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Naked Gun Trilogy - 1988, 1991, 1994 "Like a midget at a urinal I was going have to stay on my toes"
"Like a blind man at an orgy I was going have to feel things out."
"The truth hurts, oh sure maybe not as much as jumping on a bike without a seat, but it hurts"
Meh, I cheated and put 3 movies in one. They are all basically the same movie. Might do it a few more times in this countdown.
Leslie Nielsen is a God damn legend at delivering comedy lines deadpan. He is the whole reason these movies even remotely work. Even if the lines are not particularly funny Nielsen makes them work with his delivery. I remember when I was like 12 or so watching these movies in my room at like 2 am and waking up my parents from laughing. Granted they were funnier back then but they still pack some laughs now. Also it's incredibly ironic to watch OJ Simpson be lovable with what would happen later in his life
. And Jesus did Anna Nicole look amazing in the 3rd one
I know the movies themselves are not very good but they were spawned off Airplane! And these movies inspired, unfortunately in most cases, all those scary movie spoofs and the terrible ones to follow. So in a way it was kind of an innovative genre in Hollywood. Something to be said for that
. These movies will always hold a soft spot for me. As you can tell I like comedies and if you can make me laugh you have a good chance of making this countdown
Director - David Zucker & Peter Segal
Best Performance - Leslie Nielsen as Frank Drebin
Rotten Tomatoes Score - 87%, 57% and 54% respectively.
Factoid - With "Weird Al" Yankovic's and Jeff Wright's appearances in these movies, they are the only actors, outside of the main characters, to appear in all three movies of the franchise.
Stock In Countdown - Sinker