like this.
Speaker 4: I think that this is one of the smartest things
Speaker 4: about this movie is the casting of Liam Nathan because
Speaker 4: he's been Pamela Anderson are really good together and they
Speaker 4: might be fucking in real life. I actually think they are.
Speaker 4: I think they marry at.
Speaker 2: Something definitely happened on set.
Speaker 1: Natasha Richardson's sister has something to say about that screams
Speaker 1: the headlines. Who gives a shit?
Speaker 4: Hey, they're happy, That's all that matters.
Speaker 1: Natasha Richardson ate it like twenty years ago.
Speaker 2: I thought he had their blessing. That's what I've been reading.
Speaker 4: What does any tummy Lee's blessing too?
Speaker 2: Hey, yeah, he's gonna get dalnked with his big Wayne
Speaker 2: long here.
Speaker 1: Okay, by the way, we will spoiling things, as if
Speaker 1: you can spoil a movie like this, but that also
Speaker 1: means talking about a lot of the punchlines and some
Speaker 1: of the things that you are actually paying money to
Speaker 1: go to the theater to see. Though I will admit,
Speaker 1: when I saw this at the theater yesterday, it was
Speaker 1: one of those like twenty five seaters and there were
Speaker 1: maybe like six people in there. So I don't think
Speaker 1: this is going to be at the theater too much longer.
Speaker 1: I imagine this will be probably streaming by the time
Speaker 1: this episode comes out.
Speaker 2: My little insular world of Twitter, everybody was going crazy
Speaker 2: about it, so I thought it was doing Gangbusters and
Speaker 2: dumb comedies back and all that crap. I don't know,
Speaker 2: maybe it isn't.
Speaker 4: Oh no, I actually had a fair amount of people
Speaker 4: that told me that they went and saw this movie
Speaker 4: in theaters. I don't know. The movie seemed to do
Speaker 4: rather well. It seemed to be seemed to have made
Speaker 4: its money back already, so I think we're like two
Speaker 4: weeks removed from the movie coming out.
Speaker 1: There's that massive drop off, even just on the second week.
Speaker 1: It's almost rare for a movie to make as much,
Speaker 1: if not more, the second week. It just right down
Speaker 1: the cliff.
Speaker 4: And it's not a Marvel movie. I think the only
Speaker 4: way additional people are going to go see a movie
Speaker 4: like this is word of mouth, not like Curb Appeals.
Speaker 1: Not a Marvel movie though, Wolverine Reunion here with Danny
Speaker 1: Houston and Kevin Durant the Blob and.
Speaker 4: Who's playing like William Striker.
Speaker 1: The Striker, Yes, yeah, Striker Striker Striker aka Sally Decker.
Speaker 1: I have a few complaints about this movie. One of
Speaker 1: those complaints is Danny Houston and Liam Neeson speaking to
Speaker 1: each other. It sounds like it's the same person talking
Speaker 1: to themselves.
Speaker 2: Okay, I wasn't the only one who's saying what line?
Speaker 1: Now, Danny Houston really starting to sound a lot like
Speaker 1: his dad, And I think that if he wanted to,
Speaker 1: if you wanted to just push just a little bit,
Speaker 1: he could do the John Houston voice impeccably.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sure he does. He probably does it all
Speaker 2: the time.
Speaker 1: I'm sure like he's voiced his character his dad in
Speaker 1: different things like documentaries or something. Yeah, he does a
Speaker 1: great job. And dam Houston fucking hilarious guy and Liam
Speaker 1: Neeson fucking hilarious guy. And I love that they use
Speaker 1: Nissan's very cold, calculating, taken type persona so much of
Speaker 1: this time, where it's like growling out these lines and
Speaker 1: having the voiceover was very smart as well. Of course,
Speaker 1: we know that Frank Drubbitt had a voiceover, so given
Speaker 1: it to Liam Neeson here I thought was very smart.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed it. I guess in that insular world I
Speaker 2: live in, it got a little over hyped, so I
Speaker 2: was like, oooh, joke him second. And it wasn't as
Speaker 2: damn packed as the Naked Gun movies where you watch
Speaker 2: it five times because you've missed nineteen different things going on.
Speaker 2: It's not quite like that, And I don't think there
Speaker 2: were early as many or I didn't notice a lot
Speaker 2: of that background foreground. Something serious was happening in the foreground.
Speaker 2: There was a joke going on in the background that
Speaker 2: didn't seem to be happening. Not that they need to
Speaker 2: follow the blueprint of those movies or of Zaz movies
Speaker 2: to a t which I'm sure they didn't want to do,
Speaker 2: but it seemed a lot tamer as far as gags
Speaker 2: a second to me, and I didn't know if that
Speaker 2: was just me missing everything or if that's how the
Speaker 2: movie was.
Speaker 1: You didn't miss anything. It is very much one layer
Speaker 1: of jokes, the closest they get to multi in the
Speaker 1: multiple layers. They really hand you what's happening on that
Speaker 1: second layer, like I think of when they're walking through
Speaker 1: police squad after cch Pounder.
Speaker 4: Yells it's a no day at police squad.
Speaker 1: And then they cut to a guy getting his mugshot
Speaker 1: taken and there's like a wind machine and the photographers
Speaker 1: is very much a fashion photographer. And then we have
Speaker 1: Frank and Ed Paul walter Hauser. I guess it's the
Speaker 1: summer of Paul walter Hauser between this and Fantastic Four
Speaker 1: coming out within a few weeks, and them walking and
Speaker 1: talking and I'm like, okay, yeah, that was very obvious
Speaker 1: what that joke was. There's not a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: going on in the background. I was definitely paying attention
Speaker 1: to that, trying to be like, okay, is there something
Speaker 1: funny else other than what's happening here? And yeah, the
Speaker 1: jokes per second, jokes per minute, jokes per maybe five minutes.
Speaker 1: There were a few times, especially at the beginning, where
Speaker 1: I was laughing out loud quite a bit. I loved
Speaker 1: little things like him putting on the rubber glove and
Speaker 1: then reaching in with the hand without the glove into
Speaker 1: the crashed car. Some of the site gags and everything,
Speaker 1: but yeah, it felt like it was one layer of
Speaker 1: jokes happening at all times, which is.
Speaker 2: Maybe better for a modern audience. I hate to say,
Speaker 2: do you have to direct everything to modern audience that
Speaker 2: can't keep up with stuff? But I felt like, okay,
Speaker 2: I don't have im. I don't want to have to
Speaker 2: pay attention to every little corner of the screen and
Speaker 2: feel dumb for missing something because I tune in knowing
Speaker 2: we're going to talk about it. It is a little
Speaker 2: bit off than just watching it for enjoyments. I did
Speaker 2: notice the beaver though, because that was very subtle to
Speaker 2: put a pin on it.
Speaker 1: I felt that there was a lot more absurdist stuff,
Speaker 1: like when Frank goes to the club that Danny Houston
Speaker 1: owns or sorry, it's more the event that he's doing,
Speaker 1: and there are all those posters like delivery and this
Speaker 1: and that, and then pumpkins, like him standing in a
Speaker 1: field with a bunch of pumpkins. It's like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was funny, just absurd kind of stuff. And I
Speaker 1: was expecting a little bit more out of the screenwriters
Speaker 1: for this because I really liked the Chippindale movie that
Speaker 1: they did together Dan Gregor and Doug Manned. I'm not
Speaker 1: that familiar with the Kiva Schaeffer though, and I don't
Speaker 1: know if.
Speaker 4: Part of the Lonely Island.
Speaker 1: Oh that's right, thank you.
Speaker 4: Well, he's the guy in the Lonely Island with the
Speaker 4: facial hair. Is essentially the best way of putting in.
Speaker 1: I know. I saw pop Star Never Stop, Never Stopping,
Speaker 1: and of course I've seen through it down the Ground
Speaker 1: though I really feel that that skit kind of takes
Speaker 1: a shit at the end when they get to the
Speaker 1: Hollywood Phonies part. But okay, yeah, he's got some good
Speaker 1: comedy chops.
Speaker 4: I'm on a boat.
Speaker 1: And then of course he also directed Chippendale Rescue Rangers,
Speaker 1: Got the whole gang back here again? No Andy Samdberg though, No,
Speaker 1: but I meant as far as that Rescue Rangers thing.
