The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult
Cast
Leslie Nielsen as Frank Drebin
Priscilla Presley as Jane Spencer Drebin
George Kennedy as Ed Hocken
Fred Ward as Rocco Dillon
O.J. Simpson as Nordberg
Directed by
Peter Segal
The third and final movie of the series, The Naked Gun. In this movie, Frank and Jane have been married, and live together in a house. Frank's retired, but he soon has to go onto another case from Police Squad. Jane hates this and leaves him while Frank is thrown into jail to discover the doings of Rocco Dillon. That's where the plot ensues.
Rater #1
5/10. This was not as entertaining as I thought it would be. It was a lot less funnier than the previous one, and a whole lot less funny than the first one. The siren in the beginning of the movie gets smooshed, so we all know that there will not be any more Naked Gun movies out ever again. The dream set up in the beginning of the movie was kind of weird and yet funny. Nordberg plucks babies out of midair as they are launched from their carriages when they reach the bottom of the stairs, and Frank is shooting gone crazy postal workers.
Ed Hocken is very funny. I like his role a lot, the kind of stupid yet smart police officer (then again, they're all stupid). I didn't realize that O.J. could still act. Didn't he become a fellon or something? I think if he had just stuck to the movie business, he would have been great.
This movies run time was very short, 84 minutes. I was pretty surprised because the other movies topped 90 minutes. The movie itself probably ran about 75 minutes because of all the previews. Anyway, this movie probably failed horribly at the box office when it came out. Stick with the first one. It was a lot more entertaining.
Rater #2
5/10. Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker made a mistake when making The Naked Gun 33
1/3: The Smell of Fear: they made it. They had success with their
Airplane! series and the Hot Shots! series, both which had one
sequel. However, for some reason, instead of creating another
Airplane! sequel (which would have been a riot), they decided to
create a Naked Gun sequel. Naked Gun 33 1/3 suffers from sequelitis.
While the first sequel, Naked Gun 2 �, seemed as fresh as the
original, this one basically relies on the climactic ending scene (as
were in the first two) to make you love it.
Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) is newly retired from Police Squad and
six months married to Jane Spencer-Drebin (Priscilla Presley). She
wants kids, while he's trying to figure out what to do now that he is
retired. Ed (George Kennedy) and Nordberg (O.J. Simpson) need Frank
to do one last job for Police Squad, and he takes it. Jane doesn't
like that and leaves him. Now Frank is undercover to unearth a
terrorist operation.
There's one major thing that separates this movie from the other two
Naked Gun movies: it's not that funny. The first two were almost non-
stop laughs, while this one only had one or two really funny scenes.
At times it was humorous, but this didn't feel like the other ones.
This one was almost a parody of itself instead of police films. It
relied too much on parodies and references, too. There are takeoffs
of The Untouchables and Thelma and Louise, and even Alice from The
Brady Bunch shows up. This only had one or two moments of TRUE ZAZ
humor: when there's something so wacky and from left-field happens
you can't help but laugh. Also, when someone says something, it's
taken literally. There wasn't much of that humor here; in fact, the
only instance I remember was when Frank was eating the paper (watch
the movie to understand). Overall, the only reason you should see
Naked Gun 33 1/3 is if you've seen the first two and want to complete
the trilogy.
Rater #3
Has Not Seen Movie.
Rater #4
Has Not Seen Movie.
Rated PG-13
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