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The Complete Naked Gun Collection [1988]
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On the DVDs: All three features are anamorphically enhanced 1.78:1 widescreen ratios, with Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. Each disc also has a jovial ensemble commentary featuring co-creator David Zucker with other producers and writers, which is only intermittently informative but is at least intermittently funny, too. --Mark Walker The Naked Gun: The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Naked Gun 33 1/3: All three discs:
RRP: £29.99
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Amazon.co.uk Review
The Naked Gun series must be the only successful big-screen franchise to have been a spin-off from a spectacularly unsuccessful TV series. Although Police Squad went on to become a cult favourite, at the time the American TV network was so unimpressed they only showed four of the six episodes before cancelling it. But Leslie Nielsen's bumbling Lt Frank Drebin just wouldn't go away. Supported in masterly deadpan style by George Kennedy and Priscilla Presley, Nielsen cemented his reputation as a gifted comic actor with The Naked Gun decades after he had first become known as a minor Hollywood leading man (in 1955's Forbidden Planet for example). The first movie appeared in 1988 and spawned two sequels that replayed exactly the same routines: in The Naked Gun series sight gags (some of which are worthy of the Marx Brothers, some not) combine with excruciating puns and lots of toilet humour to follow the same hit formula as the creators' earlier slapstick masterpiece, Airplane. By the third film the formula may have become more than a little overworked, and few including the filmmakers cared much about the increasingly creaky scenarios, but Nielsen's easygoing idiotic charm goes a long way towards saving the day. There are still a lot of laughs to be found in all three Naked Gun movies, even if some of them are the unintentional result of seeing OJ Simpson before notoriety overtook his budding film career.
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Video Description
DVD special features:
Theatrical trailer
Group commentary with David Zucker (director, writer), Robert Weiss (producer) and Peter Tilden (host)
Two theatrical trailers
Group commentary with David Zucker (director, writer), Robert Weiss (producer) and Peter Tilden (host)
Theatrical trailer
Group commentary with David Zucker (producer), Robert Weiss (producer), Peter Segal (director) and Michael Ewing (associate producer)
1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen
Languages: Dolby Digital 5.1 English, German mono
Subtitles: English for the hearing impaired, English, Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish
Commentary subtitles: English, German
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Synopsis
Lieutenant Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) bumbles his way through all three NAKED GUN films, foiling terrorists and dodging danger...well, mostly. This collection contains THE NAKED GUN (1988), NAKED GUN 2 1/2 (1991), and NAKED GUN 33 1/3 (1994). See individual titles for details.
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From the Back Cover
Includes The Naked Gun, The Naked Gun 2 1/2 and The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult.
Frank Drebin, Detective Liutenatnt Police Squad
Review date: 2005-05-06 Rating: 10 out of 10
My favourite scenes.
Did Ludwig know about the boat and if he did then why wasnt it listed and if it was then where was it....and where the hell was I.
It was late and all I wanted was a glass of bosco and to slip between my blankets.....but my night was just beggining.
I Love you to Nordberg.
When I see five men stabbing someone in the parks I kill them, thats my policy. That was a Shakespeare in the Park production of MacBeth, you killed five actors...good actors.
The names Nick "the slasher" McGirk. Whats your Prison number? I'm Unlisted.
Whats the number?
Shes looking pretty bad Frank.
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Reviews
Sheer Naked Goodness
Review date: 2004-11-05 Rating: 10 out of 10
In my opinion naked gun is brilliant, thats pretty vague, but for me it has to be spontaneous humor that gets me, things that you think should go really smoothly but thanks to Frank Drebin often never does. Naked gun is based on the TV series Police Squad, and each film Frank Drebin and his team have to solve a certain crime, and following a strict police code *sarcasm* to solve the crime results in instant laughs.
Ive found with the movies you have to watch them more than once to notice all the gags, or just laugh at the same ones. The actors for all characters are supurb, all actions, expression and talking is done brilliantly. The three movies now sit happily on my DVD rack, I thought it criminal keeping them in the box and not on display for the world to see, or least anyone that enters my room.
Special features are lacking but to be honest they arn't needed it's the film you want, there is a directors commentry with director/writer David Zucker, Producer Robert Weiss, and Peter Tilden, and theatrical trailers.
So overall whether or not your a fan already of naked gun, or want to give it a try this is definatly worth getting, guaranteed laugh for all.
naked gun
Review date: 2004-11-04 Rating: 10 out of 10
Well worth buying extremely funny well worth buying airoplane1and2 with it.
Leslie Nielsen is the best
Review date: 2004-07-24 Rating: 10 out of 10
This box set is one of the best things that ever happened to slapstick humour and humour in general. It's something wich cannot be done again (although it has been tried). Leslie shows why he is one of the best comedy actors in the world ,together with Jim Carrey of course. It's certainly worth 5 stars just for the price alone.
The Naked Gun Collection - Agonising Side Splitting Comedy
Review date: 2004-07-11 Rating: 10 out of 10
After watching Naked Gun for the first time yesterday, I think that this is one of the best films I have ever seen. Their is always something funny going on in the background, good puns, and good plain humour. 5*****+
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Leslie Nielsen
Priscilla Presley
George Kennedy
Ricardo Montalban
O.J. Simpson
Creators:
Leslie Nielsen (Primary Contributor)
Priscilla Presley (Primary Contributor)
Director(s):
Recording label: Paramount Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
EAN: 5014437811936
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 3
Format: Box set, PAL,
Release date: 2001-11-05
Audience rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 241 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1988
Language: English (Original Language)