Speaker 4: I enjoyed this movie a fair amount. I think it's
Speaker 4: a pretty worthy successor to what this franchise could be.
Speaker 4: I think it's also a rather interesting entry into the
Speaker 4: franchise given what it has to be now, given the
Speaker 4: environment that this movie has come out into, because there's
Speaker 4: parts of this movie that are aping action movies that
Speaker 4: were not. This movie apes action movies at times which
Speaker 4: Naked Gun didn't really do back in the day, and
Speaker 4: this is existing in a post John Wick, post taked world.
Speaker 4: That's the thing that I feel like is even more
Speaker 4: on the nose, and even funnier is putting Liam Neeson
Speaker 4: in this movie, given that he is actually an action star.
Speaker 4: Leslie Nielsen was just an actor, but he was not
Speaker 4: an action star, and he wasn't an action actor, and
Speaker 4: they didn't expect that of him in the Naked Gun movies.
Speaker 4: But in this it's almost like you expected Part and
Speaker 4: Parcel with Liam Neeson being cast in the movie, and that,
Speaker 4: for me is I think one of the smartest things
Speaker 4: about this movie is it does understand the world that
Speaker 4: it exists within now and it's not fighting it. It's
Speaker 4: not trying to be it's not trying to exist in
Speaker 4: another time and place. This isn't Naked Gun movie made
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty five, for good and for bad in
Speaker 4: a lot of ways, like the main villain being essentially
Speaker 4: an Elon Musk type like a little bit on the nose,
Speaker 4: like a little on the nose, but not in a
Speaker 4: bad way. Like I almost think like there's no other
Speaker 4: way to make this movie other than to address it
Speaker 4: head on.
Speaker 2: That was my one complaint. I assumed since he one
Speaker 2: of his big things as electric cars, that this isn't
Speaker 2: Elon Musk grip, but he's not weird enough. I wanted
Speaker 2: him to be weird. Once I sussed that out, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 2: electric car guy, Okay, Elon Musk, he should have been
Speaker 2: an absolute weird I maybe.
Speaker 4: He does like the Black Eyed peas.
Speaker 2: His plot, his world domination plot should have been more bizarre,
Speaker 2: not just plot device. It's making people regress to a
Speaker 2: prehistoric rage or whatever. It should have been really fucking weird.
Speaker 2: Let's make this guy weird, not just that he's handing
Speaker 2: his balls or whatever he's doing with that machine, Like,
Speaker 2: make him really fucking weird.
Speaker 1: That's based off of some of that weirdo bro shit.
Speaker 1: Isn't it like that men are becoming too feminized and
Speaker 1: the way to not do that is to put like
Speaker 1: a red light on your ballsack or some shit like
Speaker 1: I've heard that in those like fucking Alex Jones joke.
Speaker 1: Fair Yeah, the MANI sphered Jesus fucking Christ.
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Speaker 2: It just made me think of that guy that keeps
Speaker 2: replenishing his blood or whatever to stay or he's like,
Speaker 2: I think he has transfusions with his young son and
Speaker 2: he's supposed to. I do not know what his name
Speaker 2: is there anything, but they always show pictures of him.
Speaker 2: Can you believe this man is forty seven? And I'm like,
Speaker 2: he looks worse than I do, and I'm fifty six.
Speaker 2: What are you talking about? It's like a fucking corpse.
Speaker 1: I have to admit that I was very confused during
Speaker 1: the scene where they're showing Frank his electric car. The gift,
Speaker 1: I guess you can just get gifts from billionaires gifting
Speaker 1: to the police department, which is absolutely especially in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. The guy who shows him what his car
Speaker 1: looks like, who's basically the I can't remember. I want
Speaker 1: to say ted, but that's not right. But anyway, honestly,
Speaker 1: when I saw him in the trailers, I thought he
Speaker 1: was Corey Feldman. Chase Stephen Anderson, You, sir, can be
Speaker 1: in the Corey Feldman story because you can pull that
Speaker 1: look off. So maybe think about doing that, because even
Speaker 1: as I'm watching it in the theater, I'm like, holy fuck,
Speaker 1: does he look like Corey Feldman?
Speaker 4: It is ted by the way, Oh okay good in
Speaker 4: the first movie, Yeah, yeah he does. He does a
Speaker 4: Feldman esque the.
Speaker 2: Lab tech guy. Is that who we're talking about here?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I wanted a little more from him, a little more
Speaker 2: weirdness too, because that guy was always weird.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, especially when they would come in they'd
Speaker 1: be talking with children and stuff like.
Speaker 4: Why don't you run along now, Katie?
Speaker 5: And next week I'll show you why women can't play
Speaker 5: professional football.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the jokes felt kind of aimed. They didn't feel
Speaker 1: really like, oh wow, you just went there. Wow.
Speaker 4: It goes there a couple times, but it doesn't go
Speaker 4: there enough. There are gags that go on for way
Speaker 4: too long, and there are gags that I wish they
Speaker 4: would mine a little bit more. And I'm sure that
Speaker 4: there is an version of this movie where there's alternate
Speaker 4: takes of scenes. There may not be a whole plethora
Speaker 4: of deleted scenes, but there definitely are alternate takes of scenes.
Speaker 4: There have to be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the really only part that was gag a second
Speaker 2: was that opening in the bank where you have multiple
Speaker 2: gun gags, and I loved the party when he picked
Speaker 2: up the guy to us as a shield and it
Speaker 2: was an obvious dummy that was. That was actually probably
Speaker 2: my biggest laugh of the whole movie. Honestly, it was
Speaker 2: more chuckles and ahahas throughout.
Speaker 4: I didn't It.
Speaker 2: Wasn't laugh a second for me, I guess is my
Speaker 2: overall feeling on it, and not that all of the
Speaker 2: naked gun movies are, but it feels like there is
Speaker 2: a little bit more to go back to, and this one,
Speaker 2: I don't know how much I'm going to be going
Speaker 2: back to it.
Speaker 1: That's the thing that we were talking about where who's
Speaker 1: in on the joke, right, It's that whole Frank Drebin
Speaker 1: is a complete moron and walks through the world with
Speaker 1: no one really questioning it, and everyone once in a
Speaker 1: while you'll get somebody who questions it, even like Nancy
Speaker 1: Marshaan was just like would rollerrize at times. But here
Speaker 1: there are times where he gets away with that where
Speaker 1: he just says stupid stuff and nobody calls him on it.
Speaker 1: But then there are other times where they do call
Speaker 1: him on it, like when he comes in and he
Speaker 1: says to bust A rhymes twenty years for man's laughter.
Speaker 1: That must have been one hell of a joke. And
Speaker 1: then he's like, you mean manslaughter. He's like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: and then puts the file down. I'm like, no, don't
Speaker 1: call him on it, just let it go, like and
Speaker 1: then take that and make it worse. Do one more
Speaker 1: on top of that.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I like the whole bit.
Speaker 1: Of the montage of the body cam stuff or the
Speaker 1: police camp, though they had way too many angles for
Speaker 1: that footage.
Speaker 2: Felt let's not cinema sens this movie. I think that
Speaker 2: every time that there is footage, Oh man, who was
Speaker 2: directing this thing? Who was directing all that footage?
Speaker 4: Gay?
Speaker 2: Gamera two, Gamera three?
Speaker 1: I guess when it comes to the oh they went
Speaker 1: their thing, the first choke that comes to my mind
Speaker 1: is when he goes into the bar, the Silver Tiger
Speaker 1: or the Bengal Club or whatever that is, and there's
Speaker 1: that bartender that he talks to.
Speaker 4: Played by Cody Rhodes, the wrestler of all people, does
Speaker 4: a great job. I felt he's talented. It's just random.
Speaker 2: You don't remember me, do you should?
Speaker 1: I my brother?
Speaker 4: You shot him in the name of justice.
Speaker 3: I could literally be thousands of people shot him in
Speaker 3: the back as he ran away, hundreds unarmed, at least fifty.
Speaker 4: He was white.
Speaker 1: So you're Tony Royland's brother.
Speaker 4: That was pretty good.
Speaker 2: That was pretty good. I'm gouda use a little bit
Speaker 2: more of that commentary throughout the surprise.
Speaker 4: They don't, But at the same time, I'm glad they
Speaker 4: didn't because I don't know. I don't know if I
Speaker 4: needed it. In My Naked Gun.
