Movie: The Naked Gun (2025) Caution Spoiler Alert

 

The Naked Gun

Came out; 2025

Time; 1 hours 25 Minutes

Watched: Paramount Plus

Rated: PG-13 for crude/sexual material, violence/bloody images and brief partial nudity

IMDB Rating; 6.5/10

Rotten Tomatoes:

Tomato Meter 88%

Popcorn Meter 73%

Caution; Spoiler Alert

Staring;

Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin Jr

Pamela Anderson as Beth Davenport

Paul Walter Hauser as Ed Hocken Jr

Danny Huston as Richard Cane

CCH Pounder as Chief Davis

Kevin Durand as Sig Gustafson

Liza Koshy as Detective Barnes

Eddie Yu as Detective Park

Michael Beasley as Detective Taylor

Moses Jones as Not Nordberg Jr

Story Line;

Only one man has the particular set of skills - to lead Police Squad and save the world

Thoughts:

This was perfect. It was honestly one of the best “remakes” I've ever watched. The slap stick seriousness that Leslie Nielsen was the master at Liam Neeson does to perfection.

It obviously pretty goofy but takes itself seriously which is what made the originals magical.

It's also the perfect length as it's not too long, it's just right

CAUTION; Spoiler Alert

Lieutenant Frank Drebin Jr. (Liam Neeson) of the Los Angeles Police Department (L.A.P.D.) Police Squad dispatches a gang of bank robbers while disguised as a schoolgirl. Unbeknownst to him, this was a distraction to steal a gadget called the "P.L.O.T. Device" from a safe deposit box. Police Chief Davis (C.C.H. Pounder) reassigns Drebin when his over-the-top law enforcement becomes a legal liability. While playing tribute to his father Frank Drebin Sr., he prays to him to send him an owl as a sign of his approval.

Drebin investigates software engineer Simon's deadly car crash, deeming it suicide, but notices a matchbook at the scene. Simon's sister Beth (Pamela Anderson), a crime novelist, argues otherwise, but Drebin discourages her from investigating further. Drebin finds Richard Cane (Danny Huston), Simon's wealthy employer at Edentech, at the company's tech expo. After they mutually appreciate the Black Eyed Peas, Cane donates a self-driving electric car to Police Squad - which wrecks havoc with Drebin behind the wheel - and recommends his personal nightclub. Drebin notices the matchbook found at Simon's crash site has the same logo as the nightclub.

Cane privately demonstrates how he will use the stolen P.L.O.T. ("Primordial Law of Toughness") Device to revert humans back to their barbarian nature, culling the population of his fellow billionaires, who will be safely insulated inside a bunker. While investigating one of the bank robbers, Drebin learns about the deposit box, which was Simon's, connecting the two cases. At Cane's club, Beth distracts Cane with improvised, atrocious scat singing while Drebin fights many goons to access security footage, discovering that Simon met discreetly with a journalist. Davis suspends Drebin for insubordination. Beth stays with the demoralized Drebin, and he considers finally moving on from memories of his late wife. Drebin and Beth spend a romantic weekend at an alpine lodge. They have a threesome with a magical, living snowman, but the snowman turns murderous after they neglect it.

Drebin finds the murdered journalist and is easily deceived into incriminating himself. He escapes into the electric car, but Cane overrides the controls and attempts to kill Drebin just as he did Simon. Drebin blows out the windshield, but is trapped again by the car driving head-on into balloons, bees, and a replacement windshield. He accidentally activates Clippy (The Office Assistant), who helpfully unlocks the doors. Meanwhile, Police Squad has been decommissioned. Beth reveals that Simon feared the misuse of the P.L.O.T. Device, but Drebin suspects that Beth is using him and angrily leaves her home.

Drebin captures Cane's henchman Gustafson (Kevin Durand) and frightens him into confessing to Cane's plan to activate the P.L.O.T. Device at the New Year's ball drop at a mixed martial arts match. Drebin heads to the match at the Ponzi-scheme.com Arena, equipped with an earpiece that blocks the P.L.O.T. Device inside the New Year's balls. He loses his pants at the balls drop, indecently exposing himself to the entire audience, leading them not to respect his order to evacuate. The P.L.O.T. Device activates, and mindless violence erupts through the entire city. Drebin fights through innocents by ricocheting ejected handgun machines, but cannot catch up with the escaping Cane. His father's spirit arrives as an owl, airlifting Drebin and blinding Cane with feces. Cane folds in agony after one punch to the gut. Beth nearly shoots Cane in revenge, but Drebin talks her down. Drebin and Beth use the P.L.O.T. Device to calm down the crowd and embrace lovingly as Cane is arrested. In the aftermath, Drebin faces investigation by Internal Affairs - actually the name of a tropical resort, where he spends his time with Beth.

In a post-credits scene, "Weird Al" Yankovic performs onstage to an empty bunker.