The Onion Reviews ‘The Naked Gun’
The Onion Film Standard: Our film critic reviews The Naked Gun (2025), which rejects the dark, gritty tone of its predecessor and bafflingly opts for comedy instead. Watch the #NakedGun, now playing only in theatres. #paramountpartner
@Jacko0_0
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
This movie was hilarious. As always miserable people with their own lives hate everything though…..
@pfranks75
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
The best thing to come out of this movie was Liam and Pamela became a real life couple!
@psommorr
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
I'm shocked he didn't comment on the previous film's commentary on the ethics of the code of silence when officers mess up. Like the scenes where Frank Drebin Sr. keeps crashing into something while parking and yet he doesn't have charges brought up against him at any point. Even with all the witnesses, he tells them, "There's nothing to see here." and since he's a police officer, no one had the guts to call the police on him.
@FrameByFrameExtra
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
This is just how actual people talk about Robocop and Starship Troopers.
@john2914
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
Does anyone wanr to watch Liam Neeson? Cannot stand to even look at him.
@cammer68oliver2
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
Personally, I loved this newer version. I almost fell outta my seat at the theater I was laughing so hard!
@soulvigilante
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
Oh, the indignity of throwing out the gritty realism of the originals!
@lukemorgan6166
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
Jokes aside, the movie is awful because it's way too on the nose
Everything is literal and you can see every joke a mile away
@dante224real1
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
that dive was soreley missed but what a good replacement main character choice havinng darkman playing the strapping sex machine 007 ripoff
@ravinderdasila9334
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
I thought the superman director would be running naked in the movie
@AncientRylanor69
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
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@danielmoore94
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
Leslie Neilson is a king
@Ellifiknow
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
I don't like comedies. Or people who laugh. Or people who laugh at comedies. Or people who complain a lot. About comedies. Or laughing.
@CantankerousOldMan
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
I wish they would have subtitled the movie "Son of a Drebin."
@Buckshot333
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
I've only barely even heard of these movies let alone the reboot, but oh my god this is so damn wild lmfao 😂😂😂
@HobbesHobbies
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
it was horrible with old boomer tropes that weren't even funny in their era of the 1970s, "you know the 70s, when men were men and women were dogs and you hardly saw black people and if you did you just had them arrested or something!" FOH with your mysogynistic tropes masquerading as comedy and only funny to the half dead dudes in nursing homes.
@FunLittleMovies
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
At first, I didn’t get that. This was a subtle and sarcastic parody of a real review. But then I did and laughed my ass off.
@Thrifty032781
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
Hollywood really doesn't respect its forebears these days, and it is both sad and enraging.
@chasingamurderer
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
I tbink you would have played this character better Peter. Thanks for the laugh
@tssteelx
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
Chillidogs. 🙂
@mikemcconeghy4658
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
Wow. I actually suffered gastro-intestinal distress while he was talking about it. It was definitely more dramatic than funny.
Anonymous
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
Is Liam Nielson the real son of Lesley Nielson or it just a coincidink
@dexlab7539
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
Dumb
@lotsofsports2251
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
PK Rosenthal used to have funny reviews. Guess i'll watch the JAWS or Shining review again.
@TheRockinDonkey
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
I don't understand why they had to recast Frank. Where's Leslie Nielsen?
@DavidHulse-gy3ys
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
Taken 4 is looking LIT!🔥
@JM-mh1pp
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
One reviewer I always trust.
@papagiorgio6224
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
Rosenthal bats 1000
@Homer-OJ-Simpson
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
Naked Gun 1988 was a gritty police drama with “naked” in the title referring to the dramatic RAW (naked) look at the police world (gun)
Naked Gun 2025 was a slap stick comedy with “naked” referring to how nudity can be funny and “gun” rhyming with fun.
@wildandbarefoot
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
Liam should reprise his comedic trillogy "Taken" franchise. And who can forget his lampoon role as the protagonist in Schindlers List. 😅
@surfinmuso37
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
There is a reason Liam Neeson has never done comedy movies…he not funny.
Why did he choose this? His movies are just awful these days
@Alisa-utube
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
Thank you. I appreciated the deep analysis and display of genuine emotions while comparing the two films.
@kittenburger_prime
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
You fit like 50% of the movie's jokes into a 3 minute series of clips.
@AT_BASE
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
Oh shit this guy is still around HELL YEAH
@old.not.too.grumpy.
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
As far as remakes where realising they would never find an actor to replace the original, so they cast any American Irish and British joint citizen that just happened to be free to play.
The film stands out in this niche genre for being the first where, after ten minutes, I was wondering when it was going to end, and after 45 minutes I was wondering when the jokes were going to get funny.
The film was very nostalgic for me. I sat thinking if, as I did in my college days, got stoned, I probably would have apreachiated the film
@GreenhornPhototaker
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
LOL
@SimulatedNews
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
“Patch note #57: Humans now 12% more likely to laugh at my jokes. Testing in progress…”
@maverickdelta
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
To be seriously fair, this happened with Dragnet, where the serious TV show was translated into a commedic movie.
@notarobot6742
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
I'm just a girl, with gastrointenstinal issue, trying to hold down a job!
@chippysteve4524
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
It wasn't red and there were no rocks in it.
@chippysteve4524
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
Daddy is gone.He can't hurt you any more.
@chippysteve4524
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
I'm disappointed that they cut out all the footage of OJ SImpson being chased by the police.Just because he is black! It's political correctness gone mad.
@DrKillerLetsPlay
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
Though of course Im worried about the premisse of this film, this time I will hold my oppinion until I see the final product, cause is so wierd the Idea to turn this into "another spoof comedy", but I do belive in the people bihind the project and Im curios how can they hold the heavy international subject that so bravelly the first movie touch, and meaby this time through comedy, touch on current events sentitive for all of us. A wierd direction indeed, but if any team can pull it off is this team.
@tom-kz9pb
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
How disappointing that Naked Gun was only PG-13, with only partial nudity, when the title built expectations of full frontal and dorsal nudity.
@michiganmajin7284
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
You just can't please anybody, can you? When a Naked Gun reboot tries to do something different, people say they wanted to a serious cop drama like the original. If they made the reboot a gritty dark character study, like the original Naked Gun was known for, the critics complain that's more of the same. Nobody knows what they want anymore
@Jebu911
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
Why did hollywood use the necronomicon to bring back actors before but now they suddenly dont have enough people to sacrifice to bring back legendary leslie nielsen to do some fart drama.
@babyinacorner
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
i only get my film reviews from rotten onions
@lewissmith6086
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
I'm so stoked your back
@GunSpyEnthusiast
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
" The actor playing the main character is Liam Neeson "
Damn, that's a funny joke. It's like the actor was made for the role. * breaths out * Another classic Onion punchline.
wait
@johnrutledge8267
September 14, 2025 at 5:19 pm
Oh yes – irony … 😂😂😂
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