Speaker 2: Movie they are playing cops. The Baganda copaganda in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five doesn't really fly. So they did it in gosh,
Speaker 2: I can't remember. I think it was one of the
Speaker 2: movies eating the People and like just randomly beating people
Speaker 2: of color in one of the films.
Speaker 4: Just because that's what the cops do.
Speaker 2: And they did it back in the late eighties early
Speaker 2: nineties because of the Rodney King stuff, so they could
Speaker 2: have done it here.
Speaker 1: One joke I felt went way too long was the
Speaker 1: crab people joke when.
Speaker 5: The founding fathers created this country. They sat in a
Speaker 5: room like this, filled with men like us. I'm birthed
Speaker 5: an empire the USA.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's right.
Speaker 5: But as years went by, other people want to get
Speaker 5: into that room.
Speaker 4: Fish people what fish people? Gills on their necks. I
Speaker 4: don't like mermen and mer women mermaids.
Speaker 5: Right, No, stop not fish people. Ungrateful people, people that
Speaker 5: did not earn their seat at the table.
Speaker 1: People not built with the men in this run crab hans.
Speaker 2: They had crab hands instead of fingers.
Speaker 5: Stop, I know what I mean, So just let me
Speaker 5: do the thing.
Speaker 4: This is a crab hand.
Speaker 1: I've met him.
Speaker 4: Put the phone away. That was one of my favorite
Speaker 4: scenes in the movie.
Speaker 1: I think had they gone farther with it and had
Speaker 1: everyone on that board believing in crab people or something,
Speaker 1: I thought that would have been a little bit better.
Speaker 1: But instead it was just those two guys going back
Speaker 1: and forth and just like drop it, just drop it,
Speaker 1: come on, let's go. Just felt like it lasted like
Speaker 1: two beats too long.
Speaker 2: I always attribute it to Austin powers, where you go
Speaker 2: you just keep going until it's not funny anymore, and
Speaker 2: then it comes back around to being absurd and then
Speaker 2: it's funny again. And that's another thing that I felt
Speaker 2: was missing from this, but wasn't on ahad that it
Speaker 2: was missing from this, because that does get old. I
Speaker 2: didn't really feel it for this, Like I'm sitting here
Speaker 2: listening to you on my Crab people joke, what does
Speaker 2: he talk like? I totally forgot about it. But yeah,
Speaker 2: would it have been more memorable to me if it
Speaker 2: had been done ad nauseum or come back up later
Speaker 2: in the movie or something.
Speaker 1: It does come back one more time. Yeah, at the
Speaker 1: very end when weird Al and I hope that was
Speaker 1: part of the version that you saw, because I know
Speaker 1: sometimes credits get cut off. But at the very end,
Speaker 1: weird Al comes back and he's playing at the Giggle
Speaker 1: Bunker room and it's just him with a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of empty tables and he's like, hello, anybody, crazy billionaires,
Speaker 1: crab people.
Speaker 4: I'm glad that weird Ow was in the movie again.
Speaker 4: Got to keep that street, keep that streak going.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I kind of wish that board of directors
Speaker 1: would have been either this guy is crazy or we
Speaker 1: are way more evil than he is, even just to
Speaker 1: really put that whole bunch of rich white people, even
Speaker 1: though they weren't all white people, a bunch of rich
Speaker 1: older people all on the board at the same time.
Speaker 1: Sometimes Kevin Duran gives like little looks where he's like,
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure about this guy, but never really
Speaker 1: comes back.
Speaker 4: Speaking of Austin Powers, they copp directly from Austin Powers
Speaker 4: with the dog gag where it looks like they're having
Speaker 4: sex with his dog.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that whole kitchen scene. I was like, this was done.
Speaker 2: And whichever one of those with Heather Graham and him
Speaker 2: in the tent.
Speaker 4: They do it twice in that movie.
Speaker 1: Too, like the fruit stuff with him and Vanessa.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: Or sorry, food stuff, it's not just fruit.
Speaker 4: The scene with the snowman, which is effectively the naked
Speaker 4: gun from the first movie, there's that, Like it's essentially
Speaker 4: like a music video.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's that montage. Something tells me I'm into something good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Herman's Hermits.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like a mini movie.
Speaker 4: I feel like if they had given the movie the
Speaker 4: rest of that energy, Like I enjoyed this movie immensely.
Speaker 4: I think I probably maybe even enjoyed it more than
Speaker 4: both of y'all. I will say though, like I think
Speaker 4: if the movie to Mike's point and marks point as well,
Speaker 4: I think if the movie had been more absurd, I
Speaker 4: think it would have checked more boxes for me. And
Speaker 4: I think it just it goes there. But having rewatched
Speaker 4: all three of the original Naked Gun movies to prepare
Speaker 4: for this episode, like they are a little bit more absurd.
Speaker 4: It's not like, it's not like terribly So I'm not
Speaker 4: saying that this movie is like, this is the most
Speaker 4: straightforward comedy I've ever seen, but like, there are parts
Speaker 4: of this movie that don't go far enough, and there
Speaker 4: are parts of this movie that like hold like really
Speaker 4: hold back, and I don't know why. I guess is
Speaker 4: it like And that's the other thing I guess, did
Speaker 4: this movie need to be our? Is that what it is?
Speaker 4: In this day and age? Did this movie have to
Speaker 4: be ours? R?
Speaker 1: It's PG thirteen, Okay, So you're asking should we have
Speaker 1: gone farther? Should? I mean, where were the mare boobs?
Speaker 1: Come on? No boobs in this movie.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I want to see a bear,
Speaker 4: I don't know if I want to see a bear's boobs.
Speaker 1: They have a whole line of them. It's usually about
Speaker 1: eight or so many teats.
Speaker 2: None of the Naked Gun films were any higher than
Speaker 2: a PG thirteen. I'm sure, so they're keeping it with that.
Speaker 4: But if that need to be something that they kept to,
Speaker 4: is my point.
Speaker 2: You want dumb teen boys going to see your movie.
Speaker 2: So are boys that appreciate dumb humor or girls teens
Speaker 2: that appreciate dumb humor going to your movie? Maybe those
Speaker 2: teens don't exist. I don't know.
Speaker 1: From what I hear. The new generation is afraid of sex,
Speaker 1: so I guess no, no bear boobs for them. Then
Speaker 1: Bam Anderson.
Speaker 4: Is really good in this movie.
Speaker 1: She is amazing. Her scat scene is speaking of rated R,
Speaker 1: but that is fucking amazing. I saw a clip on
Speaker 1: Instagram the other day where they weren't cutting between her
Speaker 1: and what Liam Neeson was up to, and it was
Speaker 1: just her doing the scatting. It was fucking amazing. I
Speaker 1: couldn't It was before I saw the movie, and I'm
Speaker 1: just like, what the hell is this? This is great.
Speaker 2: That was a perfect little naked gun police squad esque
Speaker 2: interlude there. That ridiculousness. It actually made me think of
Speaker 2: that was it the last episode or one of the
Speaker 2: last episodes of the show when he's up performing and
Speaker 2: is not nearly as funny as this scene in that film.
Speaker 2: But I was looking for anything to call back to
Speaker 2: the show or to the movies. They don't do a.
Speaker 4: Ton of it.
Speaker 2: The self driving car worked because of the way they
Speaker 2: would always shoot the driving scenes in Police Squad and
Speaker 2: Naked Gun.
Speaker 4: So I thought that was nice.
Speaker 2: That was a nice touch, and since it's topical and
Speaker 2: now it seemed to work. Okay, he hits a biker,
Speaker 2: I'm sure that was done in one of the movies
Speaker 2: or the show.
Speaker 4: He hits a person multiple to.
Speaker 2: No parking, though no trouble parking.
Speaker 1: I don't recall no hitting of garbage cans. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: does go through that police line, but that was one
Speaker 1: of the things where one of the policemen actually reacts,
Speaker 1: And like, should he have reacted or should he have
Speaker 1: just taken that as a normal thing.
Speaker 4: I don't like.
Speaker 2: And I know I talked about this on those podcasts
Speaker 2: about the movies and stuff when people would make the
Speaker 2: face you just got to let it go. And you
Speaker 2: mentioned it earlier in regard to a scene in this film,
Speaker 2: just like, just let it slide, don't acknowledge it. The
Speaker 2: joke is for us. It should be, And I think
Speaker 2: of Airplane when I think of that, where the joke
Speaker 2: is for us and we don't get all those clients.
