REVIEW: 'The Naked Gun' Is The Best Theatrically Released Comedy In Ages

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If you are someone who is frustrated that comedies have left the big screen, go watch this opening weekend with as many friends as you can assemble.

This movie is the perfect late reboot. It understands and pays respect to the style that made the originals so hilarious while still forging its own path. While Leslie Nielsen was an irreplaceable star, Liam Neeson’s deadpan is about as close a replacement a s you can find in Hollywood. Pam Anderson is also an A+ fill in for Priscilla Presley, bouncing off Neeson in an eerily familiar way to the original duo .

On top of it being a great reboot, I also think it is an objectively hilarious movie. I can’t imagine a viewer from any demo could sit through this without at least a few belly laughs. My evidence for that is, when our office went to Paramount for a screening of the movie, EVERYBODY was laughing. From all-world hater Frank the Tank who hates everything Hollywood to 20 year old brainrot iPad interns. They were ALL loving it.

This is why I beg you that, if possible, go see this within the first few weeks with the biggest crowd you can find or make. Sharing laughs at the theater is something that has been desperately missing in the last decade of comedies and this movie delivers just that. And I'm not talking half-hearted, nose-exhale "hmph"'s, I'm talking gut-busters.