Speaker 4: I'll get a few.
Speaker 2: I shouldn't say that, but just let the joke go.
Speaker 2: The character doesn't need to respond to the stupid comment.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you get a few of those fourth wall breaks too,
Speaker 1: which I always appreciated, like when Ted Striker would look
Speaker 1: at the camera and be like, what do would you do?
Speaker 1: Kind of thing, And we get a few of those
Speaker 1: where Reben will break that fourth wall and look straight
Speaker 1: at us and talk to us as the audience, And
Speaker 1: even especially at the end when the whole we do
Speaker 1: the freeze frame gag a little bit differently than we've
Speaker 1: seen it done before, but him actually seeing the camera
Speaker 1: and coming and approaching us, I thought was a good gag,
Speaker 1: and I was glad that they carried through on the
Speaker 1: freeze frame thing.
Speaker 2: When they did a little bit of a vacation gag
Speaker 2: the film one of the films that we talked about
Speaker 2: recently were you know in that film they put a
Speaker 2: pin on that this is a sequel to a beloved franchise,
Speaker 2: and but this one's going to be very different, and I.
Speaker 1: Want to be the same as you, daddy, But.
Speaker 4: The new one, the naked gun, the new one.
Speaker 2: They do the same thing here.
Speaker 1: I like the fight that he has in Club Bengal
Speaker 1: with all the computer guys behind the scenes, and especially
Speaker 1: when he's taking numbers. They've got the little ticker tape
Speaker 1: thing and he just keeps punching people out, or when
Speaker 1: he rips the guy's hands or arms off of him
Speaker 1: and starts smacking him with Those were pretty good and
Speaker 1: I like just seeing you know what a bad hass
Speaker 1: you hired Liam Neeson. Let's use him for this way.
Speaker 4: I think one of my favorite jokes in the movie
Speaker 4: is almost it's a callback to another joke from National
Speaker 4: Lampoon's Loaded Weapons. So in that movie, there's a scene
Speaker 4: where they go looking for the Emilio Estevez character and
Speaker 4: they think they find his trailer on the beach, and
Speaker 4: so the bad guys light it up and then it
Speaker 4: turns out it's just I believe it's supposed to be
Speaker 4: John McClain, but it is Bruce Willis, and he's just like, ah, wrong, yeah, wrong, trailer. Sorry,
Speaker 4: it's great, and like you have Bruce Willis in the
Speaker 4: movie for all of like thirty seconds. You make the
Speaker 4: most of it and it really works. I think for me,
Speaker 4: one of my favorite gags in this entire movie is
Speaker 4: at the end when all of a sudden, you just
Speaker 4: stop hearing Liam Neeson's voice and it's just Dave Bautista.
Speaker 2: I saw him in the credits, and I'm like, when
Speaker 2: it is Dave Bautista gonna show up? Is he one
Speaker 2: of the Hinchmen? What's going on here? And then oh, okay, having.
Speaker 4: Him show up as just Frank Dreben because Liam Neeson
Speaker 4: is apparently in the bathroom. Liam Neeson the actor is
Speaker 4: in the bathroom, is I think for me one of
Speaker 4: the funniest gags in the entire movie.
Speaker 1: I like that a lot. I also like c. H.
Speaker 1: Pounder with her sleeping husband, like where she's like, get
Speaker 1: me dribbon, and then like he's in the bedroom and
Speaker 1: just like he has this very important he sent tomorrow
Speaker 1: and he's going to get passed over by this person
Speaker 1: again even though he trained him. And I'm like, that's
Speaker 1: really good. I like this whole thing. And then that
Speaker 1: they show up with the sleep mask on still and
Speaker 1: then the great news at the very end, like it's
Speaker 1: one of those oh we found gold and oil and
Speaker 1: your stocks went up kind of thing. It's oh when
Speaker 1: you got the promotion.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Those are the things I like the most, are like
Speaker 1: the continuous jokes where we just go back to that
Speaker 1: well time and again. It's just like, give us a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of those types of things, like the whole
Speaker 1: thing with the coffee. I love the coffee bit.
Speaker 5: Though.
Speaker 1: With that, I kept thinking of fucking Beetlejuice and the
Speaker 1: Willem Dafoe character, that whole thing of that weird subplot
Speaker 1: in Beetle Juice Juice, Beetlejuice of like the cop movie
Speaker 1: inside of there.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh yeah, I just saw that recently.
Speaker 5: Wolf Jackson after Life Prime Units.
Speaker 2: Let me do a world step actor, not just any actor.
Speaker 1: I've done it all for six movies.
Speaker 4: And a reboot.
Speaker 3: I became Frank hardballer during my own stunts was non negotiable.
Speaker 4: You know why authenticity correct.
Speaker 2: A vice cop doesn't get to a purp store and
Speaker 2: then call for.
Speaker 3: Some ham bone stuntman to break it down, neither did I.
Speaker 2: You gotta keep it meal. I completely forgot about that movie.
Speaker 4: Speaking of legacy sequels, I think this was much more
Speaker 4: successful than Beetlejuice.
Speaker 1: Beetlejuice and this is probably up there with like an
Speaker 1: axule F for.
Speaker 4: Me, I would agree.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it didn't have twenty lot threads to get to
Speaker 2: weave through.
Speaker 1: Yeah. If anything, they kept it pretty straightforward with this
Speaker 1: whole mystery of the dead brother and the sister trying
Speaker 1: to help, and even throwing in the things like her
Speaker 1: true crime novels based on stories that she makes up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a good little just fiction.
Speaker 4: What about Liam Neeson and his tvo.
Speaker 3: That's my TiVo that I liked you yesterday so that
Speaker 3: you could watch season one A Buffy so that you
Speaker 3: could start getting my references. I know that, Frank and
Speaker 3: I specifically told you not to plug it into the internet.
Speaker 3: Oh oh, that's an Ethernet chord going for my tvo
Speaker 3: directly into your router where the internet comes from.
Speaker 2: I was just trying to plug it into the electricity.
Speaker 3: Now they might be expired. That means gone, no musical special,
Speaker 3: no Xander, no Spike, no Cordelia Tays, no Daniel Osborne,
Speaker 3: no Willow meets her double ganger. Episode nothing.
Speaker 5: Sorry, I didn't know they were.
Speaker 2: What was the other thing that he yeah, yeah, the
Speaker 2: Miranda right.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the city.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love that.
Speaker 1: No, Carrie Wrights. It took me a second for me
Speaker 1: to get what he was doing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like, what is he talking about? My wife
Speaker 2: and daughter have been going through that series and that
Speaker 2: is probably the only reason I recognize the names. Finally
Speaker 2: at the end and Samantha's.
Speaker 1: A orr yeah, because as soon as he said Carrie
Speaker 1: writes and like what and then he had to get
Speaker 1: to like the Cynthia Nixon character before I was like,
Speaker 1: oh now I got it.
Speaker 4: I really I also really like Kevin Durand in This
Speaker 4: Isn't my normal car, This Isn't the way I normally
Speaker 4: fall asleep. There are some really funny moments in this movie,
Speaker 4: like I would put this movie above I Honestly, I
Speaker 4: think I might put this movie above the Third Naked Gun,
Speaker 4: and I think it's as good as the Second Naked Gun,
Speaker 4: even though I do think the Second Naked Gun in
Speaker 4: a lot of ways is almost as good as the
Speaker 4: first one, because the second one has some of my
Speaker 4: favorite gags, like I've been swimming in raw sewage all day.
Speaker 4: I love it. I love it. I love it that
Speaker 4: like like that's for me. Like the second movie has
Speaker 4: a lot of like follow through gags that the first
Speaker 4: movie doesn't have. The second movie has those, like the
Speaker 4: gag with the zoo and the animals and the lion
Speaker 4: getting Robert Goulay at the end of the movie, and
Speaker 4: that's like halfway through the movie. They introduced that like
Speaker 4: reoccurring bit. Like, I think this movie is as good
Speaker 4: as the Second Naked Gun. I think this movie. I
Speaker 4: think it's a good starting place too, for the future
Speaker 4: of a franchise, which is weird to say, because I
Speaker 4: can't imagine they're gonna just do one of these movies
Speaker 4: at this point.
Speaker 1: I hope that they do more. And yeah, I hope,
Speaker 1: if anything, they do try to pick up on that
Speaker 1: let's do multiple layers of comedy thing. We saw. It
Speaker 1: wasn't just Ken Finkleman. It was some of the writers
Speaker 1: from The Simpsons as well. We've seen that you can
Speaker 1: do it. It doesn't have to be just as the
Speaker 1: a Z thing. If you do it wrong, it looks
Speaker 1: horrible and it's just a miserable experience. But at least
Speaker 1: I will say they didn't do it wrong. They did
Speaker 1: not do comedy wrong by this, like things like epic movie.
Speaker 1: I was thinking of gags like him coming in and
Speaker 1: stepping in the blood and seeing the knife that says
Speaker 1: pick me up and.
Speaker 4: Sad is one of my favorite. Also gags in the
Speaker 4: whole I did it right.
Speaker 1: And then when he picks up the corpse and it
Speaker 1: hits the ceiling fan and he's just there with the
Speaker 1: headless corpse when the cops come in and does flips
Speaker 1: out the window. I thought that was great. I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is the naked gun that I know.
Speaker 4: There's a little textas switch in this movie, which I appreciate.
Speaker 4: I honestly think that this movie really shines when they
Speaker 4: just let Liam Neeson talk and be fucking weird, like
Speaker 4: when he's talking to Kevin durand in that scene where
Speaker 4: they're trying to get the confession out of me, he's like,
Speaker 4: you're gonna be a pretty boy in prison, Like what
Speaker 4: the fuck are you talking about? Like, and it just
Speaker 4: keeps going, and it just keeps going, And I don't
Speaker 4: think there's not enough of that in the movie. Like
Speaker 4: I think in a lot of ways the movie also
Speaker 4: plays it safe in a way that. I don't think
Speaker 4: if there's a second I don't think the second one
Speaker 4: will play it as safe as his first one. But
Speaker 4: I think this first one had to play it safe
Speaker 4: because again, like they're I think we already alluded to it.
Speaker 4: They are trying to get as many people in the
Speaker 4: door as possible, like normal people, people that wouldn't be
Speaker 4: going out of their way to watch movies or going
Speaker 4: to see this kind of movie in theaters. I'm like,
Speaker 4: I do miss going to see this kind of movie
Speaker 4: in theaters because there's something that we said for like
Speaker 4: this movie in a theater, shared experience, everybody laughing and
Speaker 4: having a good time, Like this is the lost experience
Speaker 4: in this day and age.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think the last comedy I saw in
Speaker 1: the theater, and it takes a lot. They definitely do
Speaker 1: a very solid job with this. There are moments to
Speaker 1: me of absolute brilliance, like when he's trapped in the
Speaker 1: electric car and he busts out the windshield and he
Speaker 1: runs into the clown with the balloons, and then the
Speaker 1: guys carrying the bees, and then the guys carrying a
Speaker 1: windshield that just pops right back into place. I love it.
Speaker 1: I think I agree with you Mark that the villain
Speaker 1: should have been a little bit more, that it should
Speaker 1: have been a little bit crazier when it comes to that,
Speaker 1: more eccentric, like you know, yes, eccentric definitely.
Speaker 4: I saw his face.
Speaker 2: I don't know that I knew any Houston was in
Speaker 2: this before I watched it, And when I saw him,
Speaker 2: I thought, Oh, he's going to be that guy. He's
Speaker 2: been playing this guy for a while. I mean, he
Speaker 2: basically plays this in a much smaller role in Game
Speaker 2: Night and Big Wealthy, and he's probably weirder in that
Speaker 2: actually having fight club in his mansion, but it's almost typecasting.
Speaker 2: And then the reference to Musk, I thought, oh, he's
Speaker 2: going to be weird, and they never got super weird
Speaker 2: with him, and for me personally would have appreciated him
Speaker 2: his ideas just being absolutely wacko, or show him stealing
Speaker 2: everybody's ideas.
Speaker 1: There you go, yeah, yeah, here's a brand new thing
Speaker 1: that I came up with, and just have it be
Speaker 1: something that everyone already has. Here's a pet rock, or
Speaker 1: here's a Rubik's cube or something like that. Maybe just
Speaker 1: an inventor of really stupid gadget type of things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, or all the board people going. That was Bob's idea.
Speaker 2: The plot device was Billy's idea talking about I.
Speaker 1: Love some of those stupid things too, like when he's
Speaker 1: got the injury, which I don't really recall him getting
Speaker 1: an injury, but when he gets an injury and goes
Speaker 1: over to Pam Anderson's house and she pours the vodka
Speaker 1: on it and then she proceeds to make an entire
Speaker 1: bloody mary on his arm. Yeah, and then like has
Speaker 1: the piece of celery and I'm just like, I want
Speaker 1: to see her wrap the celery in the ace bandage
Speaker 1: kind of thing and have him carrying that for the
Speaker 1: rest of the movie. Yeah, there are some very funny
Speaker 1: bets in here, and yeah, I feel that it is
Speaker 1: good first entry and hopefully a new franchise. Though Liam
Speaker 1: Neesen is ten years older than.
Speaker 2: He ain't getting any younger, Leslie Nielsen was, Yeah, he
Speaker 2: doesn't look it.
Speaker 4: Though he doesn't look it.
Speaker 1: No, he looks great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I said, don't pull cinema sins out earlier, but
Speaker 2: I am going to do one because wouldn't Frank Dreben
Speaker 2: Junior be like in his thirties If we're going canonically
Speaker 2: with the last film when they have him years old
Speaker 2: in that movie.
Speaker 1: Mark. If you looked at the IMDb trivia, the Source
Speaker 1: of all knowledge, it says that it must have been others. Yes,
Speaker 1: another Frank Dreben junior, of.
Speaker 2: Course, yes, from a previous fling.
Speaker 4: Did he have to be Frank Dreben junior, That's a question.
Speaker 4: I'm curious. I'm asking y'all because I think he had
Speaker 4: to be Frank Drebben in some capacity, either rebooted or
Speaker 4: his son. But do you guys agree, like, did he
Speaker 4: have to be for this to work? Or could he?
Speaker 4: Could this have been a reboot?
Speaker 1: I think it could have been a reboot just as easily.
Speaker 1: I think the whole thing of him being Frank Drebbin's
Speaker 1: son and Paul Walter Hauser being Ed's son, I think
Speaker 1: that makes sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't come into play though, except for a
Speaker 2: couple of jokes for the obvious one of them all
Speaker 2: kneeling in front of their dad's or mother's pictures in
Speaker 2: that one scene where the only one O. J. Simpson
Speaker 2: gag is But I was thinking the same thing when
Speaker 2: I was watching it, because I had that stuck in
Speaker 2: my head that the kid would actually only be thirty
Speaker 2: or forty years old, that he could be a relative
Speaker 2: different kind of relative, a nephew or a long lost
Speaker 2: son or something. But they don't put too big a
Speaker 2: point on him being They don't get into the exploits
Speaker 2: of Frank Dreben in the movie you're doing what your
Speaker 2: dad did and blah blah, your dad was a fucking idiot.
Speaker 2: I think there might be too much outrage if he
Speaker 2: wasn't Frank Dreben Junior.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know, Chris, that's a good question.
Speaker 1: I'm glad he didn't die, is hair. I'm glad he
Speaker 1: didn't have the silver thing. Is that would I'd been
Speaker 1: way too distracting and just not look good on Liam Leason.
Speaker 4: I don't think he's already a silver fox of at
Speaker 4: it he does. I do love that the movie traffics
Speaker 4: in a little bit of meta real world with Liam
Speaker 4: Mason's fat wiener, which is a real thing in real life.
Speaker 4: Liam Mason is well known for being well hung, and
Speaker 4: I love that the movie traffics in that for no
Speaker 4: reason other than because there are a group of people
Speaker 4: that know that Liam Neeson has a big wiener that's
Speaker 4: literally it. I don't know why else they'd be making
Speaker 4: that joke for like what seems like quite an extended
Speaker 4: period of time. They have that guy describing his penis
Speaker 4: as a loaf of bread with a toupey on I think,
Speaker 4: or with an afro is what he says.
Speaker 2: With an afro wig. I'm one of the people that
Speaker 2: was not aware of this rumor, so I had no
Speaker 2: idea and a big schlong no idea.
Speaker 1: Going to say another one of my favorite gags in
Speaker 1: the movie is playing on It's Mission Impossible too. I
Speaker 1: think right where they've got Dmitri or whatever his name
Speaker 1: is in the hospital bed and they're showing them like,
Speaker 1: here's what happened while you were out, And then they
Speaker 1: do the same thing with Kevin Durant where it's the
Speaker 1: we set this fake news report up and this is
Speaker 1: a few days afterwards. And then yeah, I completely agree
Speaker 1: with that whole speech that it gives about how Duran
Speaker 1: gets out and becomes this Instagram person and he's the
Speaker 1: guy who does this, but then there's another guy and
Speaker 1: he ends up being so depressed, Like I love that
Speaker 1: whole rant that he goes on. But then the multiple
Speaker 1: did you get that boys kind of thing over and
Speaker 1: over again with all the walls falling down. I thought
Speaker 1: that was really good.
Speaker 4: Priscilla Presley shows up in the UFCC. Oh, she's a
Speaker 4: cutaway when they're showing Liam Neeson's blurred penis. Oh wow,
Speaker 4: she's cut one of the She's the cutaway that they
Speaker 4: show of her watching the television and watching O's Okay.
Speaker 1: I noticed that they did the cutaway. I didn't recognize her.
Speaker 1: I didn't get like the whole UFC thing very well,
Speaker 1: Like if there are things in there that I'm supposed
Speaker 1: to know about these fighters or whatever.
Speaker 4: There's some UFC like personalities are in the like are
Speaker 4: on commentary, like Michael Bisping is one of the people
Speaker 4: that's doing commentary, and he's a real fighter. I'm actually,
Speaker 4: you know what, because I don't think either one of
Speaker 4: y'all have watched it, but I have so I can
Speaker 4: mention it. I'm glad that this wasn't a cameo fest,
Speaker 4: because Happy Gilmore Too was like a massive cameo fest
Speaker 4: to the point where it's like distracting. And I didn't
Speaker 4: dislike that movie. I actually enjoyed it more than I
Speaker 4: thought I was going to But the thing I disliked
Speaker 4: about it was how much of it was just like
Speaker 4: cameo after cameo, to the point where it's like, there's
Speaker 4: it almost feels like the movie has nothing else going
Speaker 4: for it at times other than just like, look at
Speaker 4: all these people that Adam Sandler is friends with, And
Speaker 4: I'm glad that this movie doesn't traffic in like cameo
Speaker 4: after cameo, because that's not what this franchise was about.
Speaker 4: We got the weird Al cameo in the first movie,
Speaker 4: and then in the second movie, and then in the
Speaker 4: third movie, but that was a reoccurring gag because of
Speaker 4: the first movie, they had weird Al and they had
Speaker 4: all these other people, like the longer the Naked Gun
Speaker 4: movies went on. I think by the third one it
Speaker 4: feels that way because they're at the Oscars, but it
Speaker 4: feels like it's a little bit of a narrative cheat
Speaker 4: because they're at the Oscars. But yeah, I was just
Speaker 4: glad that there's like only a handful of cameos in
Speaker 4: this movie, like Cody Rhodes or Priscilla Presley or Dave Batista.
Speaker 4: But it's not just like every two seconds it's someone
Speaker 4: famous that just I really love Naked Gun and I
Speaker 4: wanted to be part.
Speaker 2: Of it, like nobody cares, Like Cody Rhodes passed me
Speaker 2: by because I have no idea who that guy.
Speaker 4: Is, which is honestly fine, Like that's kind of the
Speaker 4: way a cameo should work.
Speaker 2: Just the bartender who got his face smashed in, I
Speaker 2: thought at first he was Casper dien Asprebendine. I knew
Speaker 2: I was saying it wrong, and I wanted more from
Speaker 2: that commentator. Who was when we see him, he's like,
Speaker 2: my wife got all dressed up tonight. She knew I
Speaker 2: was going out. Why was she get so dressed up?
Speaker 2: I was really helped.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, now I see Priscilla Presley, all right. I
Speaker 1: thought that was actually Catherine O'Hara when I saw it yesterday,
Speaker 1: because it's got two seconds that she's on screen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's that's why I couldn't even remember. I'm like,
Speaker 2: I know she's in there for a flash, but I
Speaker 2: don't know the context.
Speaker 4: I also do find it amusing that the movie forces
Speaker 4: Liam Neeson at one point to be non lethal, because
Speaker 4: I'm not sure he ever kills anybody in this movie.
Speaker 4: They hint at him killing people because they do that
Speaker 4: whole like you locked up an entire McDonald's because they
Speaker 4: wouldn't serve you freedom Friest, but he didn't kill those people.
Speaker 4: In Naked Gun, Frank Dreben kills a couple people not intentionally,
Speaker 4: like the guy who falls into the hot Dog vat,
Speaker 4: like he swings at him and he misses. Carda Moldumond
Speaker 4: kind of kills himself. But there is that scene in
Speaker 4: Naked Gun where they're like, when I see five weirdos
Speaker 4: trusted togas in a park stabbinger, guy, I shoot the past.
Speaker 4: That was Shakespeare in the Park. They were great actors,
Speaker 4: Like when they have MI like that, like it hints
Speaker 4: at the fact that this guy is like really inept,
Speaker 4: and we never get the sense in this movie that's
Speaker 4: ever the case with Liam Neeson, which I think is
Speaker 4: a welcome change, because again they have to traffic in
Speaker 4: the fact that this guy in every other movie he's
Speaker 4: in is actually an action stone and he's not just
Speaker 4: pretending to be one, which I think again for me,
Speaker 4: is one of the smartest bits of casting in the
Speaker 4: movie is just casting a guy who does actually do this,
Speaker 4: not casting against type. Because nobody would believe Leslie Nielsen
Speaker 4: could actually do action oriented scenes.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I love the whole bit at the end with
Speaker 1: all of the clips that are coming everywhere and the
Speaker 1: one kid who loses his tooth and the tooth goes
Speaker 1: into Frank's gun and then he shoots the tooth back
Speaker 1: into his mouth. That's where I'm like, this is really
Speaker 1: fucking clever, and there are some really good bits to this,
Speaker 1: even though I felt like the ending went on for
Speaker 1: a little too long, but it's just filled with a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of great bits. Fucking owl coming back, that's perfect.
Speaker 1: Love it. And to see that visual, to see the
Speaker 1: visual of him holding onto an owl being carried through
Speaker 1: the streets with the moon behind him, I was like,
Speaker 1: this reminds me of Kung Fury, which is, to me
Speaker 1: one of the best movies ever made period.
Speaker 4: End of sentence, And I agree, like, I think this
Speaker 4: movie really shines when it leans further into the absurd.
Speaker 4: I think it just was afraid of alienating the mainstream audience.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I feel that way too, And I don't.
Speaker 4: Think the movie alienated the mainstream audience. Like I had
Speaker 4: friends texting me asking me about this movie. If like
Speaker 4: if I was going to see it, and then once
Speaker 4: I saw it what I thought of it, and I
Speaker 4: was like, this is fucking weird, Like I it's been
Speaker 4: a while since that happened, and normally if it does happen,
Speaker 4: it's not with something like this, which is just like again,
Speaker 4: like ostensibly a comedy, but I don't know, Like there's
Speaker 4: a level of polish to this movie that does make it.
Speaker 4: We've talked a lot about the comedy of the movie,
Speaker 4: but movies rather well shot. There's a lot of interesting lighting,
Speaker 4: Like there's a lot of blue and red, like it
Speaker 4: looks like it could be a John Wick movie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's what they were striving for.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and they nailed it. And I appreciate it because,
Speaker 4: like again, in a post john Wick universe, where John
Speaker 4: Wick is one of the most popular, if not the
Speaker 4: most popular action movie out there, you could make a
Speaker 4: movie that's a John Wick send up of its own right,
Speaker 4: And I Naked Gun didn't have to do it. But
Speaker 4: if Naked Gun's gonna exist in twenty twenty five, it's
Speaker 4: almost impossible to not address it.
Speaker 2: I appreciated that it wasn't flat TV lighting.
Speaker 1: No, there's some great looking stuff. The bank robbery looks
Speaker 1: like fucking from the dark.
Speaker 2: Knight returns playing with shadows even in his office when
Speaker 2: she first shows up. It's a little nourish, and.
Speaker 1: The silhouette gag for the door or taking the chair
Speaker 1: at the end, the whole fight around the fountain, when
Speaker 1: we've got Dave Bautista that looks like a million bucks.
Speaker 1: It really did do a great job shooting this. This
Speaker 1: does look like a real movie. It doesn't look so
Speaker 1: completely flat. Just keep going back to those fucking Friedberger
Speaker 1: and Seltzer things. You guys mentioned Epic Movie and yeah,
Speaker 1: those movies looked like they were made for five dollars.
Speaker 4: Well, they were written for five dollars too. That's the thing.
Speaker 4: Those movies don't have any production value to them in
Speaker 4: any substantive way. I think about Epic Movie or Disaster
Speaker 4: Movie or the later scary movies, I'm like, who was
Speaker 4: seeing these movies the same people that are being expected
Speaker 4: to see these movies.
Speaker 1: I was the one seeing those movies, most of those
Speaker 1: in the theater, which is I'm really a shite.
Speaker 4: I saw Smoking Aces and Epic Movie in a double feature. Wow,
Speaker 4: yeah at the theater. Yeah, bull talk about a fate
Speaker 4: worse than death.
Speaker 1: I think I saw every scary movie except for two,
Speaker 1: which I'm so glad because that one was the worst
Speaker 1: one for me in the theater.
Speaker 4: Scary Movie three is a good one. And I think
Speaker 4: that this movie, this movie, like it looks more like
Speaker 4: a Scary Movie three than it does a Naked Gun three.
Speaker 4: Like this, this movie knows what came before it and
Speaker 4: chooses to embrace it but also reject it. And that's
Speaker 4: what's important when you make a movie like this is
Speaker 4: you have to be willing to do your own thing,
Speaker 4: but also people are gonna expect certain things from you
Speaker 4: if you're making a naked gun movie.
Speaker 1: Against my better judgment, we should probably watch Spyhart sometime
Speaker 1: and talk about it, just because that's a tie to
Speaker 1: me between the zaz stuff and the Friedberg Seltzer stuff,
Speaker 1: because that's I can't remember if it's Friedberg senior or
Speaker 1: Seltzer senior. And that's also got weird l doing the
Speaker 1: title song, and it's Scott Leslie Nielsen as your main character,
Speaker 1: and it's like, what is this saying? It feels like
Speaker 1: it was a say passing of the torch, because basically
Speaker 1: they took the torch and just pissed on it and
Speaker 1: put the fire out. For all of those Friedberg and
Speaker 1: Seltzer movies, but it felt like, oh, yeah, here, I'll
Speaker 1: set up my sons for or my son and his
Speaker 1: asshole friend for success. One of these days, I'd love
Speaker 1: to talk with those guys and just be like, what
Speaker 1: is your fucking problem?
Speaker 4: What is your major malfunction? What about wrongfully accused?
Speaker 1: Oh boy, I've never seen that one either more.
Speaker 4: Two thousand and one A space whatever the travesty is
Speaker 4: that one?
Speaker 2: That?
Speaker 1: Did I see that one? No? I saw the creature
Speaker 1: wasn't nice. That's I get that one. Mixed up the
Speaker 1: credits for this We already mentioned the freeze frame gag
Speaker 1: at the end, but I was paying attention to the credits.
Speaker 1: There are gag credits in here, but it takes a
Speaker 1: lot to get to them. They're not peppered throughout as
Speaker 1: they used to be in some of these Zaz movies.
Speaker 1: I didn't notice funny jokes until they got to the
Speaker 1: set dressers and they talked about this dressing, that dressing.
Speaker 1: Then they said salad dressing, and they had French vinigrette,
Speaker 1: thousand Island and something else. And I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, there are a few things in here. They
Speaker 1: had at one point Netflix's password, and they had a
Speaker 1: password in there, but it was just very small, very subtle,
Speaker 1: and if anything, I thought they should have done it
Speaker 1: a little bit more, especially I'm expecting it, but I'm
Speaker 1: also hoping like that people get to see weird al
Speaker 1: at the end.
Speaker 2: I had to leave suddenly, so I missed everything after
Speaker 2: the very first credit, and I was curious if there
Speaker 2: was an end credit scene.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's just so there's the gag with the freeze frame.
Speaker 1: They do something else before the weird al other than
Speaker 1: the credits. I don't remember, do you remember, Chris?
Speaker 4: I think, so.
Speaker 1: Okay, So it's just occasional funny credits and then we
Speaker 1: do the weird al bit at the very end. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it was me and one other dude stuck around in
Speaker 1: the theater to see that.
Speaker 4: And you know what's really funny to speak to the
Speaker 4: Pam Anderson of it all. Pam Anderson was in Superhero
Speaker 4: which is insane because to even speak to a crazier
Speaker 4: trend here, naked gun has not been in our lives
Speaker 4: since the nineties, since the third one, so many movies,
Speaker 4: so many comedy trends have come and gone, Like like
Speaker 4: Superhero movie, which is it a movie that came out
Speaker 4: in two thousand and eight. That's a parody of superhero
Speaker 4: movies in two thousand and eight before superhero movies ostensibly
Speaker 4: even came out in a lot of ways for a
Speaker 4: lot of people, it's interesting that naked gun is still
Speaker 4: allowed to be what it is in this day and age,
Speaker 4: post all these other things. I think it actually goes
Speaker 4: to show that naked gun I think as a formula
Speaker 4: still works rather well if you give it the respect
Speaker 4: that it deserves and not just try to force topical gags.
Speaker 4: Is I think the issue with those those like later
Speaker 4: Friedberg Seltzer movies' is like, oh, here's Miles Fisher, Tom Cruise, Yeah,
Speaker 4: like this Tom yeah.
Speaker 1: Member from two weeks ago?
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, Tom Cruise jumping on the couch, Like like
Speaker 4: do we need to see this in a movie?
Speaker 1: Like I imagine somebody watching those movies today would be like,
Speaker 1: what the hell is this referring to?
Speaker 4: We might be that way if we watch them, Like
Speaker 4: if we we were to sit down and watch those
Speaker 4: movies in reverse from the most recent one to the
Speaker 4: original one with something like scary movie, like I guarantee
Speaker 4: you there will be references to shit, we're just like why,
Speaker 4: Like one of those movies, I don't remember which one,
Speaker 4: I think it's Epic Movie has a reference to Johnny
Speaker 4: Depp playing Willy Wonka.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, that's Crispin Glover in that role.
Speaker 4: Who the fuck would remember that in this day and age, like, oh,
Speaker 4: Johnny Depp played Willy Wonka, Like yeah, yeah, he did.
Speaker 4: Okay to what end well?
Speaker 2: And they referenced a lot of commercials that were popular
Speaker 2: at the time and think stuff that you forget after
Speaker 2: a little while, not it doesn't even take years to
Speaker 2: forget about.
Speaker 1: The closest you get with that is like an airplane
Speaker 1: when the woman's saying, oh, he never asked for a
Speaker 1: second cup of my coffee. But that's not bad. That's
Speaker 1: not a terrible thing that they had that.
Speaker 2: I think we had to explain that bit to Chris
Speaker 2: because he's younger and we grew up seeing those commercials
Speaker 2: like nightly they were pretty ubiquitous on TV.
Speaker 4: But yes, out.
Speaker 2: Totally out of date now or even five or six
Speaker 2: years later. But even when the first airplane came out,
Speaker 2: they weren't expecting repeat viewings thirty years later on a
Speaker 2: thing called VHS or laser disc or DVD or anything
Speaker 2: like that. Not thinking of timeliness so much. You are
Speaker 2: people not going to get this anymore? But cares When
Speaker 2: are they going to watch this again?
Speaker 1: Well, come back to the theater.
Speaker 4: Speaking of airplane, we should take this opportunity to mention Mike,
Speaker 4: you're on the airplane too, blu Ray.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, very excited for that. I love that whole
Speaker 1: thing where I was so pissed off when I was
Speaker 1: talking to you guys, just like I have one of
Speaker 1: those fucking assholes on there doing that commentary, And then
Speaker 1: I reached out to Keno and I was like, I
Speaker 1: should be on this.
Speaker 4: I've talked damn that fucking yeah exactly. Why would you
Speaker 4: get another fucking asshole if you could get this.
Speaker 1: This asshole right here baby? Yeah. Yeah. To go back
Speaker 1: to Pam Anderson, Yeah, I think she's fantastic in this.
Speaker 1: I really like that they don't make her up and
Speaker 1: just really try to make her. She's an age appropriate
Speaker 1: love interest to me. She might actually be too young
Speaker 1: for Liam Neeson, but I found her to be hilarious.
Speaker 1: Apparently she was up for the role that Anna Nicole
Speaker 1: Smith played in the last one, and now I'm like, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: show me that. I would like to have seen that version.
Speaker 1: And Nicole Smith I thought was fantastic in there because
Speaker 1: she could play dumb like nobody's business. But I really
Speaker 1: think that Pam Anderson a huge barbed wire fan over here.
Speaker 1: I think it says she's great and super happy to
Speaker 1: see her doing full fledged comedy.
Speaker 4: The most surprising thing about this movie for me is
Speaker 4: how good she is, not because I didn't think she
Speaker 4: would be good, but because I haven't seen her in
Speaker 4: enough things really to have an opinion about her. But
Speaker 4: if she can do this kind of comedy and can
Speaker 4: live in this space, it doesn't take herself super serious,
Speaker 4: which would seem to me she doesn't. I love how
Speaker 4: good Pam Anderson is in this movie because I wasn't
Speaker 4: concerned about how good Leo Nson was going to be.
Speaker 4: Priscilla Presley is as good as Liam Neeson is in
Speaker 4: those movies, like she is as funny as he is.
Speaker 4: There are a lot of moments in those movies that
Speaker 4: work because of the chemistry of the two of them.
Speaker 4: And I would say the same here, like Pam Anderson
Speaker 4: is as good as Liam Neeson is.
Speaker 1: Now. That makes me wonder how much she was in
Speaker 1: the whole Borat thing. And I'm just like, she had
Speaker 1: to have been completely on board.
Speaker 4: For that, I would assume, so I think so.
Speaker 1: I think yeah, because I think she's got a good
Speaker 1: sense of humor about herself too.
Speaker 4: She's been in the public sphere for so long at
Speaker 4: this point.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm trying to think it back to when
Speaker 1: Baywatch first came on, and then she was even a
Speaker 1: tool time girl for uh he was on Home Improvement.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was her original gig.
Speaker 1: And that was a long time ago, I know, because
Speaker 1: I'm that old.
Speaker 4: Good on her as well for saying I'm not gonna
Speaker 4: do makeup anymore. Like good on her. That's a big
Speaker 4: deal in this industry, and like good on her, good
Speaker 4: for her, like fuck them.
Speaker 1: And there's a whole thing about breast implants too, where
Speaker 1: she's like, yeah, I really shouldn't have gotten these. I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's your fucking body. Do what you want to do.
Speaker 4: I'm hopeful for the future of naked gun. I actually
Speaker 4: want there to be more naked gun movies. I want
Speaker 4: to be able to buy a popcorn bucket for this
Speaker 4: movie that's not eighty dollars because I wasn't able to
Speaker 4: get it in the fucking theaters because I didn't get
Speaker 4: the big bran beaver. I want the big brown beaver.
Speaker 4: I want Wenona's big brown beaver.
Speaker 1: Even that has nothing to do with sex. That's just
Speaker 1: about a beaver.
Speaker 4: Well less claypool. Slap at the base and we're good.
Speaker 4: Nothing beautiful beaver.
Speaker 2: What can you say?
Speaker 1: Overall? I would highly recommend this to people to check out.
Speaker 1: Don't expect exactly the same as the Naked Gun series,
Speaker 1: but expect something else that's pretty darn funny. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and wrap up, Mark Begley. Where can
Speaker 1: people find more of your fun stuff and only the
Speaker 1: fun stuff, none of the boring.
Speaker 2: Stuff, only the fun stuff.
Speaker 1: Oh god?
Speaker 2: Now you can find my two shows wake Up Heavy
Speaker 2: and Cambridge and Sean Ober at weirdingwaymedia dot com. How
Speaker 2: about you, Chris Stashu.
Speaker 4: You find all the stuff that I work on at
Speaker 4: weirdingwaymedia dot com, which is named for Doune David Lynch
Speaker 4: is doing more specifically, rest in peace, David Lynch, So
Speaker 4: weird thing that happened since the last time. We a
Speaker 4: lot of things that happened since the last.
Speaker 1: Time we recorded this show.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's where you can find everything that I work on,
Speaker 4: including the original run of this show, which we talked about,
Speaker 4: the entire original Police Squad TV show. We talked about
Speaker 4: Airplane as well, did we not like we did?
Speaker 2: We did a lot of stuffn films that, Yeah, that
Speaker 2: prompted us to do I always forget the title of
Speaker 2: the one with Vl Kilmer top Secret.
Speaker 1: Top Secret, did that as a crossover with the projection
Speaker 1: both Yeah, and then I'd highly recommend that people check
Speaker 1: out our Airplane two episode as well, which was a
Speaker 1: lot of fun.
Speaker 4: And technically, if you're looking for something that has the
Speaker 4: three of us that continues the three of us talking
Speaker 4: about comedies or quote unquote comedies, the Chase, the Chasing
Speaker 4: Chevy Chase podcast where we talk about Chevy Chase movies
Speaker 4: once a month and we're almost at the end of
Speaker 4: that show at this point now, which is crazy in
Speaker 4: and of itself. So that's where you can find me
Speaker 4: and all the things that I work on with these two.
Speaker 1: So what about you, Mike, Yeah, same thing Weirdowa medias
Speaker 1: dot com, where you can find everything we do. The
Speaker 1: last one of these Police Squad and Color episodes came
Speaker 1: out March fifteenth, twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4: So I hate that. I hate that. It feels like.
Speaker 1: A lot longer, doesn't it. That's only yes, specifically for.
Speaker 2: Me two and years though, Yeah, that I was thinking, Okay, man, No.
Speaker 4: I know we didn't record anything in twenty four for
Speaker 4: this because we had talked about it, like offline, We're like, oh,
Speaker 4: we'll do something with Naked Gun finally comes out. But
Speaker 4: that was like us just kicking the can in twenty four.
Speaker 2: But we knew back then that it was coming, and
Speaker 2: it was with Liam Neeson that was one of the
Speaker 2: main rumors.
Speaker 4: Towards the end of the show. Yeah, I listened to
Speaker 4: a couple of the episodes that we did towards the
Speaker 4: end of the show. We talked. We start talking about
Speaker 4: the fact that like it had been confirmed, they confirmed
Speaker 4: it while we were literally doing the show. It's kind
Speaker 4: of like with what's going on with Rankin on Bond,
Speaker 4: which you can find at mine and Mike's Patreon. They've
Speaker 4: like started announcing things for the next James Bond while
Speaker 4: we're doing the show like they were announcing naked gun stuff,
Speaker 4: because we started recording that show in like twenty one,
Speaker 4: and it's been even longer since we started that show.
Speaker 4: We started that show in like twenty one.
Speaker 1: Twenty two. You're talking about Raking on Bond or Police.
Speaker 4: Squad, Police Squad.
Speaker 2: We got through it fast, though, because we recorded weekly
Speaker 2: on that and we recorded three episodes of the show
Speaker 2: each time.
Speaker 4: But it came out it ended. Our show ended in
Speaker 4: twenty three, is what you said, Mike.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it started December seventeen, twenty twenty two. It
Speaker 1: we only did nine episodes of it. It feels like
Speaker 1: we did so much for it. I think it was
Speaker 1: because we were reading the scripts, we were listening to
Speaker 1: the commentaries all that stuff. So it was trying to
Speaker 1: do a lot of research in a short amount of time.
Speaker 4: So what you're saying is a show needs a reboot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, why not. That was a lot of fun
Speaker 1: to do and I'm glad that we're coming back and
Speaker 1: doing this. I can't say final episode because hopefully we'll
Speaker 1: come back when the sequel comes out.
Speaker 2: There might be sequels, yeah, hopefully. Fingers Crossed all based
Speaker 2: on Money Boys, so it does well, they'll make more.
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